Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga: Martin SCHULZ, EP President meeting with:- Irakli GARIBACHVILI, Prime Minister of Georgia - Petro POROCHENKO, Ukrainian President  - Werner FAYMANN, Austrian Chancellor - Final statement by Martin SCHULZ, EP President

statement

meeting

POROSHENKO, Petro (UA)

SCHULZ, Martin (S&D, DE)

FAYMANN, Werner (AT)

GARIBASHVILI, Irakli (GE)

Riga

Latvia

Eastern Partnership Summit (T)

Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga: Martin SCHULZ, EP President meeting with Irakli GARIBACHVILI, Prime Minister of Georgia - Petro POROCHENKO, Ukrainian President - Werner FAYMANN, Austrian Chancellor  - Final statement by Martin SCHULZ, EP Presiden

Establishing shots of the summit venue, the Latvian National Library, Riga (4 shots)

Handshake between Martin SCHULZ, EP President and Irakli GARIBASHVILI, Prime Minister of Georgia

Handshakes at trilateral meeting between Martin SCHULZ, EP President, Petro POROSCHENKO, President of Ukraine and Werner FAYMANN, Federal Chancellor of Austria (2 shots)

Summit atmosphere and EP President Martin SCHULZ talking to press (4 shots)

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, &ldquo;The meeting with the Prime Minister of Georgia was I think my fourth meeting with him and I am impressed about the personality, he tries really to bring his country forward under very specific and difficult circumstances in the country. He was very disappointed about the visa regime, and I think we have to work on that. I take note that the visa debate is also a debate not only concerning the countries of the Eastern partnership, it concerns also internal domestic debate in the union.&rdquo;

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, &ldquo;Concerning the meeting with Petro POROSCHENKO, I prepared my visit to Kiev on the 2nd of July to sign a cooperation agreement with the Ukrainian parliament, and I was listening very carefully about his worries about the economic development in the country. But he explained also the reform steps his government has undertaken during the last month, especially in fighting against corruption, and passing laws reducing the impact and the power of oligarchs.&rdquo;

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, &ldquo;It was good that we were here, but it was nothing but an intermediary step, there&rsquo;s still a lot of problems ahead without solution, it is from the Ukrainian conflict until the visa regime.&rdquo;

SOUNDBITE (English), Martin SCHULZ, EP President, &ldquo;I found it also very important, by the way also significant, that for example Azerbaijan blocked for a certain moment the final declaration. It is difficult when democracies have a discussion with countries that are not fulfilling all democracy criteria, and therefore we still have a long list of problems to solve.&rdquo;