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Germany and the EU are doing everything so that that Georgia could receive a visa-free regime with the EU as soon as possible, Foreign Minister of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier stated during a visit to Tbilisi on Friday.

According to him, the matter is not whether citizens of this country will go to Europe without visas, but when it will happen, RIA Novosti reported.

Liberalization of the visa regime is connected with certain formalities of European Parliament and does not depend only on Germany. Consultations, hearings in committees are conducted, allegedly, at the end of July all procedures will come to a end, and within September, probably, they  will receive results, Steinmeier said at the joint press conference with his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Janelidze.

German Foreign Minister said that Georgia has passed a long way to achieve success and fulfilled all the obligations.

The European Commission (EC) stated in December 2015 that Georgia has fulfilled all conditions for visa liberalization with the EU. In March 2016, the European Commission issued a legislative initiative on the abolition of visas for citizens of the republic.  The authorities of Georgia planed that the EU will abolish visas for the citizens of the country this summer, but consideration of this issue was postponed in early June. Process was dragged out, because of fears of Germany and France.

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