The Baltic-Black Sea line’s ties are crucial and look quite promising in all aspects – economical, transit, infrastructural, security-linked etc. That was stressed by Andrii Parubii, the Ukrainian Parliament’s chairperson at the meeting with Prime Minister of Georgia Giorgi Kvirikashvili during A.Parubii’s official visit to the country.
A.Parubii underlined Ukraine set high store by Georgia’s relations. He also greeted the Georgian side with the visa free travel regime. ‘We are next, waiting for the final decision on June 11,’ said he with following words of gratitude for ‘a well-organized NATO PA’s session in Tbilisi’.
The parliamentary head confirmed that a tight inter-parliamentary relationship had been launched.
‘The similar sizeable experience in the working with Poland and Lithuania shows us that a trilateral format of cooperation lends a fair spur to new capabilities and opportunities,’ said he in confirm, having also voiced his hopes that the triple league be supported by the Georgian Parliament.
A distinctive accent was made by A.Parubii upon utterly desirable deeper links along the North-South line. He clarified that a big infrastructural project on expressway construction between Black and Baltic Seas was in progress.
The Chairperson reckons that by pooling efforts and goals Georgia is pursuing in its collaboration with China regarding Silk Road, one may create a fairly large infrastructural project for transiting goods, funds, resources. ‘It is my deep belief that Baltic-Black Sea-Caspian line is of great importance. Including the security understanding,’ Andrii Parubii added.
It is also his firm conviction that we need to seek after state-to-state relationship allowing Ukraine and Georgia to regionally team up with the EU states, in view of a would-be EU membership particularly.
The NATO PA’s participants laid then flowers on the Monument of Heroes.