“It is important to prepare for the moment when Europe is ready to open the window for opportunities for Georgia,” Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili made this statement in Brussels, Belgium, where the 5th Eastern Partnership Summit was held today.

Kvirikashvili said that Georgia’s success was underlined during the summit. “Now we have more ambitious steps to make and whatever attitude there is in Europe and other countries, we will continue implementing the plan of ambitious reforms,” PM stated.

The Georgian delegation is returning from Belgium with new messages and 20 tasks to be done by 2020. The 20 deliverables for 2020 were identified by the EEAS and the European Commission in a joint staff working document ‘Eastern Partnership – Focusing on key priorities and deliverables’. The report was first presented in December 2016 and revised in June 2017.

Participants of the 5th Eastern Partnership Summit held today in Brussels agreed on a final version of their declaration. The 22-page document consists of 21 items.

In the Declaration, the participants of the Summit reconfirm the high importance they attach to the Eastern Partnership as a specific dimension of the European Neighbourhood Policy. They reaffirm their shared commitment to this strategic and ambitious Partnership, based on common values, mutual interests and understanding, shared ownership and responsibility, differentiation, mutual accountability, which brings the Eastern European partner countries closer to the European Union. Sustained and effective reform progress is key to the continued success of the Eastern Partnership.

The Summit participants recommit themselves to strengthening democracy, rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms, as well as principles and norms of international law, which are at the heart of the Eastern Partnership. The European Union remains committed in its support to the territorial integrity, independence and sovereignty of all its partners.

“Full commitment, respect for and adherence to the purposes and principles enshrined in the UN Charter, the 1975 Helsinki Final Act and the 1990 OSCE Charter of Paris are fundamental to our shared vision for a peaceful and undivided Europe. The Summit participants reconfirm elements and principles embodied in past Eastern Partnership Summit Declarations and underline their firm intention to carry forward the commitments taken at previous Summits and in bilateral agreements,” the Declaration states.

According to the Declaration, “The Summit participants welcome the signing of the Comprehensive and Enhanced Partnership Agreement between the European Union and Armenia in the margins of the Summit.

The participants welcome good progress in the ongoing negotiations between the European Union and Azerbaijan for a new framework agreement. They appreciate that the EU’s critical engagement with Belarus has become more comprehensive, including within the EU-Belarus Coordination Group, the Human Rights Dialogue and the Dialogue on Trade.”