 A ceremony on the initialling of the AA by the Georgian Foreign Minister Maia Panjikidze and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton was held at the Eastern Partnership summit on 29 November 2013.It was formally signed on 27 June 2014, and had to be ratified by the EU, Euratom, their member states and Georgia.A second agreement, governing the country's involvement in EU crisis management operations, was also signed.