US Ambassador to Georgia said that the EU-brokered April 19 Agreement provided an important and useful roadmap for the reforms that Georgia needed to carry out in the future.

“There will be elections in October, as scheduled, and I think it is premature to talk about beyond those elections. I will say that the April 19th Agreement was negotiated over six months by Georgia’s political leaders. One of the reasons it took six months is to ensure that it was consistent, and it is consistent with Georgia’s constitution and its laws.

It still provides a very important and useful roadmap for the kinds of reforms that Georgia needs to do in the coming months. The most important value of the April 19th Agreement was that it was a multi-party agreement. Almost all of Georgia’s leaders signed on to that, but all of them participated in negotiating the reforms that are laid out in that roadmap. So, again, I think it still provides a very important framework for the reforms that need to be tackled in the future”, - said Kelly Degnan.