The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, called on all Georgian political parties on Monday 19 April to accept European Council President Charles Michel’s new proposal for a political agreement to end the political crisis. Earlier in the day, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell, had called on all Georgian political parties to accept the proposed political agreement.
Welcoming “positive” indications that the governing Georgian Dream party had agreed to the deal, he hoped, after the video conference of EU foreign ministers, that “the other parties will move to reach an agreement”.
Mr Borrell had urged all parties to find a compromise to break the current deadlock.
Already on Sunday, spokespersons for the European External Action Service (EEAS) and the US State Department had called on members of the Georgian Parliament to sign the agreement. “This is an agreement that all MPs can sign in good faith rather than a unilateral action that undermines the objective of a broad-based agreement”, the two spokespersons said.
In their view, the institutional reforms foreseen in the agreement represent “an important step forward for the democratic development” of Georgia and “help to create a more independent judiciary, stronger electoral processes and a parliament that can better reflect the voices of all the people of Georgia”.
See the proposal: https://bit.ly/3n0cOGX (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)