Group of EU Foreign Ministers to Visit Georgia

Slovenian, Swedish, Polish and Lithuanian foreign ministers will pay one-day visit to Georgia on May 12, the Georgian Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday.

Russian-Georgian relations and situation in Georgia’s breakaway regions will top the agenda of the visit, according to the Foreign Ministry.

Meanwhile, Lithuanian government’s press office reported on May 8 that Prime Minister Gediminas Kirkilas held a phone conversation with his Polish counterpart, Donald Tusk, and agreed “to continue coordinating their positions” in talks over EU’s cooperation treaty with Russia. Lithuania has blocked the launch of talks on EU’s Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with Russia.

“Lithuania, similarly to the other EU member states, wanted to start negotiations; however, Lithuania wanted to include into the negotiating mandate questions that had already been raised, [but] Russia had not yet given answers to them,” the Lithuanian government’s press release reads. “According to Kirkilas, the issues of frozen conflicts in Georgia and Moldova, EU-Russia cooperation in the field of justice, and energy security are in the interests of the entire EU, and asked for Poland’s support.”