Albanian Parliament Speaker Visits Georgia

Albanian Parliament Speaker, Ilir Meta, who is visiting Tbilisi, held meetings with the Georgian leadership on September 14-15.

He met President Giorgi Margvelashvili and PM Irakli Garibashvili on September 15 and also held talks with his Georgian counterpart Davit Usupashvili and Foreign Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili on September 14.

Meta said after the meeting with Usupashvili that Georgia and Albania “share common future”, adding that his country “fully supports Georgia’s aspirations to become a NATO member. As a candidate for EU membership, Albania also “supports European perspective for Georgia,” Meta said.

“We thanked [Ilir Meta] for Albania’s clear support for Georgia’s NATO membership. As a member of NATO, we asked Albania to pay attention to developments in our region and to facilitate further Georgia’s NATO integration,” Georgian Parliament Speaker Davit Usupashvili said after the meeting on September 14.

The Speaker of Albanian Parliament participated in Open Government Partnership’s Legislative Openness Working Group conference along with more than 70 delegates from over 30 countries.