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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8682
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/georgia

Accession to EU in "near future" is Georgia's number one priority, says new President Saakashvili - Relations with Moscow improving

Brussels, 06/04/2004 (Agence Europe) - The new President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, told the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs on Tuesday that the "number one priority" of his country's foreign policy was to accede to the EU one day. Georgia is "fundamentally a European country", with a European culture and mentality, and its government and population both shared the European values of the rule of law, respect for human rights, freedom of press and religion, stressed...

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