Georgian PM discusses “strategic ties”, “dynamically developing” relations with UK Under Secretary of State
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday hosted Sir Philip Robert Barton, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK. Photo: Government press office
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday discussed “strategic partnership” and “dynamically developing relations” with the United Kingdom while hosting Sir Philip Robert Barton, the Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office of the UK.
The meeting at the PM’s Tbilisi office also reviewed the Wardrop Strategic Dialogue format between Georgia and the UK that covers the partnership cooperation between the two states and ways of further strengthening them, the Government Administration said.
Garibashvili thanked the visiting official for his Government's ”firm support” for Georgia's sovereignty, territorial integrity and its non-recognition policy of the Russian-occupied regions of the country, as well as for its “important contribution” to strengthening its state institutions.
The officials also reviewed security challenges sparked by the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili and Jonathan Djanogly, the Chair of the United Kingdom All-Party Parliamentary Group on Georgia on Thursday discussed the “strong” inter-parliamentary relations between the two countries and the support of the British Parliament demonstrated to Georgia.
Strategic partnership between Georgia and the United Kingdom and “intensive” bilateral and multilateral cooperation involving the sides were discussed on Thursday in a meeting between the Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili and his British counterpart James Cleverly.
A meeting between the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and the British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly on Friday highlighted the “strategic partnership” between the states and the existing “high-level” political dialogue, the Government Administration said.
The United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly will meet Georgian officials and civil society groups during his official visit to the country on Thursday and Friday, the Georgian foreign service said.
The United Kingdom has tightened transit flight rules for citizens of Georgia and over 100 other states with a requirement to obtain a Direct Airside Transit Visa, the Georgian foreign office said on Wednesday.