Ruling party Sec Gen: “awkward” to talk about Georgia’s military neutrality with war in Ukraine
Kaladze called comments on the possibility of Georgia adopting military neutrality “damaging” and said they “hindered the peaceful and stable development” of the country. Photo: Tbilisi City Hall
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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.
Kaladze called comments on the possibility of Georgia adopting military neutrality “damaging” and said they “hindered the peaceful and stable development” of the country.
It is very awkward to talk about this topic when the war in Ukraine is going on [and] the entire world, including our country, faces serious challenges. [This is a] country with 20 percent of its territory occupied by Russia. Such actions, such statements are damaging and hinder the peace, calm and a stable development of our country,” Kaladze told reporters.
On Tuesday, Gia Volski, the ruling party MP and Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, said Georgia would 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.
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.
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.
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.
Restoring Georgia’s territorial integrity by force is not planned by the Government and is “not in our interests”, Gia Volski, the ruling party MP and Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, said on Friday.
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.