Chairman of Parliament Committee on Human Rights: opposition attempts to present Gov’t as not being in solidarity with Ukraine “absurd”
Sarjveladze accused the opposition of using “all means, whether rational or not, ethical or unethical,” in its false portrayals of the Government, despite the latter’s repeated statements and actions supporting Ukraine in the ongoing war. Photo: Parliament of Georgia
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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.
Sarjveladze accused the opposition of using “all means, whether rational or not, ethical or unethical,” in its false portrayals of the Government, despite the latter’s repeated statements and actions supporting Ukraine in the ongoing war.
They try to somehow worsen the relations between Georgia and Ukraine in this difficult situation for Ukraine. This is a political juggling,” Sarjveladze said.
On March 11, ruling Georgian Dream party head Irakli Kobakhidze said Georgia was the “only country in the world” where the opposition was using the war unleashed by Russia in Ukraine for a “campaign to damage this country”.
The ruling party head told local media the Government 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.
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.
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 methods used by Russia against the independence and sovereignty of Ukraine are the same it used against Georgia 14 years ago, Nikoloz Samkharadze, who chairs the Georgian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, 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.
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.
The Georgian Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development on Friday issued a statement denying a media report on a Russian Air Force aircraft crossing Georgian airspace between Moscow and Yerevan.
The ruling Georgian Dream party and opposition MPs on Sunday asserted the country was on a “peaceful path” and would not get involved in war, following remarks by Oleksiy Danilov, the Ukrainian Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, who said Georgia would “greatly help” Ukraine by opening military fronts against Russia to forcefully regain control over the occupied breakaway Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions.
The citizens living in Georgia’s Russian-occupied territories should know the Government’s position that the country’s territorial integrity can only be restored through peaceful means and not through use of force, Sozar Subari, an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party, said at a Parliament plenary sitting today.
Representatives of the Georgian parliamentary majority would be ready to visit Ukraine after technicalities for a trip to the country are resolved, Mamuka Mdinaradze, the Executive Secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said on Monday.
Georgia continues to support Ukraine, and a delegation of the country’s Parliament will be ready to visit Ukraine “when opportunity arises,” Parliament Vice Speaker Archil Talakvadze said on Tuesday.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Wednesday confirmed his readiness to visit Ukraine on invitation from his Ukrainian counterpart Ruslan Stefanchuk, with the trip aimed to support the country amid the Russian invasion.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday said “any war where Georgians and Abkhazians, and Georgians and Ossetians face each other” with weapons again should not be allowed.