Georgian FM reviews Govt’s work for EU candidacy with bloc’s Economic Commissioner
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Tuesday met Paolo Gentiloni, the European Commissioner for Economic Affairs. Photo: MFA Georgia
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Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Tuesday discussed his Government's efforts to meet the European Union’s conditions for granting Tbilisi its membership candidate status with Paolo Gentiloni, the European Commissioner for Economic Affairs, as part of his Strasbourg trip.
Darchiashvili said he hoped the implemented reforms would be “properly evaluated” by the bloc in December and the country would be granted the status, the Georgian foreign office said.
He also noted the reforms were being carried out in “close cooperation” with EU structures and while considering the opinions of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights.
The meeting also highlighted the importance of the 2014 Deep and Comprehensive Free Area Deal with the EU and its importance for the development of the business sector of Georgia, the press office added.
The parties also emphasised the need for the country's sectoral integration with the bloc and its full integration into the European single market.
Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the Georgian Parliament's European Union Integration Committee, on Monday said the European Union should “not delay making important political decisions” to “create a solid basis for enlarging space of peace, security, and prosperity”.
Sheraz Gasri, the French Ambassador to Georgia, and Peter Fischer, the German Ambassador to the country, on Friday said the European Union would continue to stand by Georgia as the country “progresses towards the candidate status and the EU membership”.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Thursday reviewed cooperation and the country’s European integration in meetings with his Finnish, Irish and Italian counterparts on the sidelines of the European Conference of Presidents of Parliament in Dublin.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Tuesday said his Government had achieved “specific and tangible” results in fulfilling the priorities set by the European Commission for granting the country the European Union membership candidate status.
Consultations on European integration are underway in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi between the deputy ministers of foreign and European affairs of Georgia and the countries of the Western Balkans, the Georgian foreign office said on Tuesday.
Georgia's progress in implementing the European Union’s conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status was discussed on Tuesday in a meeting between the Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili and Didier Reynders, the EU Commissioner for Justice.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili and Dubravka Šuica, the Vice-President of the European Commission, on Tuesday discussed the country’s progress on fulfilling the 12 priorities outlined by the bloc to grant its candidate membership status to the country.
Cooperation between the Georgian Government and the Council of Europe, the situation in the Russian-occupied territories of the country and its European integration were discussed on Wednesday in a meeting between the Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili and Marija Pejčinović Burić, the Secretary General of the CoE.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Friday urged members of domestic opposition groups to refrain from making “false allegations over failed reforms” and hampering the country’s work to obtain the European Union membership candidate status later this year, an objective he called “vitally important”.
A Memorandum on Cooperation between the Georgian Parliament and the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum’s National Platform was signed on Friday by Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili and the Chair of the Platform Nino Chkhobadze, with the move aimed at fulfilling the 10th paragraph of the European Union recommendations outlined for the country to receive membership candidate status.