Unacceptable for foreign officials to interfere in Georgia’s domestic issues, says President
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Georgia’s President Giorgi Margvelashvili held a special briefing this afternoon about the recently released audio recordings that encouraged an alleged coup in Georgia.
Margvelashvili condemned the content of the leaked conversation, where Georgia’s ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili urged opposition United National Movement (UNM) leader Giga Bokeria and Rustavi 2 private broadcaster director Nika Gvaramia to plan unrest in the country in response to Rustavi’s 2 ownership dispute.
The President reminded everyone that one of Georgia's best achievements was changing the government through democratic elections.
"The epoch of revolutions completed in the country. Those who still think on such scenarios stand far from reality.
I have stated many times and I repeat that an official of some other state must not interfere in Georgia’s domestic issues and plan some kind of unrest,” Margvelashvili said.
The President appealed to the public to remain calm and not be provoked by the controversial conversation.
He stressed for people to act within the constitution, respect human rights and media freedom.
In the recent phone conversations ex-president Saakashvili told Gvaramia and Bokeria to transform the Rustavi 2 building into a fortress, with iron barricades and armed people, adding the situation should end with "shooting.”
The trio -Saakashvili, Bokeria and Gvaramia - confirmed the recordings were authentic.
Georgia’s State Security Service has addressed the Government of Ukraine today in connection to a phone conversation released last night that including threats of possible unrest and a coup in Georgia.
The director of the private broadcasting company Rustavi 2 Nika Gvaramia and the leader of opposition party United National Movement (UNM) Giga Bokeria approved the authenticity and content of recorded audio phone conversations with Georgia’s ex-president Saakashvili, which was published today by Ukrainian website www.uareview.in.ua.
The Prime Minister stressed thanks to democratic reforms carried out under the Georgian Dream (GD) coalition, media in Georgia had become free from Governmental interferences and advanced to new, positive levels.
A statement made by the director of private broadcasting company Rustavi 2 TV, which has become the subject of a legal depute between its current and former owners two months ago, is causing a stir and gaining a range of assessments in Georgia.
"As Prime Minister and as a citizen, I fully support any kind restoration of justice but in my opinion this is a controversy of two subjects which should go before judges at the court,” Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili told local media.
The Chief Prosecutors Office of Georgia has released interim results of their investigation into claims the Rustavi 2 television company was bugged.
Tbilisi has officially sent a letter of protest to Ukrainian officials in Kiev denouncing the fact Georgia's ex-president and current Odessa Governor Mikheil Saakashvili encouraged an alleged coup in Georgia.
The United States (US) Embassy in Tbilisi says it is unacceptable for anyone to advocate for violence in politics.
Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili has sent a letter to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko regarding the recently released phone conversations of Odessa Governor Mikheil Saakashvili, who was formerly the president of Georgia.
Georgia’s Constitutional Court has accepted an appeal from Tbilisi-based privately owned broadcasting company Rustavi 2 and ordered a temporary suspension of a normal clause in the country’s Civil Code after a challenge against the clause by Rustavi 2 lawyers.