Georgian FM to hold “high-level” meetings in Portugal visit
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili will be in Portugal on a working visit from Thursday to Friday to hold “high-level” meetings with officials of the country’s Government. Photo: MFA of Georgia
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Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili will be in Portugal on a working visit from Thursday to Friday to hold “high-level” meetings with officials of the country’s Government.
In the framework of his visit, Darchiashvili will meet with his Portuguese counterpart, the President of the National Assembly and the State Secretary for European Affairs, the Georgian foreign office said.
The top Georgian diplomat will also have discussions with chairpersons of the National Assembly's Foreign Relations and European Affairs committees and the Executive Secretary of the Commonwealth of Portuguese Speaking Countries.
Gert Jan Koopman, the head of the Directorate-General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Commission, on Wednesday said the Commission welcomed the Georgian Government’s “keen interest” in making “further progress” on the bloc’s conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status later this year.
Oliver Varhelyi, the European Union Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, on Wednesday said the Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili had assured him the country’s progress in its implementation of the priorities outlined by the bloc for granting it the membership candidate status was “well on track”.
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