Excellent bilateral relations and rising political dialogue were noted by Prime Minister Pavel Filip and Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze. The meeting took place in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.

After Filip’s official visit to Tbilisi last year, Bakhtadze comes to Chisinau in October 2018 to attend a meeting of GUAM heads of government.

Trade between our countries is also growing. In January-July 2018, they reached 14 million dollars, up by 18% than in the same period last year.

There are 33 Moldovan-Georgian enterprises in our country. “Moldova and Georgia have very good relations, we can only compete whose wines are better,” Filip said. He invited his Georgian counterpart to visit our country on Wine Day to be convinced of Moldovan wine quality.

The two prime ministers assessed how the two countries can continue to coordinate their foreign policy actions to help ensure security in the region and to speed up the European accession process.

Filip thanked the Georgian side for co-authoring the resolution on “complete and unconditional withdrawal of foreign military troops from Moldova”. He said that we are counting on cooperation as equally effective in the margin of the current session of the General Assembly when this point will be debated. In this regard, it was highlighted the need to transform the current peacekeeping operation on the Dniestre into a civil mission with international mandate.

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