Georgian people would not understand “another refusal” of EU candidacy - President
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili on Friday met with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Tbilisi. Photo: Salome Zourabichvili’s Twitter
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Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili on Friday said the country’s people would not understand “another refusal” from the European Union to grant Georgia its membership candidate status later this year.
Zourabichvili tweeted following her meeting with the visiting German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock to say Tbilisi was working to meet the conditions outlined by the bloc last year for granting it the status.
I thank @ABaerbock for coming to Georgia and for ????????'s continuous support for ????????’s independence & its unwavering European path.
— Salome Zourabichvili (@Zourabichvili_S) March 24, 2023
???????? continues to work towards receiving the ???????? candidate status. The Georgian people cannot understand another refusal & disappointment.
???????? counts on ???????? pic.twitter.com/YQoOfmpgHN
She also said Georgia was “counting on” German support on its European integration path, while noting the “disappointment” that could follow a second rejection of the status for the country.
Georgia officially applied for EU membership on March 3, 2022, shortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, and was granted a European perspective unlike Ukraine and Moldova, who both received the candidate status with conditions.
Despite calling the bloc’s decision “historic”, the Georgian Dream authorities have also lamented it as “unfair”, and stressed they expect a “merit-based” solution on the status by the end of 2023.