Hungarian FM meets Georgia integration minister

Europe has an obvious economic and security interest in the success of the Eastern Partnership initiative, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said after meeting with Viktor Dolidze, Georgia’s state minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration, in Budapest on Wednesday.

Speaking at a joint press conference with Dolidze after the meeting, Szijjártó noted that Georgia signed a trade and cooperation agreement with the European Union in 2014 and the EU issued a visa waiver for Georgian citizens earlier this year.

Hungary supports the Georgian initiative to start talks with the bloc on security and defence cooperation, he said.

Szijjártó said Hungary is a committed supporter of Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic integration and would continue to support all of that country’s aspirations to cooperate with NATO and the EU in the future, too. Hungary will also support the EU in ensuring that the European partnership initiative is a success, the minister added.