GEORGIA'S RULING PARTY LEADER VISITS CHINA IN PUSH FOR DEEPER TIES

The leader of Georgia's ruling party began a six-day visit to China on Monday, as the European Union candidate member country seeks to deepen its relations with Beijing. Irakli Kobakhidze, the chairman of the governing Georgian Dream bloc, met the head of the Chinese Communist Party's International Department on Monday. Kobakhidze stressed the need to deepen Tbilisi's political and economic relations with Beijing, and to fully implement a partnership agreement signed between the two countries last year.

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