Sybiha: Ukraine seeks to "open new page" in relations with Georgia

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said Ukraine wants to open a "new page" in relations with Georgia, although "sensitive" issues remain between the two countries.

Sybiha said in a comment to Georgian media outlet Euroscope that he plans to meet his Georgian counterpart Maka Botchorishvili in Moldova on 14 or 15 May. A meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe will take place in Chișinău on those dates.

He said the meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, had been "historical".

"We are open to continuing this constructive dialogue. In Moldova, in the nearest future, I will have the meeting in Moldova with my counterpart from Georgia. So, we want to settle properly diplomatic track of our bilateral relations…" he added.

On 4 May, Volodymyr Zelenskyy met Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on the sidelines of the European Political Community summit in Armenia.

In 2024, Kobakhidze and a number of other members of the Georgian ruling party came under 10-year sanctions from Ukraine.

After his conversation with Zelenskyy, Kobakhidze noted that despite the existing difficulties, the two countries shared "a traditional historical friendship" between the two countries and that the Georgian side was ready to do everything to normalise relations between Georgia and Ukraine.