Ruling party Executive Secretary: Georgian parliamentary majority MPs “ready to visit Ukraine”
The Georgian Dream party official said his Government had not received an answer to “any of the issues” raised in Papuashvili's response to the invitation. Photo: !TV.ge
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Representatives of the Georgian parliamentary majority would be ready to visit Ukraine after technicalities for a trip to the country are resolved, Mamuka Mdinaradze, the Executive Secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said on Monday.
Responding to a recent invitation by the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine for Georgian authorities to visit locations where Russian troops have committed atrocities, Mdinaradze said a visit could take place “when the issue is agreed in protocol”.
The ruling party member said “several members” of the parliamentary majority would be ready to visit Ukraine for the purpose.
Mdinaradze also commented on the response from the Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili to his counterpart from the Verkhovna Rada on a recent invitation to Bucha, where invading Russian forces have been reported to have committed atrocities.
The Georgian Dream party official said his Government had not received an answer to “any of the issues” raised in Papuashvili's response to the invitation.
Papuashvili had said Ukrainian authorities’ "request [for Georgia] to open a second front [against Russia], diplomatic demarches [by Ukrainian officials], and unfounded accusations on [Georgia] creating smuggling channels for sanctioned products for Russia" went contrary to the invitation.
With the response, Papuashvili on April 8 declined the invitation of his Ukrainian counterpart to visit Bucha, saying it would be “inappropriate” on the backdrop of the grievances listed in the reply.
Papuashvili still stressed the Georgian Government was using “all international platforms” for providing “legal and political assessment” of the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
The ruling Georgian Dream party and opposition MPs on Sunday asserted the country was on a “peaceful path” and would not get involved in war, following remarks by Oleksiy Danilov, the Ukrainian Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, who said Georgia would “greatly help” Ukraine by opening military fronts against Russia to forcefully regain control over the occupied breakaway Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions.
The opposition is trying to “artificially create” a situation to present the Georgian Government as not being in solidarity with Ukraine amid Russian invasion of the latter in an “absurd” attempt, Mikheil Sarjveladze, the Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights of the Georgian Parliament, told Imedi TV on Friday.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili reaffirmed the Government’s support for Ukraine amid Russia’s military aggression in a letter to Ruslan Stefanchuk, the Chair of the Verkhovna Rada, on Saturday.
Georgia continues to support Ukraine, and a delegation of the country’s Parliament will be ready to visit Ukraine “when opportunity arises,” Parliament Vice Speaker Archil Talakvadze said on Tuesday.