Mikheil Saakashvili met with the Special Representative of the European Union on crisis issues in the South Caucasus and Georgia – Philippe Lefort, at the Presidential Palace. The sides discussed the stability and security of the Eastern localities of the EU as well as increasing the role of the EU in the process of peacefully resolving the Russian-Georgian conflict.

The ceasefire agreement of August 2008, the current situation in the occupied territories and the conditions of the IDPs were also among the main topics of discussion during the meeting.