Parliament committee chair: “important” to have “intensive relationship” with European partners
Botchorishvili noted the Georgian government’s goal was to have relations with “capitals of all EU member states” to help them “understand the country’s positions well”. Photo: Parliament of Georgia
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Maka Botchorishvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament’s European Union integration committee, on Thursday said it was “important” to have an “intensive relationship” with the country’s European partners and “discuss all challenges” facing the country with them.
Botchorishvili noted the Georgian government’s goal was to have relations with “capitals of all EU member states” to help them “understand the country’s positions well”.
“Based on the geopolitical reality that exists in our region, it is important to have an intensive relationship with our [European] partners and discuss all the challenges facing Georgia and our expectations with the European Union in light of this challenge”, the Parliament official said.
Our goal is to have a relationship with the capitals of all EU member states, and for them to understand our positions, our perceptions, as well as what we are doing to fulfil the recommendations of the European Commission and also what our expectations are”, she said in reference to the Commission’s conditions for Georgia to receive the EU membership candidate status.
On June 24, the European Council granted the membership candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova, and said it would be ready to grant the same status to Georgia once the outstanding priorities outlined by the European Commission would be addressed by the Georgian government.
Thomas Mühlmann, the ambassador of Austria to Georgia, on Thursday said he was confident that if both the government and the opposition in Georgia worked together for fulfilling conditions for European Union membership candidate status, the objective would be successfully accomplished.
Peter Fischer, the German ambassador to Georgia, on Wednesday said the process of the country implementing the European Union conditions for receiving the membership candidate status should be “inclusive, democratic and pluralistic”.
Maka Botchorishvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament’s European Union integration committee, on Thursday said European partners “unequivocally” supported the idea of the country’s integration into the European Union and a successful implementation of EU conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status.
Maka Botchorishvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament’s European Union integration committee, on Tuesday said the “ultimate goal” of the Georgian authorities was to see the country join the EU, and the “most important” thing was to make “rapid progress” on this path.
Dimitris Avramopoulos, the former EU commissioner for migration, home affairs and citizenship, on Friday said Georgia’s future was related to the European perspective and the “European family”.
Georgia’s European Union integration progress and the country’s implementation of the EU recommendations for granting it the membership candidate status were discussed on Monday in a meeting between Maka Botchorishvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament’s EU integration committee, and a delegation of the national security and defence committee of the Lithuanian parliament.
Existing threats and challenges in the Black Sea region on the backdrop of a “deteriorating security environment” were discussed on Monday in a meeting between the Georgian defence minister Juansher Burchuladze and Pawel Herczynski, the European Union ambassador to Georgia.