Ruling party MP: Opposition’s “great efforts” to involve Georgia’s intl partners against country’s EU integration “regrettable”
The Ambassadors’ interest regarding Saakashvili’s health is “not surprising”, the Georgian Committee Chair said, adding she was “sure” they had received all answers from the Justice Minister to their questions. Photo via Parliament of Georgia
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Maka Botchorishvili, the Head of the European Integration Committee in the Georgian Parliament, on Thursday said it was “regrettable” to see domestic opposition and imprisoned former President Mikheil Saakashvili “putting forth such great efforts” against the country’s European integration and trying to involve Georgia’s international partners in this process.
Botchorishvili was responding to the European Commissioner for Budget and Administration Johannes Hahn’s statement, which he made earlier today during the debate in the European Parliament and said Hahn, along with the EU representatives in Georgia, had made a “formal démarche” to Justice Minister Rati Bregadze at the meeting on December 28 and expressed concern about Saakashvili’s health. Hahn added the Georgian Government had to take “all necessary” measures to “protect” the former President’s health.
The Ambassadors’ interest regarding Saakashvili’s health is “not surprising”, the Georgian Committee Chair said, adding she was “sure” they had received all answers from the Justice Minister to their questions.
Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze on Wednesday called on everyone to stop “politicising” the execution of justice and “supporting” the imprisoned former President Mikheil Saakashvili’s “self-harm”.
Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze on Wednesday said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s statement alleging that the Georgian Government had been torturing the imprisoned former President Mikheil Saakashvili was “unfair and insulting”.
Kakha Kaladze, the Mayor of Tbilisi and the Secretary General of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Monday said it was “categorically unacceptable” to draw parallels between cases involving the imprisoned former President Mikheil Saakashvili and prospects of Georgia joining the European Union.
Archil Talakvadze, the Georgian parliament’s vice speaker, on Wednesday said the domestic opposition had attempted to portray the conditions set by the European Union for granting the country the membership candidate status as “something very unusual and negative”, which he claimed stemmed from its efforts to act “against the country’s European integration”.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Friday said the European Commission’s new report on Georgia had revealed that under an “objective decision” the country should “definitely” receive a European Union membership candidate status this year.