Georgia intends to carry out all the necessary procedures to sign an association agreement with the European Union by September 2014, Georgian Prime Minister Irakly Garibashvili said.
Meeting with members of the diplomatic corps accredited in Georgia on Friday, Garibashvili said Georgia was ready to sign the agreement.
Earlier the same day, Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze said in commenting on European Council President Herman Van Rompuy’s remark to the effect that the association agreements with Georgia and Moldova could be signed earlier than planned that Tbilisi “will only welcome the shifting of the signature date to an earlier period.”
“Absolutely everything is ready on our part,” she said.
Georgia and Moldova initialed the association agreements with the EU at an Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius in November.
