Georgian Prime Minister Participates in European Political Community Summit

The Georgian prime minister attended the opening plenary session of the summit. The conference opened with addresses by the Irish prime minister and European Council President António Costa.

The leaders attending the summit posed for a group photo.

As part of the 9th EPC summit, Kobakhidze will take part in a roundtable discussion on the topic of “Ensuring the Security and Defence of a Democratic Europe.”

“We are participating in the European Political Community summit. We will deliver remarks in a roundtable format. We also usually use this format for bilateral meetings and discussions with leaders. This summit will follow the same format. The roundtable is dedicated to the state of democracy in Europe.

We will express our position on all issues. In particular, we will seek to explain the current situation and trends to our European friends from Georgia’s perspective.

Georgia plays a key role in terms of connectivity, particularly because, unfortunately, routes to the East have been closed to Europe following Russia’s economic isolation from the rest of the European space and the outbreak of the conflict in the Middle East.

The South Caucasus, and Georgia in particular, remains the only land gateway to the East. We are fully prepared to cooperate with Europe and the European Union in this regard, and, naturally, we will also discuss this issue with our European partners,” Irakli Kobakhidze said.

The Prime Minister of Georgia is attending the EPC summit accompanied by a delegation that includes Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Maka Bochorishvili and Head of the Government Administration Levan Zhorzholiani.