Ruling party head: opposition using war in Ukraine to damage country
The ruling party head told local media the Government of Georgia was protecting the interests of the state and its citizens, and would not allow the country to be “drawn into a war or cause irreparable damage” to the economic interests of the population. Photo: Georgian Dream Press Service
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Georgia is the only country in the world where the opposition is using the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine for a campaign to damage this country, the ruling Georgian Dream party head Irakli Kobakhidze said on Friday.
The comment by Kobakhidze came following an interview of Khatia Dekanoidze, the leader of the opposition United National Movement party, with a Ukrainian TV channel, in which Kobakhidze said the opposition figure had portrayed the Georgian government as “pro-Russian, accused Georgia of pursuing a Russia-oriented policy and, moreover, accused Georgia of supporting the murder of Ukrainians”.
It is obvious that the radical opposition, the fifth column represented by United National Movement, has the sole goal of worsening the economic and social situation of the Georgian people by imposing sanctions [on Russia] and involving Georgia in the war, Kobakhidze said.
The ruling party head told local media the Government of Georgia was protecting the interests of the state and its citizens, and would not allow the country to be “drawn into a war or cause irreparable damage” to the economic interests of the population.
The international community must do its best to stop the war in Ukraine, Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said on Friday.
The situation in Ukraine is a “catastrophe” and the entire world must “wake up” and stand up to such events in the 21st century, Mikheil Sarjveladze, the Chairman of the Committee on Human Rights of the Georgian Parliament, told journalists on Thursday.
The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party Head Irakli Kobakhidze met on Monday with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to Georgia Mark Clayton, the Press Service of the Parliament of Georgia reports.
The war in Ukraine is “categorically unacceptable” and we all pray that it will end as soon as possible, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili told Monday’s Government meeting.
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.
The Georgian Government has been doing “everything” to support Ukraine that can be done by a country that has parts of its territory occupied, President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili said in an interview released by Euronews on Wednesday.
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.
Political opposition in Georgia exhibits “double standards” in its differing reception to messages by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Georgian Dream party head Irakli Kobakhidze about unacceptability of ethnic discrimination of Russians leaving the country on the back of the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, GD MP Rati Ionatamishvili said on Friday.
Georgia stands with the Ukrainian people and has taken a “firm stance” “wherever” political support has been needed, the ruling Georgian Dream party head Irakli Kobakhidze said on Thursday in an interview with Imedi TV.
The Georgian Government remains committed to the policy of peaceful de-occupation and will resist “all provocations” aimed at escalating a new military confrontation with “our Abkhaz and Ossetian brothers and sisters,” Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said on Monday.
A hearing of a court case of the imprisoned former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Wednesday was temporarily suspended after he claimed he needed medical attention.
Georgian officials were not present at the G7 Summit because the country is “not connected with the war” unlike Ukraine and Moldova, Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said on Saturday.