Tusk and Margvelashvili will redouble my efforts to cancel visas for Georgian citizens

Natalia Dobrovolskaya. The head of the European Council Donald Tusk and the head of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili has agreed to redouble their efforts so that the country could move to a visa-free regime with the EU, as soon as may be.

"I commended the President for the great progress made by his country to this point with regard to the requirements needed for the visa-free regime with the EU. The remaining steps are clearly identified, and We agreed to redouble our efforts, to successfully complete the process as soon as may be, " said Tusk.

"We will continue to work to achieve our common goal of visa-free travel to the EU for all Georgian citizens ", - noted the head of the European Council.

according to his statement, " it was an opportune moment for the government of Georgia has carried out the necessary reforms, while maintaining a dialogue with the residents ".

last week, the EC presented a report on the performance of Kiev and Tbilisi in order to liberalize the visa regime. Review Commission, Ukraine and Georgia have made significant progress towards the abolition of visas, but they still are expected to do this much work in different areas. The EC also stated that Ukraine and Georgia will not be offered a visa-free regime with the EU "Eastern partnership" in Riga on may 21-22. The subsequent report about the readiness of the country pairs for the abolition of visas with the European Union, the Commission makes a promise to introduce before the end of the year.

first of Margvelashvili said that Georgia is positively reviewed the report of the European Commission on the implementation of the Tbilisi EU requirements for transition to a visa-free regime with the European Union and will do everything in their power to in the near future to achieve positive results in this direction.


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