Georgian PM visits Brussels after submitting EU membership questionnaire

Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvili  is visiting Brussels shortly after the country submitted its answers to the EU questionnaire to gain the EU candidate country status.

 

“Delighted to commence my first Working Visit to Brussels after submitting the EU Self-Assessment Questionnaire. I will  conduct meetings with European counterparts and have an opportunity to discuss Georgia’s candidate status perspectives and tangible mechanisms for deepening our European agenda,” Garibashvili tweeted on Tuesday.

 

Georgian FM Ilia Darchiashvili is also in Brussels, holding meetings with his colleagues from the EU member states on the sidelines of the EU Foreign Affairs Council.

 

Georgia submitted the questionnaire last week which the country received on April 11, after Georgia officially applied for EU membership in early March.

 

The questionnaire was composed of more than 2,800 questions.

 

The EU will use the questionnaire to decide whether or not grant Geogia a candidate country status.

 

Garibashvili said that the answers were seven volumes.