Ruling party head highlights “peace, double-digit growth” in Georgia on backdrop of challenges
In comments criticising the domestic opposition, Kobakhidze told Imedi TV the public could see which political force was a “guarantor of peace” and who, in contrast, “opposes this important benefit” for the country. Photo: Georgian Dream Press Office
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Irakli Kobakhidze, the chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Thursday highlighted the resilience in Georgia enjoying “peace and double-digit economic growth” on the backdrop of widespread effects of the war in Ukraine and economic crisis in the wider region.
In comments criticising the domestic opposition, Kobakhidze told Imedi TV the public could see which political force was a “guarantor of peace” and who, in contrast, “opposes this important benefit” for the country.
There is no country left around us that has not been affected in some way by either war or economic crisis - at such a time we have peace and double-digit economic growth. This is today's situation and the public appreciates it”, the GD official said in an interview with the channel.
Gia Volski, a ruling party MP and the vice speaker of the Georgian parliament, on Thursday said the “main task” of the domestic opposition was to ensure the “destabilisation” of the political environment in the country, after a section of the opposition boycotted a parliament bill proposed for fulfilling European Union-outlined priorities for Georgia.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Thursday said the statement by the United States embassy that lamented this week’s court decision keeping Mtavari Arkhi TV director in imprisonment was a “direct interference” in the independence of the country’s judiciary.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Thursday said the visit of a delegation of the parliamentary assembly of Belarus and Russia to Georgia’s Russian-occupied Abkhazia region was “disturbing”.
Georgian prime minister Irakli Garibashvili on Thursday congratulated Georgian diplomats on their professional day by saying they “honourably fulfilled” their mission and continued the legacy of their “great ancestors”.
Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili marked the annual domestic Diplomat’s Day by saying the professional day of envoys and diplomats “really belongs to everyone who has contributed to the protection of Georgia's interests”.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Sunday received the highest prize of the Sabino Arana Foundation for his contribution to promoting Georgian-Basque ties, democracy and human rights, the party press office said.