Govt’s constant task is to protect Georgia’s national interests - PM
The PM wished Georgia’s Ukrainian friends peace and an ending of the war “as quickly as possible”, as well as the return of their [Russian-occupied] territories, and stressed “nothing could recover” Ukraine’s “heavy losses”, including casualties of Ukrainian people and children. Photo via Government Administration
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The Georgian Government’s constant task is to protect the national interests and needs of the country and its people, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said on Saturday, the Government Administration said.
Garibashvili told the media the Government managed to have an “unprecedentedly” high, “double-digit” growth in economy, despite the “unpredictable situation all over the world” and maintain peace amid the attempts to involve Georgia in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. There have been direct statements from the Ukrainian authorities affirming their goal to open a “second battlefront” in Georgia, he noted.
Sending the former President Mikheil Saakashvili to Georgia and constant provocations [by the Ukrainian authorities] have served this goal", the Head of the Government added.
The PM wished Georgia’s Ukrainian friends peace and an ending of the war “as quickly as possible”, as well as the return of their [Russian-occupied] territories, and stressed “nothing could recover” Ukraine’s “heavy losses”, including casualties of Ukrainian people and children.
The parties [of the conflict] need to somehow return to the negotiating table, Garibashvili emphasised, adding the difficult environment created in Ukraine and throughout the world, as well as in the Black Sea region, became “more unpredictable”.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday told a Government meeting his team had "done everything” to ensure “peace, stability and high economic growth” in the country, while pointing to 2022 economic growth numbers and “historically low” levels of poverty and unemployment in the country.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday said “maintaining peace” in the country would be “one of the main challenges” for authorities in 2023.
Georgia’s Vice Prime Minister Thea Tsulukiani on Saturday told the media the Georgian Government would not allow the country to be involved in the military confrontation.
Irakli Kadagishvili, the Chair of the Rules and Procedural Issues Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, on Tuesday said the charge d'affaires of Ukraine to Georgia, Andriy Kasyanov’s “shocking” statement on Tbilisi’s refusal to provide arms for Ukraine in its ongoing war with Russia had been instructed by Ukrainian Government, as the diplomat would not make such statements “independently”.
Georgian Agriculture Minister Otar Shamugia on Thursday told the country’s Parliament the “responsibility” of the Government to “maintain peace [and] prevent a difficult political, social and economic situation” in the country had gained a further significance since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.