Georgian PM hoping Georgia gets EU candidate status by yearend

TBILISI. March 13 (Interfax) - Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has said he is hoping that Georgia will get the EU candidate status by the end of this year.

"We are expecting that, once we are doing everything possible, we should get the status by the end of this year. If that's about a deserved admission. Our country deserves the candidate status," Garibashvili said on the TV channel Imedi on Sunday.