Head of Georgian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee participates in international conference Forum 2000
Along with Samkharadze, the representatives of Ukraine, Moldova and the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations took part in the discussions. Photo: Parliament of Georgia.
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Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Georgian Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee Chair on Thursday participated in the panel of the international conference Forum 2000 in Prague.
Samkharadze spoke about the importance of the Eastern Partnership for the countries that have “chosen the path” of European Union membership and noted that the Eastern Partnership “needed” to be reviewed with new ideas and approaches, as Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova had already been granted European Perspective of membership by the European Council, the press office of Georgian Parliament said.
He also stressed that Georgia had considered the Association Agreement and the 12-point conditions outlined by the European Council for granting the country candidate status as the “main platform” and added that the Eastern Partnership format had lost its relevance, however, it remained important for EU to have relations with various states, including Armenia and Azerbaijan in the South Caucasus region.
Along with Samkharadze, the representatives of Ukraine, Moldova and the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations took part in the discussions.
The ways of enhancing the strategic partnership between Georgia and Ukraine were discussed on Wednesday in a meeting between the Georgian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Nikoloz Samkharadze and his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksandr Merezhko.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Monday criticised the move of three Parliamentary opposition parties to boycott a working group initiated by GD for joint work for the country’s European Union membership candidate status and instead launch a separate format last week.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Georgian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Chair, was elected as the Chair of the Democracy and Human Rights Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe on Tuesday.
Georgia has made the most progress among Eastern Partnership states in implementing the Association Agreement signed with the European Union, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told reporters in the central Georgian city of Gori on Saturday.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Georgian parliament's foreign affairs committee chair, on Wednesday reviewed the “difficult situation” in the Russian-occupied regions of Georgia and Russia's “provocative actions” on the sidelines of the Warsaw Security Forum.
Relations between Georgia and Poland, European perspective for Georgia and security issues in the Black Sea region were discussed on Tuesday in a meeting between a delegation of the Georgian parliament's foreign affairs committee and the Polish deputy foreign minister Marcin Przydacz.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Georgian Parliament, on Tuesday said a delegation from the lawmaking body had “practically received guarantees” from Italian and Maltese “top officials” of their backing for granting the European Union membership candidate status to Georgia in December.
The Committee of Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions in the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly on Monday accepted a section on violations in Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions in the Assembly’s annual resolution.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Georgian Parliament, on Wednesday addressed the 44th Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Jakarta, Indonesia, to highlight his country’s “strategic location”, democratic reforms and pledge sharing of legislative experience.
Future cooperation between Georgia and East Asian countries was discussed on Thursday in a meeting between a Georgian Parliamentary delegation and the officials from member states of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.