Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area

And obviously the principle of many international law principles here, for example, Pacta Sonservanta, etc., play an important role when it comes to putting this international law piece into the legislative framework.

Therefore, Georgia's obligations regarding the legislative approximation, which is the biggest portion of the association agreement, obviously such as regulatory alignment and DCFTA, even more sectoral cooperation, and the institutional structures established by the association agreement obviously remain in place, remain applicable irrespective, regardless of whether the accession negotiations are actively progressing or not.

And this is also the core doctrinal argument usually in my latest research papers which I'm accounting on.

that the association agreement is not just a trade deal.

Well, there's also, what is an associate membership? W- it's, it's really difficult to talk about this because there's no clarity around it.

When, when Ukraine signed what is known as the DCFTA, the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement, with the European Union, it was shortly after that that Russia invaded Crimea.

Like, that is a real point at which it shifted this close relationship.

So Russia's not [laughs] not gonna go bombing U- Canada over this for sure, but it shows-