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EUMM Head Marek Szczygieł Meets TSU Students 

The issues of the implementation of the EU Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP), as well as the EUMM’s role in contributing to security and stability in Georgia and the wider region were discussed by Ambassador Marek Szczygieł, Head of the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM) in Georgia, at a meeting with students of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU) on July 6.  
 

Rector of TSU, George Sharvashidze, students of the English-language MA degree program in European Studies of the TSU Institute for European Studies and the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, as well as professors attended the meeting. “The meeting was very interesting. The Head of the EU Monitoring Mission talked about current issues such as ‘borderization’, confidence building, all other issues the Mission is engaged in. It is important for the students to receive first-hand information about the situation in the occupied regions, as well as about the European Union’s policy and how the current situation can be improved,” Rector Sharvashidze said. 
 

During the meeting, TSU students asked questions about the mission’s activities in Georgia and, in general, the EU policy in the wider region. 
 

After the meeting, Ambassador Marek Szczygieł said that he was “very much impressed” by the quality of questions and the level of knowledge of the students. “For us, it is a good opportunity to promote our activities. Finally, I hope, after the COVID-19 pandemic, we are able to reach out to different groups of the Georgian society and this is very important in order to inform about our activities, also to collect some feedback to share information and to spread this knowledge among not only students, but also different actors from civil society, from local population. So, this is part of the broader program of our outreach activities,” Ambassador Szczygieł noted. 
 

“It is important to see this role, this presence of the EUMM Georgia here not only purely from the perspective of our daily activities, but also to see it as the tangible political commitment of the European Union for the security and stability of Georgia and the wider region. This is a long-term commitment, this is part of the core EU strategic approach, and we are here as long as necessary,” he added.  
 

Megi Jalagonia, a student of the MA Program in European Studies, said that “such meetings contribute to raising awareness and exchanging information about the mechanisms implemented by the monitoring mission in Georgia. Ambassador Szczygieł gave comprehensive answers to the questions asked.” 
 

The meeting was organized by Nino Lapiashvili, director of the TSU Institute for European Studies, and Pikria Asanishvili, head of the master’s program of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences.