For more than two and a half years, we have been witnessing a devastating war, a war that no one thought would ever happen again in Europe. Russia's large-scale war against Ukraine shocked many. We, Georgians, have stood by our Ukrainian friends since the first day of the war and will continue to do so, because no one knows better than us the pain of war and the price of peace, - said Speaker of the Parliament Shalva Papuashvili in a video address to the participants of the third parliamentary summit of the Crimea International Platform.

As Shalva Papuashvili noted, the conflict in Ukraine was a wake-up call for many countries, reminding them that peace is precious and indivisible, and at the same time, very fragile.

"We are in an arc of fire, instability and conflict. Europe, which has been a haven of peace and stability for decades, is now a hotbed of large-scale armed conflict.

We warned our partners that the international system, which failed to prevent war in Georgia and now in Ukraine, failed to ensure a just and sustainable peace.

The awakening that followed the war prompted many of our partners to look at ways to prevent such great tragedies in the future.

We were the first to know what the frozen conflicts that are the result of a temporary truce mean. A truce does not ensure lasting peace. Therefore, freezing the conflict cannot provide reliable guarantees of peace.

It is good that we are now looking for future solutions to problems that must be based on a just and lasting peace. These solutions must also be supported by an appropriate international system that will make peace possible and lasting.

We must, to the best of our ability, take our share of responsibility and work for a better peace, in support of Ukraine's sovereignty and independence, to ensure a just solution to this brutal war.

I wished our Ukrainian brothers and sisters a just peace and a thorough and quick recovery of everything that was destroyed by it," said the Speaker of the Parliament, Shalvapapuashvili.

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