Georgian president stresses “Europe has no alternative” on Diplomat’s Day

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”.

This year Georgia celebrated Diplomat’s Day on November 3, marking the birthday of the writer, public and historical political figure Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani. 

“Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani left us the right path and the right direction, a kind of action plan, the implementation of which was destined to the fathers of [the country’s] independence, heads of independent states, statesmen and diplomats”, Zourabichvili said.

Today, we are where we are precisely because there was first Sulkhan-Saba, and then there were our passionate patriots [and] diplomats, and they understood that the path [of European integration] we chose, no matter how difficult, had no alternative”, she noted.

Zourabichvili stressed the objective had been a “goal without alternatives for our ancestors”.

This struggle doesn’t end, the challenges are getting harder and the demands are increasing. More professionalism is needed, because the protection of the country's interests today takes place in many directions - diplomacy, politics, culture, economy, but also technologies, science, environmental protection, energy, cyber security and many others”, Zourabichvili concluded.