On September 13, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Georgian government and Minister of the Economy and Sustainable Development Dimitry Kumsishvili stated at a press conference that Tbilisi and Beijing had finalized a free trade agreement between their two countries. “China’s Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng plans to visit Tbilisi to sign a memorandum of understanding,” Kumsishvili said. The agreement will be signed in December and come into force in the middle of 2017, he added. The deputy prime minister emphasized that Georgia concluded its free trade negotiations with China in record time—only seven months. “It took other countries from five …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation