Georgia highly appreciate friendship and partnership with China, and I am grateful for your decision to upgrade our relationship to a strategic partnership. Such a statement the Prime Minister of Georgia made at the meeting with the leader of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping.

“Mr. President, It is a great honor and pleasure to meet you today. This is a historic visit for me. I am personally very grateful to you. I am very honored and extremely grateful for the invitation to China.

I am also happy to attend the opening ceremony of the 2023 World Summer University Games here in Chengdu, China. So I thank you again. I really appreciate this invitation.

I am grateful to you and your government also for supporting my country. China was one of the first to recognize Georgia’s independence in 1992, when we regained independence. Then we established diplomatic relations between our two countries.

I would like to emphasize that Georgia strongly supports the One China principle. We have emphasized this position many times and will continue to do so in the future.

Georgia highly appreciate friendship and partnership with China, and I am grateful for your decision to upgrade our relationship to a strategic partnership, which I believe will bring concrete results and benefits to both sides.

Let me reiterate that Georgia is committed to the idea of deepening trade and economic ties with China in many directions, and we are glad that important documents will be signed within the framework of this visit.

Thank you very much once again”, - said Irakli Garibashvili.