Embassy of Georgia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

In 2021, Georgia marks two important anniversaries: five years since the completion (December 2015) of the Visa Liberalisation Action Plan (VLAP) and four years since Georgian citizens first enjoyed the right to visa-free travel in the EU/Schengen Area (March 2017). More importantly, this process ha...

Today (14 April) Georgia celebrates Georgian Language Day (Mother Language Day). Whilst this day was first celebrated in 1990, its history goes back to the Soviet Union’s plans to scrap the official status of the language in the Soviet Republic of Georgia in 1978.

Today Georgia marks the 32nd anniversary of the tragic events of 9 April 1989, when Soviet army brutally dispersed a peaceful demonstration on Rustaveli Avenue, in the heart of Georgian capital.

We are deeply concerned by the increasing number of ceasefire violations by the Russian Federation in eastern Ukraine and recent unprecedented military buildup of the Russian forces in Crimea, Ukraine and along Ukraine's eastern borders, as well as the Kremlin's aggressive rhetoric. We are alarmed b...