Parliament Vice Speaker: Georgia's foreign policy course “firmly defined”
"If Western and international partners develop additional security guarantees for Ukraine in the future to ensure Ukraine's peaceful development and security, of course, such additional security guarantees will be needed for Georgia”, the Parliament Vice Speaker said. Photo: Parliament's press office.
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Georgia's foreign policy course is “firmly defined”, Archil Talakvadze, the Vice Speaker of the Parliament, said on Tuesday in response to a question about potential military neutrality of the country.
Talakvadze said Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine posed challenges to “all countries” in rethinking their “security circumstances”.
"If Western and international partners develop additional security guarantees for Ukraine in the future to ensure Ukraine's peaceful development and security, of course, such additional security guarantees will be needed for Georgia”, the Parliament Vice Speaker said.
Talakvadze added Georgia was ready to discuss “additional steps” that could be taken with international partners to ensure the country received “more long-term security guarantees”.
The main interest of the Government on the backdrop of the conflict in Ukraine is to protect the security of the country and its citizens, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Monday while also criticising the opposition for holding protests observed in “no other country”.
A “vast majority” of Georgian citizens share views with the Government on steps taken to ensure national interests on the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Monday in comments to the survey by Georgian Opinion Research Business International (GORBI).
The “order” from the “vast majority” of our population to the Government is “peace", Vladimer Chachibaia, the Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Defence and Security, said on Monday in response to a poll conducted by the Georgian Opinion Research Business International (GORBI).
Georgia has always been a good partner in complying with international sanctions, Kelly Degnan, the United States Ambassador to Georgia, told journalists on Thursday.
The Georgian Government will not take back its demand of withdrawal of Russian occupation troops from the country’s occupied territories, Archil Talakvadze, the Vice Speaker of the Parliament, said on Tuesday.
Georgia will not start talking about military neutrality in the wake of the war in Ukraine, as “a lot of energy and human life has been invested” in strengthening the country’s NATO membership path, Gia Volski, the ruling party MP and Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, said on Tuesday.
The “radical opposition” in Georgia is “probing” the issue of neutrality of Georgia, presumably with “direct reference” from Russia, Giorgi Khelashvili, the First Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, said at a bureau meeting of the Parliament on Tuesday.
Mamuka Mdinaradze, the Executive Secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party, has accused the United National Movement opposition party of waging a “hybrid war” against the country through “anti-state actions”.
Statements related to possibilities of Georgia adopting military neutrality are “nothing but grist to the mill of the enemy”, Georgian Minister of Culture Thea Tsulukiani said on Tuesday in response to comments around the subject.
Georgians stand with the Ukrainian people in their fight for freedom, peace and prosperity against the Russian aggression, Otar Grigolia, the Chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party faction in Tbilisi City Council, told the 42nd Plenary Session of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe on Wednesday.
It is “awkward” to talk about Georgia adopting military neutrality while both the country and the “entire world” are facing “serious challenges”, Kakha Kaladze, the Mayor of Tbilisi and Secretary General of the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party, said on Wednesday in response to comments around the subject.
Companies or individuals that have been subject to international sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine are barred from registering as entities in Georgia, Kakha Kaladze, the Mayor of Tbilisi, said on Monday.