Speaker: Georgia’s EU, NATO accession is a must
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Speaker of Parliament László Kövér, on an official visit to Tbilisi, said Georgia should be allowed to join the European Union and NATO.
Kövér said it was beyond question that Georgia had made great strides towards the EU, Parliament’s press chief Zoltan Szilagyi said on Monday after the speaker’s talks with Georgian counterpart Shalva Papuashvili. European institutions, Kövér said, must repair the omission of Georgia as an EU candidate when Ukraine and Moldova had been promised that status. Georgia, he said, was the second oldest European Christian state and deserved candidate status, also considering it has made the most progress in terms of legal harmonisation among countries hoping to join the bloc.
Hungary will continue to support Georgia’s EU aspirations and offer help in the process of bidding to become a member state, he said. Hopefully, by the second half of 2024, when Hungary holds the rotating EU presidency, Georgia will have made even greater advances in this area, he said. The West must guarantee Georgia’s security, the speaker said, adding that Hungary stood for Georgia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty and backed the country’s NATO aspirations.
Interesting statement re NATO. Does Mr. Kövér´s assertions regarding Georgia’s territorial integrity and sovereignty extend to South Ossetia and Abkazia? Unless I am very much mistaken, the Georgian government and most of the world’s other states consider both to be part of Georgia’s territory. As opposed to Mr. Putin´s Russia.
Facts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War