Parliament Speaker calls on UNM to stop boycott

United National Movement continues boycott. The parliamentary minority demands responsibility of MP Soso Jachvliani for his part of the physical altercation which occurred at the Parliament of Georgia on December 11.

As one of the UNM leaders MP David Darchiashvili said, "Parliament Speaker David Usupashvili has to take control over the situation.  The minority demands the Parliament Speaker to openly and clearly state his position regarding the incident and make timely and adequate measures.

"His reaction was inadequate. His statements cannot be counted as a reaction. We have to implement our parliamentary responsibility in some other ways, then, - Darchiashvili said.  

David Usupashvili, however, argues that he is not a nursery school director to set someone in the corner with the aim of punishment and achieve the desired result in this way.  As Parliament Speaker explained, he immediately issued an order to turn off MP Jatchvlianis microphone as soon as his remarks went beyond the permissible limits.

"I appeal to both the majority and minority. Lets take a lesson from yesterdays case. The majority has to realize that we are the majority and bear more responsibility and tolerance, no matter what is happening, because the countrys fate is in our hands, - Usupashvili said.

As for the minority, he called on them to review and consider previous parliamentary sessions carefully when several MPs from the majority may have been driven to the far worse mood than GiorgiBaramidze had on December 11.  

"At that moment, I started taking measures and neither party gave me an opportunity for this. If the same will happen again at the parliament, then I am not going to be involved and the law will decide. Whether there fight inside the Parliament or in the street, it is a punishable offence", - Parliament Speaker explained.  

He also called on the National Movement to continue working in the usual manner from today.  

"Lets forget about December 11 as it is a shameful day in the Parliamentary life, - Usupashvili added.  

A shameful day refers to the incident at the Georgian Parliament when MP GiorgiBaramidze from the opposition UNM party and MP from the Georgian Dream coalition were in a physical altercation.  Baramidze had demanded to release the letter that would condemn developments in Ukraine.

  Jatchvliani assessed what is going on in Ukraine as very bad, though he said that the "National Movement first of all has to condemn the unrest in Tbilisi on November 7, 2007 and the protest rally in Tbilisi on May 26, 2011.Jachvliani called on the law enforcers to investigate all the details and then made a verbal insult that was followed by a physical altercation between the parties.