The Speaker, Shalva Papuashvili held a meeting with the members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate of the Kingdom of Spain. At the meeting, the close cooperation between Georgia-Spain was positively estimated.
The Speaker expressed his gratitude to Spain for supporting the territorial integrity and European aspirations of Georgia.
“We highly appreciate the assistance and support of Spain in terms of the facilitation of our territorial integrity and the non-recognition policy. The support of Spain is expressed not only in words but in deeds by its participating in the EU Monitoring Mission,” Speaker Papuashvili noted, going on to talk about Georgia’s progress in compliance with the EU recommendations and stating his hope that the Parliament will be able to fulfill all the recommendations within the spring session.
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Antonio Gutiérrez Limones noted that the Spanish Delegation is composed of members of various political groups, and all of them strongly support EU candidacy for Georgia.
“When Spain is assigned the EU presidency in the second half of 2023, it will serve as an additional trigger for granting the EU candidacy to Georgia, which is the will of the President of the Senate of the Kingdom of Spain. We recognize Georgia as a part of Europe,” Gutiérrez Limones stated.
