“We need to hurry up in order not to miss the train of the next big enlargement that might be happening very quickly,” said Pawel Herczynski, EU Ambassador to Georgia.

According to the EU Ambassador, the European Council will discuss the Georgian issue on October 17-18.

“European Council is the highest decision-making body of the European Union. In June, the European Council, which means 27 EU leaders, decided to stop Georgia’s EU accession process. This is extremely regrettable. This is heartbreaking for me as an EU ambassador. European Council will discuss Georgia on the 17th and 18th of October, so a week before the elections. We will see what the leaders will decide when it comes to the future of the relationship with Georgia.

For the moment, and I repeat it, our doors have been opened. It’s the European Council that decided to grant Georgia candidate status under certain conditions. These conditions need to be met. I really regret that instead of introducing necessary reforms, unfortunately, we have lost a lot of time to the point in which the European Council was forced to stop Georgia’s EU accession. But again, we are waiting for you. We sincerely hope that you go and vote on the 26th of October and whoever wins the elections will very quickly restart Georgia’s EU accession process. We need to hurry up in order not to miss the train of the next big enlargement that might be happening very quickly,” he said.