Georgia and Armenia simplify visa-free travel, further deepening people-to-people relations -  Georgian FM

An agreement to further simplify the existing visa-free travel between Georgia and Armenia, which was signed today by the countries’ prime ministers Irakli Garibashvili and Nikol Pashinyan, will make it possible for their nationals to cross the border using identification cards and will further contribute to the deepening of people-to-people relations, Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili said on Thursday.

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Darchiashvili, who is part of the Georgian delegation led by Prime Minister Garibashvili, said the meeting of the Intergovernmental Economic Commission in Yerevan was an “important platform”, within which the sides had discussed the existing economic cooperation between the countries and identified the important issues to be addressed for the next meeting by taking “specific, effective steps”.

He highlighted the importance of holding “such types” of economic commission meetings between Georgia and Armenia, “greatly” promoting “more effective” cooperation between the relevant ministries and achieving “concrete and tangible results” for their two countries.