According to the fifth President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, the goal of the Georgian Dream is to stop visa liberalization for Georgia.

As she noted at today's briefing, this is part of Russian policy, because "Russia's goal is for Georgia to be completely isolated from its European or American partners."

"The issue of visa liberalization is being used by the regime in two ways. One is part of a campaign of intimidation, that you will lose everything, you will have nothing left. This is moral pressure being applied to society. This campaign has been launched precisely for Easter. It is not coming from Brussels or any European capital, it is coming from Tbilisi, from this regime, whose goal is precisely to stop visa liberalization. This is not the decision they are worried about and want to stop, no! This is their goal, which is followed by their actions. Every day they sometimes curse some European capital, they speak directly to the ambassadors here in a threatening tone, this is a continuation of the decision that was made on November 28 to stop the integration process with the European Union. This regime wants to completely isolate Georgia. This is Russian policy. Russia's goal is for Georgia to be completely isolated from its European and American partners, so that it finds itself alone, defenseless, without independence, under various Russian intentions,” Zurabishvili said.

According to her, the government is trying to accustom people to a future that will be in isolation, without visa liberalization.

“There is also an attempt to shift responsibility to Europe, as if they are punishing us. Europe does not punish anyone, except for certain individuals, when individual sanctions are announced,” Zurabishvili said.

As she noted, Europe does not punish Georgian society, which was clearly expressed when it granted Georgia the status of a candidate country.

“If the regime continues like this and tries in every way to separate Georgia from its partners, to bring it into a closed state, into isolation, responsibility for this will fall on Ivanishvili and the clan that is currently governing this country according to Russian rules. Therefore, we should not listen to propaganda on this issue. You should think and see who is separating Georgia from Europe, how much Europe has done to open the way for Georgians to turn a Georgian passport into a European passport. If there is a real way by which we can get back Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region tomorrow, it is precisely joining Europe, and not separating from Europe. This is also the issue that we should think about,” Zurabishvili said.

According to her, the path to unification and independence is in Europe, with partners, and not in Russia.