June 24th, 2022
Georgia should have been granted EU candidate status alongside Ukraine and Moldova, Peter Szijjarto, the foreign minister, said in Tbilisi on Friday. He said the decision was "inexplicable ... and harmful to Europe". While Szijjarto welcomed the recent decision to grant candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova, he added that Georgia deserved a place in the bloc, too. The decision, he added, undermined the aim of strengthening the EU and amounted to a wasted opportunity. The minister insisted that EU preconditions demanded of Georgia were "in many cases meaningless" and lacked "a system of objective criteria".
MTI