Georgian, Romanian FMs discuss bilateral relations, European integration
Aurescu once again expressed his country’s “strong support” for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia, while Darchiashvili invited him to visit the country. Photo via Foreign Ministry
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The current agenda of bilateral relations between Georgia and Romania was discussed on Saturday by the countries’ foreign ministers Ilia Darchiashvili and Bogdan Aurescu.
In a meeting held within the frame of the ongoing Munich Security Conference, the officials focused on Georgia’s European and Euro-Atlantic integration, the Foreign Ministry said.
At the meeting with my Romanian colleague @BogdanAurescu, we exchanged views on the importance of enhancing ???????????????? strategic partnership and agreed to intensify high-level visits. I also highlighted the significance of Romania's support for Georgia on its way to the ???????? membership. pic.twitter.com/dnON2XTnrf
— Ilia Darchiashvili (@iliadarch) February 18, 2023
The ministers welcomed the “strategic document” on the Black Sea submarine electricity cable project, signed by the high officials of Georgia and Romania, along with Azerbaijan and Hungary in December, and agreed to “actively work” on the relevant action plan for the implementation of the deal.
They also exchanged views on the significance of the quadrilateral agreement signed [in Romania] and on further steps planned in this direction.
Glad to meet again with FM @iliadarch to discuss developments&future perspectives under ????????-???????? #StrategicPartnership. Welcomed joint efforts to enhance regional resilience&stability in #SouthCaucasus. Reaffirmed RO’s full support for GE’s European & Euro-Atlantic aspirations. pic.twitter.com/GyNoSjRyIN
— Bogdan Aurescu (@BogdanAurescu) February 17, 2023
Aurescu once again expressed his country’s “strong support” for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia, while Darchiashvili invited him to visit the country.
The high officials of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Romania and Hungary on Saturday signed an Agreement on the Black Sea Submarine Electricity Cable project in Bucharest, to export green energy to Europe via Georgia.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Saturday said the country’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili would highlight Georgia’s intention to play an “important part” of European energy security in the diversification process of energy resources supply to Europe at the Munich Security Conference panel discussion today.
Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili, who is on her first official visit to Romania, is set to sign a declaration on the establishment of strategic relations with the country, Nikoloz Nikolozishvili, the Georgian ambassador to Romania, said on Tuesday.
The Black Sea strategic submarine electricity cable between Georgia and the European Union will be a “window of new opportunities”, which will turn the country into an electricity hub and improve the internal energy market, the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Saturday at the signing ceremony of the Agreement on Strategic Partnership in the field of Green Energy Development and Transmission between Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania and Hungary.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Saturday discussed the country’s European integration agenda, as well as global challenges, at the meetings with his Finnish, French and Brazilian counterparts, held on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, the Georgian Foreign Ministry said.
The Euronest Parliamentary Assembly, a body formed as part of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership programme, on Tuesday adopted a resolution supporting the accession of Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova to the EU.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili will participate in a special session of the United Nations General Assembly on the anniversary of the war in Ukraine, the Georgian foreign service said.
Romanian members of the Parliament on Wednesday expressed their support for Georgia's accession to the European Union and pledged to “actively” support the country in the process in their meeting with a Georgian Parliamentary delegation headed by Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the Parliament’s EU Integration Committee.
Ilia Darchiashvili, the Georgian Foreign Minister, on Wednesday said the ongoing visit of Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian Prime Minister, to Georgia expressed the country’s “strong support” for Georgia’s European integration ahead of the bloc’s forthcoming decision on Tbilisi’s candidate status later this year.
Irakli Chikovani, the newly appointed Minister of Defence of Georgia, on Wednesday met Răzvan Rotundu, the Romanian Ambassador to the country, to discuss the importance of strategic partnership between the two states and “successful bilateral” cooperation in defence.