News.Az - Georgia chooses Europe - Saakashvili
Thu 18 November 2010 12:25 GMT | 14:25 Local Time
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso have discussed preparations for talks on free trade.
Jose Manuel Barroso said that although “significant progress” had been made on legislative and regulatory measures, Georgia needed to make “more effort” on their implementation before talks could be launched on a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement with the EU.
Speaking to reporters after meeting President Saakashvili in Brussels on 17 November, Barroso said that the timing of the start of talks “is very much in the hands of our Georgian counterparts”.