EU Ambassador: no evidence that Georgia assisted circumvention of EU sanctions on Russia
Herczynski noted the EU had imposed the “strictest” sanctions on Russia in order to stop its aggression against Ukraine. Photo: EU Delegation to Georgia
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Pawel Herczynski, the European Union Ambassador to Georgia, on Monday said the European Union had no information or evidence of Georgia assisting circumvention of the bloc’s sanctions imposed on Russia following the latter’s invasion of Ukraine.
Herczynski noted the EU had imposed the “strictest” sanctions on Russia in order to stop its aggression against Ukraine.
He also stressed Georgia had implemented some but not all of the sanctions adopted by the bloc.
“What we want Georgia to do is that Georgia, the territory of Georgia, Georgian companies are not used for circumventing the sanctions, and at the moment, we have no opposite information. We don't have any information, evidence that Georgia is assisting circumvention of our sanctions”, he noted.
Maka Botchorishvili, the Chair of the Georgian Parliament's European Union Integration Committee, on Wednesday said the visit of the French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna to the country this week was an “opportunity” to demonstrate Georgia’s progress in efforts for European integration.
Georgian Foreign Minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Tuesday praised Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili’s “very important” meeting with Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, where the Georgian Government’s “special efforts” in the fulfilment of the EU recommendations “as promptly as possible” had been highlighted.
Charles Michel, the President of the European Council, on Tuesday, by addressing the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, said the European Union would stand by him “every step of the way”.
The European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council on Monday confirmed Georgia had made “significant progress” in “many key reforms” carried out in the country’s efforts for integration into the bloc, and highlighted the roles of rule of law, human rights, media, civil society and independent state institutions as “important elements” for each country aspiring to join the bloc.
The Ministry of Finance of Georgia on Monday responded to unspecified media reports about the territory of Georgia being used for violations of sanctions imposed by the international community against Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine by saying “no such fact” had been revealed in the country.
Mamuka Mdinaradze, the Executive Secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday criticised a comment by Viola von Cramon, a member of the European Parliament, on the European Union candidate status for Georgia by saying separating the country’s Government from its people was “very harmful”.