Ambassador of the European Union, Pawel Herczynski, confirmed that the European Union has suspended high-level contacts with representatives of the Georgian authorities. This is why no high-level meetings have taken place in Brussels in recent months, the diplomat said.
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"What I can tell you is that already in June of this year, we had an internal discussion with our member states on how to approach the attitude of the Georgian authorities, which we consider unfriendly towards the European Union.
Also, we discussed how we should approach the anti-Western and anti-European narrative, propaganda and conspiracy theory, and we decided as the EU not to have any high-level contacts with the current government of Georgia, and that is why there have been no high-level visits to Georgia in recent months, no high-level Meetings with representatives of the Georgian government in Brussels.
I repeat once again, the institutions of the European Union decided to stop all high-level meetings with the representatives of the Georgian government," said Pawel Herczynski.
The ambassador further noted that in June, the European Council decided to halt the process of Georgia's accession to the European Union. According to him, the Council will revisit the issue of Georgia on October 17-18, one week before the parliamentary elections.
"We will see what the leaders will decide when it comes to the future of the relationship with Georgia. For the moment, and I repeat it, our doors have been opened. It’s the European Council that decided to grant Georgia candidate status under certain conditions. These conditions need to be met. I really regret that instead of introducing necessary reforms, unfortunately, we have lost a lot of time to the point in which the European Council was forced to stop Georgia’s EU accession. But again, we are waiting for you. We sincerely hope that you go and vote on the 26th of October and whoever wins the elections will very quickly restart Georgia’s EU accession process," said Herczynski.
As the ambassador said, freedom, democracy, the rule of law, and minority rights are the values upon which the European Union is founded. Pavel Herchinsky expressed hope that on October 26, the people of Georgia will elect a new government that upholds these values.
