The Foreign Relations Committee discussed and approved the Action Plan 2025. According to Nikoloz Samkharadze, the Committee Chair, the Committee sets as its goal to determine the foreign policy priorities and ensure uninterrupted oversight of its enforcement. As he noted, one of the primary tasks of the Committee encompasses the facilitation of the de-occupation and restoration of territorial integrity.

“We schedule to work in bilateral and multilateral formats to maintain the de-occupation of Georgia on the agenda and to ensure the engagement of our partners in this process. We aspire to facilitate the non-recognition policy of the so-called independence of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali region and intensify the mobilization of the international society in this regard, especially in the countries that face the risk factors. We also intend to strive to ensure support for the resolutions, statements and other documents initiated by Georgia in parliamentary assemblies within bilateral formats, and in international and regional organizations”, - said Nikoloz Samkharadze.

Introducing the action plan, he accentuated tasks: facilitation of the EU/NATO integration, development of Georgia-US partnership, cooperation with international organizations, intensification of bilateral/ regional cooperation: ““Georgia, beyond Europe, chases its foreign political priority, which implies the countries, such as Israel, Persian Gulf, China, Japan, South Korea, Central Asia and the Near East, also India and OIC. It is also imperative to enhance the parliamentary cooperation with South America, Africa, ASEAN and Ocenaria”.

As the Chairman underlined, the Committee plans to ensure uninterrupted oversight of the activities of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, including the periodic hearing of the Minister, his Deputies, authorized persons, and the ambassadors.

“We continue to establish the practice that was initiated in the Parliament of the previous convocation, namely, the hearing the foreign ambassador in the Parliament. We also intend to hold hearings on the human rights state and security in the occupied territories and the peacekeeping policy activities. We will definitely hear the report on the inter-state disputes against the Russian Federation and the progress achieved in this regard”, - he stated.