Georgia and Ukraine

Ukraine-Georgia political relations

Recognition of Ukraine: December 12, 1991.

Establishment of diplomatic relations: July 22, 1992.

Diplomatic institutions: Embassy of Ukraine in Georgia; Honorary Consulate of Ukraine in Batumi; Embassy of Georgia in Ukraine; Consulate of Georgia in Odesa, Honorary consulates in Kharkiv and Lviv.

Agreements and legal basis:

Number of valid documents: 130 agreements, 140 politically binding joint documents between state authorities and management, subjects of cross-border cooperation and civil society.

Basic political agreement: Treaty of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between Ukraine and the Republic of Georgia (April 13, 1993).

High-level bilateral bodies:

High-level Ukrainian-Georgian Strategic Council (the Regulations on the High-level Ukrainian-Georgian Strategic Council was signed at the level of the President of Ukraine and the Prime Minister of Georgia on December 13, 2019 in Kyiv);

Joint intergovernmental Ukrainian-Georgian commission on economic cooperation.

On July 18, 2017, the Presidents of Ukraine and Georgia signed the Declaration on the establishment of strategic partnership between the two countries, in which are defined the main goals:

• De-occupation of the territories of two states and restoration of their territorial integrity within internationally recognized borders;
• Sustainable democratic development and economic growth of Ukraine and Georgia;
• Full integration into the EU and NATO.

In accordance with these strategic tasks, the Declaration outlines ten areas of coordinated policy of the two states.

General issues.

Georgia constantly supports Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity on all bilateral and international platforms and condemns russian aggression against Ukraine. Georgia joined more than 300 international initiatives supporting Ukraine (resolutions, declarations, statements, decisions).

Georgia:

– supported the establishment of a Special Tribunal for the crime of russian aggression against Ukraine, the exclusion of the russian federation from PACE and the Council of Europe, the convening of the IMO Extraordinary Council Session “Consideration of maritime safety and the safety of sailors in the Black and Azov Seas as a result of the further invasion of the russian federation to Ukraine”;

– co-authored and supported the resolutions of the UN General Assembly “Aggression against Ukraine” (03/02/2022), “Humanitarian consequences of aggression against Ukraine” (03/24/2022), “Suspension of russia’s membership in the UN Human Rights Council” (04/07/2022), “Territorial integrity of Ukraine: protection of the principles of the UN Charter” (10/12/2022), “Situation with human rights in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol, Ukraine” (12/15/2022), “Provision of legal remedies and reparations in in connection with the aggression against Ukraine” (11/14/2022), “The principles of the UN Charter underlying a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine” (02/23/2023);

– joined the EU declaration on the atrocities committed by russia in Bucha and other cities of Ukraine (04/07/2022), the Final Statement of the participants of the Second Summit of the International Crimean Platform (08/23/2022), the Joint Declaration of the Participants of the First Parliamentary Summit of the International Crimean Platform (10/25/2022), the Statement of the OSCE Permanent Council regarding the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor (11/24/2022), and also supported the “Bucha declaration on responsibility for the most serious crimes under international law committed on the territory of Ukraine” (03/31/2023).

Ukraine, in turn, continues to support Georgia’s initiatives in bilateral and international formats aimed at preserving sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia. In particular, Ukraine supported:

– the Georgia-initiated UNGA resolution “Status of Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia and Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia, Georgia” (06/09/2022 and 06/07/2023), which recognizes the right of all refugees and forcibly displaced persons (IDPs ) to return to Abkhazia and “South Ossetia”;

– Georgia’s Statement at the 1387th meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council regarding the 14th anniversary of the russian military aggression against Georgia (09/02/2022);

– Georgia’s election as a member of the UN Human Rights Council for the second time (10/12/2022),

– the adoption of the 26th (11/16/2022) and 27th (04/19/2023) reports of the Secretary General of the Council of Europe on the conflict in Georgia, of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe report on human rights violations in the russian-occupied territories of Georgia in 2022 (02/22/2022);

– the candidacy of Georgia to the UNEP INC Bureau (04/26/2023).

Recent contacts at the highest level:

2023

March 31 – participation of the President of Georgia S.Zourabishvili in the “Bucha Summit”;

2022 

October 24-26 – participation of the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia Sh.Papuashvili in the first parliamentary summit of the international “Crimean Platform” (Zagreb, Croatia);

August 23 – participation of the President of Georgia S.Zourabishvili in the second summit of the international “Crimean Platform”;

April 16 – visit of the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia Sh.Papuashvili to Ukraine and a meeting with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine R.Stefanchuk;

April 13 – video conference conversation between the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine R.Stefanchuk and the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia Sh.Papuashvili;

2021

November 11 – telephone conversation between the President of Ukraine V.Zelenskyy and the Prime Minister of Georgia I.Garibashvili;

November 11 – telephone conversation between the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine R.Stefanchuk and the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia K.Kuchava;

October 21-22 – the 10th meeting of the Joint Intergovernmental Ukrainian-Georgian Commission on Economic Cooperation;

October 5-7 – working visit of the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia K.Kuchava to Ukraine for participation in the events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy;

August 23 – participation of the Prime Minister of Georgia I.Garibashvili in the inaugural summit of the Crimean Platform;

August 21-22 – official visit of the Prime Minister of Georgia I.Garibashvili to Ukraine;

July 19 – working visit of the President of Ukraine V.Zelenskyy to Georgia for participation in the Batumi International Conference and signing the Declaration of the “Associated Trio” at the level of the Presidents of Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova with the participation of the President of the Council of Europe Sh.Michel;

June 23 – official visit of the President of Georgia S.Zourabichvili to Ukraine;

June 2-4 – official visit of the Prime Minister of Ukraine D.Shmyhal to Georgia;

May 17 – official visit of the Vice-Prime Minister of Georgia, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia D.Zalkaliani to Ukraine – meeting with the President of Ukraine V.Zelenskyy;

May 7 – telephone conversation between the Prime Minister of Ukraine D.Shmyhal and the Prime Minister of Georgia I.Garibashvili;

April 15 – telephone conversation between the President of Ukraine V. Zelenskyy and the President of Georgia S.Zourabichvili;

2020 

December 29 – telephone conversation between the Prime Minister of Ukraine D.Shmyhal and the Prime Minister of Georgia G.Gakharia;

2019:

December 13 – official visit of the Prime Minister of Georgia G.Gakharia to Ukraine (Kyiv) – meeting with the President of Ukraine V.Zelenskyy;

September 26 – meeting of the President of Ukraine V.Zelenskyy with the President of Georgia S.Zourabichvili in the framework of the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (New York);

September 1 – meeting of the President of Ukraine V.Zelenskyy with the President of Georgia S.Zourabichvili during the events commemorating the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War (Warsaw);

May 20 – meeting of the President of Ukraine V.Zelenskyy with the President of Georgia S.Zourabichvili during the inauguration ceremony (Kyiv).