The Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said the European integration is a constitutional task and the main foreign policy priority of his Government.

“There have been a lot of difficulties along the way, especially during the two to three years we were unfairly denied the membership candidate status in June 2022, then we lived in a regime of artificial [domestic political] polarization for a year and a half, [and] much injustice was hovering over our country, although we took a dignified position, and it was at the expense of this that, in the end, we managed to get the candidate status of the EU in 2023.

"There will be similar difficulties over the next year, and I will repeat once again that these difficulties will also be related to the war [in Ukraine] that is being waged in our region”, - Kobakhidze added.

The head of the Government also pledged the country would continue to advance on the European integration very straightforwardly and claimed it would achieve full EU membership by 2030.