Georgia willing to offer most comfortable conditions to Ukrainian business people - PM Kvirikashvili
TBILISI. July 18 (Interfax) - Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili has promised conditions as comfortable as possible to Ukrainian business people to develop business in Georgia.
"We attach great significance to cooperation with the business sector, as we believe that this is the main driver of economic development. We are prepared to offer members of the Ukrainian business community conditions as comfortable for business development as possible," Kvirikashvili said at a Georgian-Ukrainian business forum on Tuesday.
Ukrainian business people would also benefit from Georgia's free trade with Turkey, China, and Hong Kong, and, starting at end of 2018, India is also most likely to join this club, as the two countries have a reciprocal interest and have started consultations, he said.
Georgia and Ukraine are involved in regional transit transport projects of global significance, and both countries have great potential to develop and deepen productive cooperation in all areas, he said.
"I am sure that today's business forum will expose specific business interests and open up new prospects for business cooperation," he said.
Kvirikashvili said he hoped trade and economic cooperation between Georgia and Ukraine would soon reach a level consistent with the historic and political relations existing between the two countries.
"I have this hope after a meeting with the president of Ukraine, at which we considered very interesting initiatives aimed at further developing our bilateral cooperation in numerous areas. I am convinced that we will be able to accomplish and implement all these initiatives by consolidating our efforts," Kvirikashvili said.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said he regretted that the leaders of the two countries had not had intensive relations and that he was proud to be a friend of the Georgian prime minister.
"I am proud that Giorgi Kvirikashvili and I are friends and trust each other very much," Poroshenko said, adding that he hoped these relations would be even more intensive.
