Our governance has accomplished all the possible milestone achievements that could have been made in essence in the journey of EU integration in the last 10 years. Such a statement the Prime Minister of Georgia made at a joint press-conference with Austrian Federal Chancellor.

“Our governance has accomplished all the possible milestone achievements that could have been made in essence in the journey of EU integration in the last 10 years. I am referring to the signing of an EU-Georgia Association Agreement (AA), Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) concluded with Europe, visa-free travel arrangement and now this historic decision announced last June. It clearly validated the European Perspective of our country. I wish to once again thank Austria – our friendly nation – and the Federal Chancellor himself for this. We highly value Austrian support towards the territorial integrity and sovereignty of our country. Same applies now to our European aspirations. We understand it rather well that certain criteria and requirements exist for us to meet. We have fully conceptualized that. It is our responsibility. Our entire team in governance is working with this responsibility, this spirit.

We are delivering on the recommendations that were communicated and advised to Georgia. From the outset, we started to work actively on this topic. Parliament of Georgia worked hard towards this end, on this road, together with the Government. Majority of recommendations have already been met. A few remain pending. Our deliverables have been sent to the Venice Commission. Of course, engagement of the opposition is essential as the first recommendation is about a need to reduce or to be more precise – to end – polarization. It cannot be delivered without a collaboration with the opposition. Our position on this is as follows: we have always been and remain ready to open doors to them, to keep a constant dialogue and this dialogue to remain within a constructive framework”, - said Irakli Garibashvili.