Georgian PM participates in EPC thematic discussion with European leaders
The conversation touched on Georgia, with the country’s PM discussing the importance of granting Georgia the European Union membership candidate status and reviewing the security challenges in the region. Photo via Government Administration
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, together with European leaders, on Thursday participated in the thematic discussion on Security, held in a round table format on the sidelines of the European Political Community Summit.
The thematic discussion, co-chaired by British and Polish prime ministers Rishi Sunak and Mateusz Morawiecki, discussed the steps and efforts needed to ensure peace and stability in Europe.
The conversation touched on Georgia, with the country’s PM discussing the importance of granting Georgia the European Union membership candidate status and reviewing the security challenges in the region, the Government Administration said.
Roberta Metsola, the President of the European Parliament, Karl Nehammer, the Chancellor of Austria, Gitanas Nausėda, the President of Lithuania and prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Slovakia and Sweden, Petr Fiala, Xavier Bettel, Ľudovít Ódor and Ulf Kristersson, as well as the President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani, were among participants of the discussion.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said “all this dirty campaign” conducted against Georgia to damage the image of the country ended with the “fair” ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, which rejected the imprisoned former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s request to be transferred to Poland for treatment.
The Georgian Government’s main task is to unite Georgia with peace, stability and the perspective of prosperity, the country’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Thursday in his press comments after the European Political Community Summit in Chișinău.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Thursday wished Ukraine peace, ending the ongoing war soon and reconciliation of the country, in his comments to the media after the European Political Community Summit in Chișinău.
The “only correct political decision” in “this difficult geopolitical” situation will be to grant Georgia European Union membership candidate status, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told the European leaders on Thursday at the European Political Community Summit in Moldova’s capital city of Chișinău. He noted his colleagues agreed that not granting the status to the country would be “another injustice and a big strategic mistake”.
Trade and economic aspects of the cooperation between Georgia and Hungary were discussed on Friday between the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Zsolt Semjén, the Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary.
Economic cooperation between Georgia and Azerbaijan and their existing “strategic partnership” were discussed on Friday between the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Mikayil Jabbarov, the Minister of the Economy of Azerbaijan.