Georgian President: European Commission’s “positive” report on country’s EU alignment “very important”
President Salome Zourabichvili said the European Commission “positive report” was expected to benefit the country’s European integration aspirations. Photo: President’s press office
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Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili on Friday said the European Commission’s “positive” assessment of the country’s alignment with the European Union framework was “very important”, following the publication of the report that evaluated the progress of Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova in their work for membership in the bloc.
Zourabichvili said the document gave “more importance” to the Government’s ongoing efforts to meet the EU conditions for the membership candidate status “as soon as possible”.
???????? welcomes @EU_Commission 's positive assessment of Georgia's progress on its European path.
— Salome Zourabichvili (@Zourabichvili_S) February 3, 2023
Together with the fulfillment of the Commission's 12 recommendations, it will be a major step toward the candidate status and our alignment with the EU acquis.
The European Commission's 57-page analytical report on Georgia, released on Thursday, focused on the country’s alignment of EU laws in 33 chapters following the country’s application for membership last year.
Responding to the report, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said the document had “once again demonstrated” his country deserved the membership candidate status as a “top reformer”, following the congratulations of the EU Ambassador Pawel Herczynski on the “very positive” report.
Georgia applied for EU membership in March 2022, shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and was granted a European perspective by the European Council in June, along with priorities to address for gaining the bloc’s candidate status.