The United Georgia – Democratic Movement party says its leader Nino Burjanadze has not apologized for developments around Gavrilov’s visit to Tbilisi at the meeting with the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Russia’s Federation Council, Konstantin Kosachyov.

“The meeting with the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Russia’s Federation Council, Konstantin Kosachyov, was focused on the issue related to imprisonment of Georgian doctor Vazha Gapridashvili. The sides also discussed air flights between Georgia and Russia.

Unfortunately, several edition attempted to ignore this information. It has been reported referring to Russian media that Nino Burjanadze apologized for the Gavrilov incident at a meeting with Kosachyov. We would like to emphasize that Nino Burjanadze did not apologize to anyone, especially regarding Gavrilov's visit. In all of her speeches, the leader of the United Georgia-Democratic Movement, both in Georgia and in the Russian Federation, has always claimed that Sergei Gavrilov did not sit in the chair of the parliament’s chairman by the own initiative, but the government of Georgia put him there and could not even protect the guest when the situation worsened. This is what was reiterated at the meeting with Kosachyov – she said the fact was regrettable but did not apologize for, "said Jilda Machavariani, head of the United Georgia-Democratic Movement's press office.