This motion was part of a Georgia-EU action plan agreed last November. The final decision was reached during bilateral consultations in Brussels in mid-May.
"From June 1, 2007, Georgia has been granted the right to regularly subscribe to EU political statements, which will be adopted as part of a common foreign and security policy," the Georgian Foreign Ministry said, adding this would bring Georgia closer to the EU.
Georgia has been seeking accession to the EU and NATO since Western-educated President Mikheil Saakashvili came to power in the former Soviet nation of five million as a result of a popular uprising in 2003.
"Georgia takes an active part in pursuing the common foreign and security policies of the EU, and now it has been allowed to express its position on global political events together with the 27 EU members," the ministry said.
