Visa-free travel with EU opportunity for “major steps” on European integration path - Georgia’s FM
Zalkaliani also called the visa-free travel for Georgian nationals - in place since 2017 - an opportunity for “taking major steps forward” on the path of the country’s European integration. Photo: MFA of Georgia
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The visa-free travel with the European Union is a “wonderful opportunity for enhancing people-to-people contacts”, Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani tweeted on Monday on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the agreement with the EU.
Zalkaliani also called the visa-free travel for Georgian nationals - in place since 2017 - an opportunity for “taking major steps forward” on the path of the country’s European integration.
For already 5 years Georgian citizens have been enjoying #visafree travel ✈ to the EU. Visa-free regime is a wonderful opportunity for enhancing people to people contacts and taking major steps forward on the path of the European integration ???????????????????? pic.twitter.com/mOvDmFBeXt
— David Zalkaliani (@DZalkaliani) March 28, 2022
Earlier today, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said Georgia’s Government had done “a lot of work” to achieve visa-free travel with the EU for its citizens.
Garibashvili expressed gratitude to “everyone who has contributed to achieving” abolition of the visa requirement for EU travel in 2017.
The Government head noted Georgian nationals had paid over 1.5 million visits to countries of the Union since, calling the figure a “concrete, tangible result after the signing of [Georgia’s] [2014] Association Agreement with the EU.”