Georgian Parliament Committee Chair reviews EU integration with European Parliament officials
The agenda of Georgia’s integration into the bloc within the enlargement policy and the importance of the country in Europe’s geopolitical perspective were reviewed at the meetings, with the parties also referring to the upcoming general elections in Georgia. Photo via Parliament of Georgia
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Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the European Integration Committee of the Georgian Parliament and her Deputy Levan Karumidze discussed the country’s European integration with the European Parliament officials in Strasbourg, the Parliament press office said on Sunday.
Within the framework of the EP’s plenary session, the Georgian officials met with MEPs from all political groups, including the co-chair of the Georgia-EU Parliamentary Committee, the European Parliament's Rapporteur on Georgia, and members of the Foreign Affairs Committee.
The agenda of Georgia’s integration into the bloc within the enlargement policy and the importance of the country in Europe’s geopolitical perspective were reviewed at the meetings, with the parties also referring to the upcoming general elections in Georgia.
Two reports on the EU common foreign security policy and defence were prepared in the European Parliament, which envisage the support for Georgia’s European integration and “strongly condemn” Russia’s ongoing occupation of Georgia’s Abkhazia and Tskhivali (South Ossetia) regions.
Within the scope of the visit to Strasbourg, more than 17 meetings were held in the European Parliament, in which Vakhtang Makharoblishvili, Georgia's Ambassador to the EU, also participated.
Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the European Integration Committee of the Georgian Parliament, on Saturday said the Government desired to have “very constructive and good relations” with the European Parliament and all European Union institutions, as it was “necessary” for Georgia’s integration into the bloc.
Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the Parliament's European Integration Committee, on Tuesday highlighted the visit of a Georgian parliamentary delegation to the European Parliament in Strasbourg by saying it was “important to discuss the progress” of the country on its European integration path.
Paweł Herczyński, the Ambassador of the European Union to Georgia, on Friday said it was “really impressive” that the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze had selected Brussels as the destination of his first foreign visit this week.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Friday said his visit to Brussels this week had “made it possible to discuss all points” around the work for meeting the priorities outlined by the European Commission for opening accession talks with the country.
Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the European Integration Committee of the Georgian Parliament, on Monday said there were “opportunities” for a “gradual integration” of Georgia into the European Union.
Irakli Beraia, the Chair of the Defence and Security Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, on Monday said the ongoing war in Ukraine was a “continuation” of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Georgia in 2008 and a “result of the failure of the international community” to “hold the aggressor accountable” at that time.
Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the Georgian Parliament's European Integration Committee, on Monday said the European Union’s accession talks with “all candidate countries” should start “immediately” to ensure “success” of the bloc’s enlargement policy.
Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the Georgian Parliament's European Integration Committee, on Tuesday reviewed Georgia-European Union cooperation and the role of the bloc in “ensuring peace and stability” in the country at the Inter-Parliamentary Conference for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Common Security and Defence Policy in Bruges.