The EU Foreign Affairs Council will meet in Brussels today, January, 27, where, among other issues, they will discuss the latest developments in Georgia.

According to the European Council, the EU Foreign Affairs Ministers will discuss Russia’s aggression against Ukraine after an informal exchange of views with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha via videoconference.

Besides, the Foreign Affairs Council will also discuss EU-US relations. The ministers will also discuss recent developments in the Middle East, including Syria: “The Foreign Affairs Council will discuss current issues, focusing on recent developments and the rapidly changing situation in the security and defense sector. Within this context, the ministers will touch upon developments in Moldova and Georgia”.

The Foreign Affairs Council meeting will be chaired by the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas: “Today we are going to briefly discuss the issue of Georgia. We have now suspended diplomatic passports, we have suspended the visa-free regime for diplomatic passports. We have also redirected the funds that were intended to support the Government and transferred them to non-governmental organizations, to civil society”.

“About Georgia, things are not on a good track. Europe can do more. One thing that Estonia has proposed is the start of the process of taking away visa liberation. So I’m not saying that we’re just taking it away tomorrow, but we need to start this process to give the very straight and clear message that these authorities who are now leading Georgia. They are lying to their own people. They need to change the course.

Estonia has been very supportive for Georgian people and we know everything that you explained right now that it is happening there. So we don’t, we cannot believe what the Georgian authorities are saying. We actually witness exactly what is happening in real life. So I do hope that we will find ways to make more decisions about Georgia”, - said Margus Tsahkna, the Estonian Foreign Minister.