TBILISI, DFWatch – According to National Security Council Secretary Giga Bokeria ‘Georgia appeared as sensible and flexible partner of the civilized world’ during WTO current negotiations.

He made this statement on December 2 on the united session of the foreign relations, Europe integration and diaspora relations committees in parliament.

According to him, Russia’s WTO membership will bring positive results for the EU and the United States, and those are Georgia’s main trading partners in the whole civilized world in economic regard. ‘Georgia will benefit in this way too,’ Bokeria says.

According to him, during the negotiations the main thing was that Russia was precented from presenting Georgia as troublemaker and a party which doesn’t seek solutions and creates problems for the EU and other partners. Bokeria says effective diplomatic efforts were important to secure that the Russian Federation agreed to having international monitoring of the border, which was unacceptable to them before.

“This was a key moment and it caused a strange period of hesitation for our northern neighbor,” Bokeria claimed and added that as a result of this process Georgia got what has been part its long-term national interests.

According to him, Georgia behaved as a sensible and flexible partner of the civilized world, which seeks for a solution that protects its national interests.