“Georgia submitted the application for the EU candidacy 20 months ago and starting from March 3, 2022, wide-scale preparations have been held. It was truly complicated 20 months. We restarted the development of the documents to enclose to the application, then we were exposed to a really appalling decision in June, which entailed turmoil among society and the Government. This was a grave decision, similar to the fact that it was resorted to the attempts to change the government and we all remember the processes unfolding in June after the decision of the European Council. For all this period, we had to counter the negative campaigns about the EU candidacy.

Now, it is imperative to receive a positive decision made by the European Commission since it is high time to brush our past aside and aspire to the future.

A key priority today is compliance with those 9 paragraphs set out by the EU, and identically upon compliance with 12-paragraph recommendations, we are developing the action plan for the fulfillment of nine priorities of the European Commission. We have already held the communication between the government and the European Commission and a respective action plan will be submitted to the European Commission next week,”  Irakli Kobakhidze stated.