ARMENIAN PRESIDENT, SENIOR EU OFFICIALS CONGRATULATE GIORGI MARGVELASHVILI ON ELECTION
Xinhua General News Service, China
October 28, 2013 Monday 2:10 PM EST
TBILISI Oct. 28
The Armenian president and two senior European Union (EU) officials
on Monday joined the Lithuanian president in congratulating Georgia’s
ruling coalition candidate Giorgi Margvelashvili on his victory in
the country’s presidential election.
Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan sent a congratulatory message to
the Georgian president-elect.
Earlier in the day, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite wrote
in her congratulatory message, “Your country has passed yet another
test of democracy and therefore I sincerely hope that together we
will be able to evaluate Georgia’s European choice at the forthcoming
Vilnius Summit.”
The Lithuanian president invited Margvelashvili to attend the EU
Eastern Partnership Summit to be held in Vilnius on Nov. 28-29.
Though pending a final Georgian Central Election Commission report
on the Oct. 27 presidential poll, the ruling coalition Georgian
Dream-Democratic Georgia candidate, Margvelashvili, is leading the 23
running candidates by having tallied 63.34 percent of valid votes in
the preliminary results. An inauguration ceremony was planned for Nov.
17 to swear in Margvelashvili.
EU high representative for foreign affairs Catherine Ashton and EU
commissioner for enlargement Stefan Fule sent their congratulation
to Margvelashvili on his victory and to the Georgian people on “this
demonstration of their country’s strong democratic credentials.”
The two EU officials called on Margvelashvili to work “in an inclusive
and multi-partisan spirit with a view to taking forward Georgia’s
ambitious program of reforms and institution building.”
“On the eve of the Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, which will
mark a significant step forward in EU-Georgia relations, we look
forward to continued close cooperation with Georgia on our ambitious
mutual agenda of political association and economic integration,”
they said in a statement.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
