The President focuses on Georgia"s European integration and the strategic challenges at the fourth annual address at the Parliament in Kutaisi. Giorgi Margvelashvili mentions that Georgia should start active work in order to become the EU applicant country.

" On the 1st of July last year, the Association Agreement including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area Agreement entered into force. Now we have a Visa-Free regime in Schengen zone.

However, we should not stop on this achievement. Georgia’s declared and final destination is to return to its historical family of the European states. The same priority is reaffirmed by the “Resolution of the Parliament of Georgia on the Foreign Policy of Georgia” adopted on December 29, last year. I applaud the spirit and aims of this resolution.

Therefore, we have to start the active work to become the EU applicant country. For this aim, it is necessary to strengthen democracy and sustainability of state institutions, protect human rights, the rule of law, economic development and to create the efficient and functional European system of justice," said the President

According to him " the widening of Europe-Asia transport corridor still remains the goal of our foreign policy. In this respect, the involvement of other countries in new projects will guarantee Georgia’s security and welfare."

" At the same time, we have to react promptly on new dividing lines and installation policy of barbwire, cases on the prohibition of education in Georgian language in Gali schools, as well as kidnapping and destruction of our cultural heritages. We have to be firm and united on such important issues of our country,"- Giorgi Margvelashvili said.