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.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Friday said he hoped the country’s European partners would consider the results of its implementation of the European Union conditions for granting it the membership candidate status, after the release of a European Commission report that noted its progress in the work.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Friday responded to the newly published European Commission report on the country’s alignment with the European Union by stressing the document had “once again demonstrated” his country deserved the membership candidate status as a “top reformer”.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Friday said the European Commission’s new report on Georgia had revealed that under an “objective decision” the country should “definitely” receive a European Union membership candidate status this year.
Pawel Herczynski, the European Union Ambassador to Georgia, on Friday congratulated the country’s Government on a “positive report” on Georgia’s alignment with the European Union, released by the European Commission on Thursday.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Monday said the European Commission's latest report on Georgia showed the country should have received the European Union membership candidate status last year.
Irakli Kadagishvili, the Chair of the Rules and Procedural Issues Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, on Tuesday said the legislative body would focus on facilitating implementation of the European Union conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status in its spring sessions.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Spanish Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska on Thursday praised the “high-level-dialogue” between the countries “in a number of directions” in a Tbilisi meeting.
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Obtaining the European Union membership candidate status for Georgia is a goal that has “no alternative” for the country, President Salome Zourabichvili said on Monday in a press briefing in Vilnius with her Lithuanian counterpart Gitanas Nausėda.