Parliament EU Committee Chair: Eastern Partnership ministers call for Georgia’s European perspective implementation “as quickly as possible”
She noted challenges in the South Caucasus region as a result of Russia's “aggressive policy”, and spoke about the future of the Eastern Partnership, the Georgian Parliament’s press office said. Parliament of Georgia press office.
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Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the Georgian Parliament's European Union Integration Committee, on Monday said “most” of the foreign ministers at the EU’s Eastern Partnership meeting on Monday had “emphasised” that the European perspectives of Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova should be implemented “as quickly as possible” within the framework of the bloc’s enlargement policy.
"Of course, we know that the process [of the country’s European integration] is related to [domestic] reforms and [EU’s] expansion policy. Therefore, the political support that we heard today is important. Unambiguously, the ministers emphasise today the importance of the political decision that was made in June regarding the expansion", Botchorishvili added.
The Georgian official addressed representatives of EU institutions, ministers of foreign affairs of member states and Eastern Partnership countries in Brussels, in the capacity of the co-president of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly.
The #EaPMinisterial is taking place in difficult times. Discussions on the #EaP are timely and vital for the #futureofEurope. ????????’s brutal aggression against????????made it clear that European #security is impossible to ensure without #peace and #security in its Eastern neighborhood. pic.twitter.com/Va7K6tTIKK
— Maka Botchorishvili (@MakaB__) December 12, 2022
She noted challenges in the South Caucasus region as a result of Russia's “aggressive policy”, and spoke about the future of the Eastern Partnership, the Georgian Parliament’s press office said.
Botchorishvili featured in the ministerial at the invitation of Josep Borell, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Oliver Varhelyi, the European Union Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement.
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