TBILISI, DFWatch–The prime ministers of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine on Wednesday met with Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel in Germany.
“We would like people to know that which road to choose, and our meeting today is held exactly for this [purpose],”
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has transferred the right to sign an Association Agreement with EU to the prime minister for him to sign.
Who will sign the AA has been a subject of debate the last few weeks.
Government officials have
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili maintains that he should sign Georgia’s association agreement with the EU, but says he wants to avoid a dispute about the issue.
Shalva Tadumadze, parliamentary secretary of the government, said Friday
TBILISI, DFWatch–When Georgia signs an association agreement with the European Union in late June, it will be Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili who will do the signing.
This is despite it clearly being stated in the constitution that the president is the one who signs
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Association Agreement with the EU will be signed by the prime minister, although he is not the head of state.
In all of EU’s 28 member states, the Association Agreement with Georgia will be signed by the head of state, which usually
TBILILSI, DFWatch–Georgia will sign an association agreement with the EU on June 27.
Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili announced the date at a meeting with Herman Van Rompuy, President of the European Council.
“We received confirmation that Georgia will sign the
TBILISI, DFWatch–French President Francois Hollande arrived in Tbilisi Tuesday at midday.
Hollande’s visit is the last stop of a tour of the South Caucasus. He was arriving from Armenia where he spent Monday, and before that Azerbaijan on Sunday.
Arriving
TBILISI, DFWatch–Clerics in Georgia don’t want a Europe where ‘homosexuality is legalized,’ and call on parliament to not pass an anti-discrimination law required for the signing of an association agreement with the EU.
The Georgian parliament has two more
TBILISI, DFWatch–Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier says Georgia’s Association Agreement with the EU is not a threat to Russia-Georgia relations.
Steinmeier, who is visiting Georgia with his French colleague Laurent Fabius, said at a press
TBILISI, DFWatch–The foreign ministers of Germany and France will visit Georgia on April 23-24.
Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany and France’s Laurent Fabius were originally to have visited Georgia on March 3, but they both postponed due to events in Ukraine.