Georgian FM anticipating “very open” strategic partnership conversation with Ukrainian counterpart
The Georgian Minister and his Ukrainian and Moldovan counterparts, Dmytro Kuleba and Nicu Popescu, will also participate in a discussion on the European outlook for the Associated Trio and the future of the EU’s Eastern Partnership. Photo: MFA of Georgia
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Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Wednesday said he would have a “very open and very specific” conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba about how the two countries can “strengthen bilateral cooperation and strategic partnership”.
Darchiashvili will participate on Wednesday in a two-day informal Gymnich format meeting of European Union foreign ministers in the Czech capital of Prague.
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— Ilia Darchiashvili (@iliadarch) August 31, 2022
The Georgian Minister and his Ukrainian and Moldovan counterparts, Dmytro Kuleba and Nicu Popescu, will also participate in a discussion on the European outlook for the Associated Trio and the future of the EU’s Eastern Partnership.
A meeting is scheduled with my Ukrainian counterpart, with whom I have had constant communication. [...] We will have a very open and very specific conversation about how the two countries can strengthen their bilateral cooperation [and] strategic partnership, and I am sure that this meeting will be a very important step in further deepening and strengthening our bilateral relations”, the top Georgian diplomat said.
Darchiashvili also added he would have meetings with European partners within the framework of the event.
We will have the opportunity to discuss, on the one hand, bilateral cooperation and, on the other hand, our European integration and support of individual member states in the process of this integration, which I think is important”, he concluded in his comments.
Ilia Darchiashvili, the Georgian Foreign Minister will participate on Tuesday and Wednesday in a two-day informal Gymnich format meeting of the European Union foreign ministers in Czech Republic capital city of Prague, discussing the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the suspension of visa liberalisation for Russian citizens with foreign ministers of the 27 EU member states.
Georgia on Wednesday joined a joint statement of over 50 countries at the United Nations that called on Russia to immediately cease hostilities in Ukraine and withdraw its forces and military equipment from the territory of the country.
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