Georgian PM attends opening event of EPC‘s first plenary session
The summit brings together the heads of 27 EU member countries and 17 partner states. The Georgian delegation includes Ilia Darchiashvili, the foreign minister and Revaz Javelidze, the head of government administration. Photo: Government administration
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Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili on Thursday attended the opening event of the first plenary session of the European Political Community in Prague.
The plenary session of the summit was opened by Petr Fiala, the prime minister of the Czech Republic, the country currently holding the presidency of the Council of the European Union, who addressed the leaders of participating states of the summit and discussed the “unifying efforts” to ensure peace and stability on the European continent.
Photo: Government administration
In his tweet Garibashvili said he was “grateful” to Georgia’s EU partners for offering an “important platform” to the country to discuss the “most pressing issues” on Georgia-EU common agenda.
Delighted to attend the plenary session of the EPC in ????????. Grateful to our ????????partners for offering an important platform to ???????? to discuss most pressing issues on ???????? -???????? common agenda. Confident that the new initiative will assist ???????? w/achieving progress on ????????accession path. pic.twitter.com/VVYRvNsl3t
— Irakli Garibashvili (@GharibashviliGe) October 6, 2022
The conversation also touched on the process of continuing the construction of the European family and the integration of the associated countries.
After the opening event, the leaders of the delegations participating in the summit took a joint photo. Photo: Government administration
The summit brings together the heads of 27 EU member countries and 17 partner states. The Georgian delegation includes Ilia Darchiashvili, the foreign minister and Revaz Javelidze, the head of government administration.
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Maka Botchorishvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament’s European Union integration committee, on Thursday said the participation of the country’s prime minister in the inaugural summit of the European political community was an “opportunity” to discuss the “important idea” over the creation of the “new European community”.
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