Polish FM: we would like Georgia to become EU membership candidate
Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau on Monday said his country’s Government supported granting the European Union membership candidate status to Georgia. Photo: Twitter / Polska Ambassaden i Sverige
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Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau on Monday said his country’s Government supported granting the European Union membership candidate status to Georgia.
In his remarks at a press conference with his Swedish counterpart, Rau noted Poland and Sweden also supported the aspirations of Ukraine and Moldova to start negotiations on accession to the EU before the end of this year.
“We would also like Georgia to seize its chance and become a candidate country to join the bloc”, the top Polish diplomat said.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili hosted Paweł Herczyński, the Ambassador of the European Union, and ambassadors of member states of the bloc for a dinner on Monday.
If the European Union “unfairly rejects” Georgia’s application for receiving the bloc’s membership candidate status for the second year running, the decision will lead to “disappointment and scepticism” about the bloc in the domestic public, Kakha Kaladze, the Secretary General of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said on Monday.
Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the European Integration Committee of the Georgian Parliament, on Sunday said Georgia had already implemented most of the recommendations, outlined by the European Union last year for granting its membership candidate status and noted the country was expecting the bloc to “take a firm step” and grant Georgia the status based on “fair assessments”.
Steps taken by the Georgian Government on the country’s European integration path were discussed on Friday in a meeting between the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Pawel Herczynski, the European Union ambassador to Georgia, on Wednesday said he was “very glad” with an existing “intensive” dialogue between Georgian high officials and their counterparts from EU institutions and member states, in comments ahead of a meeting between the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Charles Michel, the President of the European Council.