Georgian Foreign Minister Visits Germany

Georgian Foreign Minister, Tamar Beruchashvili, is visiting Berlin where she will meet her German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Tuesday

“The focus of the conversation will be Georgia’s relations with Germany and with the European Union, as well as situation in the region,” the German Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

Georgian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Davit Kereselidze, said on Monday that upcoming EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, “progress made by Georgia” on its European integration process, its Euro-Atlantic aspirations, “situation in Georgia’s occupied territories", as well as regional issues and Georgian-German bilateral relations would be discussed.

It will be the second meeting of the two foreign ministers in last five months. Steinmeier visited Tbilisi in early December – his second one in 2014; he paid a joint visit to Tbilisi together with his French counterpart Laurent Fabius in April, 2014.

During the visit Beruchashvili will also meet Chancellor Angela Merkel’s foreign and security policy adviser Christoph Heusgen and President of the German lower house of parliament, Bundestag, Norbert Lammert, who visited Georgia in February. The Bundestag ratified EU-Georgia Association Agreement in March.

Georgian Interior Minister, Vakhtang Gomelauri, is also visiting Berlin this week to meet his German counterpart Thomas de Maiziere.