Gov’t rejects “false information” on PM’s charter flight to US
The Service also said the PM used “regular, commercial flights of various airlines” during both official and and private visits to the US. Photo: Government of Georgia Press Office
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The Strategic Communications Service of the Government of Georgia on Thursday dismissed “false information” in media reports that said Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili had travelled to the United States with his son on a Government-funded charter flight in August.
In the statement, the Service said a charter flight had carried the PM to “one of the cities of Europe” but added the travel to the US had been organised using a “regular flight”.
It added the state budget had not been used for travel “or any other purpose” in the “private visit”.
The Service also said the PM used “regular, commercial flights of various airlines” during both official and and private visits to the US.
The news reported by a local media outlet, alleging that Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has business interests in a “specific” private project, is “false and unsubstantiated information”, the Department of Strategic Communications of the Georgian Government on Saturday declared.
The Department of Strategic Communications of the Georgian Government on Monday rejected the “misinformation campaign and deliberate misinterpretation” by some “politically engaged media” of the statement by the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili made on Sunday in an interview with Imedi TV.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Tuesday said anyone who considered themselves a friend of the Georgian people must focus on “not encouraging a radical agenda in the country”, in reference to a part of the domestic opposition’s stance.
The Department of Strategic Communication of the Georgian Government on Thursday rejected as “disinformation” a tweet by a researcher of the Georgian-based Economic Policy Research Center thinktank that alleged Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili had claimed Georgia’s Western partners had wanted to drag the country “into the war” in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The Strategic Communications Service of the Government of Georgia on Sunday rejected “fake reports” by a domestic, opposition-minded TV Pirveli channel that said Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili had travelled to the United States with his son on a Government-funded charter flight in August.
Revaz Javelidze, the Head of the Government Administration, on Sunday responded to reports by a domestic, opposition-minded TV Pirveli channel on Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili’s alleged trip to the United States with his son on a budget-funded charter flight in August, and called them “slanderous” and “false”.
Kakha Kaladze, the Mayor of Tbilisi and the Secretary General of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Sunday alleged a “deliberate campaign of lies” around foreign travels of Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and his family.
Anzor Chubinidze, the Head of the Special State Protection Service, on Tuesday said the Georgian Prime Minister's father, Tariel Garibashvili, had paid for the charter flight of the PM to Munich in August that became a subject of domestic TV reports for allegations on its expenses.