Ruling party MP: gov’t intends to maintain “desperately needed” peace

The Government of Georgia intends to maintain peace in Georgia on the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while the opposition is “using the catastrophe” to come to power, ruling Georgian Dream party MP Sozar Subari said on Wednesday.

Subari, the Chair of the Parliamentary Committee for Regional Policy and Self-government, said the ongoing crisis required “special caution” from the government in the context of the presence of Russian occupying forces “30 kilometres from Tbilisi”, a reference to the troops in the occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region of central Georgia.

The Parliament member was responding to controversy stemming from the opposition’s criticism of the government’s stance on the conflict, and accused opposition parties of “us[ing] this catastrophe to come to power” instead of a genuine support for Ukraine.

The Georgian government [...] intends to maintain peace in Georgia that we so desperately need in these difficult times,” Subari said while raising the topic of armed conflicts on the Georgian territory over the last three decades to point to a necessity of avoiding another flashpoint.

Subari said there was “no country that is more in solidarity with Ukraine than Georgia” in the reality of the ongoing Russian military operation.