Parliament official: learning EU attitudes on Georgia joining bloc “important”
Maka Botchorishvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament's European Union integration committee, on Friday said it was “important” to know the processes and attitudes in the European Union towards the prospects of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine joining the bloc. Photo: Parliament of Georgia
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Maka Botchorishvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament's European Union integration committee, on Friday said it was “important” to know the processes and attitudes in the European Union towards the prospects of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine joining the bloc.
Botchorishvili, who is on a visit to Prague with a parliamentary delegation, made the remark in comments on meetings held with officials in capitals of EU member states with the goal of providing Georgia’s partners with information on the implementation of the EU conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status.
The Czech Republic is holding the EU presidency until the end of the year, and intensive consultations with Czech counterparts are important. We should provide information to our partners on how Georgia is fulfilling the EU conditions, and the EU member states should have a complete picture of the political processes taking place in the country, which would give them the opportunity to make objective assessments”, the parliament official.
“We are talking to our counterparts in the Czech parliament [and] representatives of the executive power about the progress achieved by Georgia. It is also important for us to know what processes are taking place in the European Union and what is the attitude towards Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine when it comes to the prospects of joining the European Union”, she noted.
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.
Irakli Chikovani, an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Friday said the “absolute majority” of conditions outlined by the European Union for granting the country the membership candidate status would be implemented by December.
Maka Botchorishvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament’s European Union integration committee, on Friday said it was “important” that European counterparts were informed about what the Georgian government was doing to fulfil European Union conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status.
Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Georgian parliament's foreign affairs committee chair, on Friday said the domestic opposition should become engaged in working groups for meeting European Union conditions for granting Georgia the membership candidate status “if they want a European future” for the country.
Frank Schwabe, a member of the German Bundestag, on Monday said Georgia was a “part of Europe” and added his country supported European integration aspirations of the former.
Mikheil Sarjveladze, the chair of the Georgian parliament's committee on human rights, on Monday said “certain opposition groups” were aiming to jeopardise the implementation of “any” of the European Union conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status.
Maka Botchorishvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament's European Union integration committee, on Monday said the European perspective, granted by the European Council to Georgia in June, was “truly a huge step forward” in terms of the country’s accession to the European Union.
Maka Botchorishvili, the chair of the Georgian parliament's European Union integration committee, on Tuesday said the progress made by Georgian authorities on the country’s European integration path was “tangible and undeniable”, adding the country had proven it was a “reliable partner” of the EU.
Maka Botchorishvili, the Head of the European Integration Committee in the Georgian Parliament, on Monday said it was “important” for the country to have “adequate expectations” on the European Union’s upcoming decision on granting it the membership candidate status, following her meeting with EU Ambassador to Georgia Pawel Herczynski.