During a meeting with her Georgian counterpart, David Usupashvili, Graužinienė welcomed Georgia's aspiration to draw closer to the EU, according to the parliament's Public Relations Division.
In her words, Georgia has done a lot on its EU integration path, therefore, it naturally has high expectations from the EU Eastern Partnership summit that will take place in Vilnius next month.
"Personally I never doubted the Georgian choice to head towards Europe. Also, I never doubted that parliaments play a key role in ensuring a nation's will, decisions of voters and constitutional character of states in all free countries on the path to democracy. The format of parliamentary diplomacy was the path and is the path that countries of Eastern Partnership will have to take in further democratization processes and as they are brought closer to Europe," the Lithuanian parliamentary speaker said at a conference on Georgia in the run-up to the Vilnius summit.
She also wished the Georgian parliament, president, government and diplomats patience, determination and successful achievement of goals on the Euro-integration path.
The agenda of the Graužinienė-led delegation in Georgia also includes meetings with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, the Georgian parliament's Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ted Japaridze and Georgian Patrarch Ilya II.
