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Ruling party official hopes EU will make “fair decision this time around” on Georgia’s membership bid

The party official added he wanted to “believe that the decision in December will be fair, and the Georgian people, [and] our state, will not be left mistreated” in the decision on the status. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall

Agenda.ge, 22 Jun 2023 - 14:03, Tbilisi,Georgia

Kakha Kaladze, the Secretary General of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Thursday said he hoped the European Union would make a “fair decision this time around” on whether to grant its membership candidate status to Georgia.

“I want to believe that at this stage, [and] this time around, a fair decision will be made, because Georgia is doing everything on this difficult path of European integration”, the official said.

[I]f we [as a country] have achieved any success [on European integration], it is all related to the period after 2012 [when the Georgian Dream party came into power] - all successful steps are related to this period”, Kaladze added.

“We also heard statements in Europe regarding the fact that Georgia really deserved the [membership candidate] status, and the decision that had been made was unfair”, he noted in reference to the European Council’s decision on only granting a European perspective to the country last year.

The party official added he wanted to “believe that the decision in December will be fair, and the Georgian people, [and] our state, will not be left mistreated” in the decision on the status.

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