Ruling party official: authorities will prevent “dragging country into war no matter what”

Mamuka Mdinaradze, the Executive Secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday told Imedi TV the country’s authorities would work to prevent the country from being “dragged into the war” between Ukraine and Russia “no matter what”.

Mdinaradze alleged there were forces attempting to “drag this country into some bad situation - war, trouble” and “supporting blackmail coming from the outside”, adding the outcome was “not in the national interests”.

[The attempts] starting from the Swiss banking system [former Georgian PM Bidzina Ivanishvili’s long-running legal battle with Credit Suisse] [...] speculations about Saakashvili and the calls of representatives of Ukrainian authorities [for our country] to go to war - all of these have one great common root and goal to get this country into war”, the party official claimed.

“This country cannot enter the war - it is not in the Georgian national interests - and we will not do this no matter what happens. We will not drag this country into an unequal war, even if it costs us lives. Everyone should get used to this”, he told the channel.