Minister of Justice, Rati Bregadze held an introductory meeting today with Hungarian Ambassador, Anna Maria Shikos. The conversation touched upon the deepening of sectoral cooperation between the Ministries of Justice of Georgia and Hungary. The Minister proposed to the Hungarian ambassador to strengthen the partnership in the direction of legal cooperation in civil matters. Rati Bregadze expressed his readiness to host his Hungarian counterpart in Georgia so that the Justice Ministers of the two countries could sign a bilateral agreement on mutual legal assistance in civil matters. Rati Bregadze noted that the agreement will further deepen partnership relations between Georgia and Hungary and will be a logical continuation of the cooperation on which the two countries' Justice Ministers agreed within the framework of the memorandum of understanding signed in December last year.

At the meeting, the parties discussed the expert assistance of the Hungarian side in the issues of convergence of Georgian legislation with EU law; as well as exchange programs for employees of the Ministry of Justice of the two countries, and the prospects of holding a Hungarian-Georgian legal forum in Georgia.

Deputy Minister of Justice, Beka Dzamashvili also attended the meeting with the Hungarian ambassador.