Tbilisi hosts session of EU-Georgia subcommittee

Tbilisi hosted the fifth session of the EU-Georgian subcommittee on Justice, Freedom and Security. The subcommittee co-chairs are the director of the Department for European Integration at the Georgian Foreign Ministry, Tea Akhvlediani, and the head of the Eastern Partnership division of the EU Foreign Service, John Kjaer.

From the Georgian side the meeting was attended by representatives of relevant government agencies and from Europe, the representatives of the service of foreign policy actions, the European Commission and the EU delegation in Georgia.

The parties discussed the issues of EU assistance in the area of legal and illegal migration, border management, document security, internally displaced persons, visa dialogue and implementation of readmission agreements and the fight against drugs, terrorism, money laundering and corruption, legal cooperation, freedom and security.

The meeting was held in an open and constructive atmosphere.

At this stage, this subcommittee is of special significance in the context of the subsequent progress of cooperation between Georgia and the EU in the framework of the visa dialogue (negotiations on this matter began on June 4, 2012).


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