The importance of Austria’s support for Georgia on the latter’s European and Euro-Atlantic integration path, and a further deepening of the partnership between the two states were discussed by Prime Minister and the Austrian Chancellor in a phone call.

Irakli Garibashvili and Karl Nehammer exchanged views and information on the security environment in the Eastern European and the war in Ukraine. The Head of the Government said that Georgia continued to provide both humanitarian and political support to Ukraine, at both bilateral and multilateral levels.

He also said that Georgian Government had received a self-assessment questionnaire from the European Commission for the status of an EU candidate country, and that the questionnaire would be delivered to the EU next month.

The Prime Minister thanked the Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria for his unwavering support for Georgia’s European integration, sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Karl Nehammer has invited Irakli Garibashvili to pay an official visit to Austria.