U.S. Lawmakers Call for U.S.-Georgia Free Trade Agreement
Democratic Senator John Kerry and Republican Congressman David Dreier introduced a non-binding resolutions calling for the launch of negotiations with Georgia on free trade agreement.
“This is a constructive step to assist the people of Georgia with achieving the reconstruction and economic development of their country,” Senator Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement on May 7. “A free trade agreement with the United States won’t solve all of Georgia’s problems, but it will have a positive impact. This is an opportunity for our country to lead. I hope Europe will take similar action and I hope Russia will remove the impediments to trade with Georgia it has implemented.”
“This week’s mutiny attempt in Tbilisi is just another reminder of the need to strengthen Georgia’s democratic institutions and ensure that the Georgian people’s quest for stability, democracy and prosperity can be fulfilled,” Representative David Dreier, the top Republican on the House Rules Committee, said in the same statement. “I can think of no better way to assist them in this endeavor than to expand the international trade that spurs economic growth and brings in new investment.”
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