Parliament Vice Speaker: Russia's initiatives directly aimed at internal strife and social division in Georgia
Ioseliani said it was “not accidental” that Russia’s Russia’s Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision state body only granted the permission for import of dairy products from Georgia last week. Photo: 1TV.ge.
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Many of Russia's initiatives are directly aimed at causing internal strife and social division in Georgia, Levan Ioseliani, the Vice Speaker of the Parliament and MP from the opposition Citizens party, said in comments to the reveal of the Russian supervision authorities allowing importation of certain Georgian-made products on the backdrop of the war in Ukraine.
Ioseliani said it was “not accidental” that Russia’s Russia’s Veterinary and Phytosanitary Supervision state body only granted the permission for import of dairy products from Georgia last week, in response to Georgian companies’ application for the right in 2020.
Russia has always acted like this, and we should be smart and experienced. We should avoid sending cheap messages, or quarrelling over dairy products,” Ioseliani said in comments on measures to be taken on the political scene in Georgia.
Ioseliani added he hoped the companies who have been granted the right to bring their products to the Russian market would not “take advantage” of the opportunity, and would take into account “the context of Ukraine”, in reference to the country’s ongoing invasion by Russia.
Levan Davitashvili, the Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, said on Monday the Rosselkhoznadzor’s approval of Georgian-made dairy products had come last week, “when the Russian side proactively decided that there might have been positive decisions concerning the applications received from Georgia” in 2020.
On March 5, the Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti reported the Rosselkhoznadzor had permitted 15 Georgian companies to supply milk and dairy products to Russia.