Euronews: “Georgia will send Olympians to Sochi.”

Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili highlighted issues surrounding Georgia’s attendance at the Sochi Olympic in his interview with Euronews, broadcast and published on February 4.

No Georgian Governmental officials will attend the Sochi Olympics but athletes would participate in it, Garibashvili stated.

We made a decision that Georgian athletes will participate in the Sochi Winter Olympic Games. It was a very hard decision for us because [Russia] violated Georgia’s occupied territory of Abkzazia. Therefore, since we do not have diplomatic relations with Russia it was hard for us to make this decision, however we made this decision. We must separate sport from politics and we said athletes will go there and we did so.|/

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