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Georgia's President Salome Zourabichvili thanked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people after Georgia achieved candidate status for European Union membership, Newsgeorgia agency reported on Dec. 15.
The U.S. "continues to strongly support the EU’s enlargement process, and we look forward to supporting EU candidate and prospective candidate countries as they continue critical reforms on the path to EU membership," said State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller.
The European Union's executive recommended on Wednesday that the bloc grants formal candidate status to Georgia, if and when it fulfils remaining conditions. "The Commission recommends that the (European) Council grants Georgia the status of a candidate country on the understanding that certain reforms that steps are taken," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
The EU's executive praises Kyiv's "excellent progress" and EU states will make a decision next month.
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