Maka Botchorishvili on visa-free travel: This issue does not have many supporters in Brussels, however, work is still ongoing to use this topic against the interests of the Georgian people

The issue [of suspending visa-free travel for Georgia] does not have many supporters in Brussels, but work is still ongoing to use this issue against the interests of the Georgian people, Georgian Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili said in a conversation with journalists, responding to the statement of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk regarding the suspension of visa-free travel with Georgia.

According to her, the assessments we heard from Poland are very sad and somewhat insulting to the Georgian people.

As Botchorishvili noted, Georgia has done everything to ensure that Georgian citizens have the opportunity to travel to the European Union without a visa.

"It is incorrect and unfair to make such an assessment and to link such issues with visa-free travel. Georgia has done everything to ensure that our society, Georgian citizens, have the opportunity to travel visa-free to the European Union. We also know very well that the opposition often speculates on this topic and fights to use it in Brussels to stop visa-free travel for Georgian citizens. This is more like coordinated actions on the part of Poland. The opposition's visit to Brussels and attempts to use visa-free travel as a tool against Georgian citizens. The opposition has been working on this for a long time and they did not succeed in doing so. We know that this issue does not have many supporters in Brussels, but we also see that work is still ongoing to use this issue against the interests of the Georgian people, especially when the opposition no longer has any resources inside the country. These are the issues that are being used against Georgia's interests," said Maka Botchorishvili, whose The Ministry of Foreign Affairs also publishes the comment.

For information, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk spoke about illegal migration in the parliament and mentioned Georgia in this context.

In particular, Tusk said that he is ready to use existing methods to change international law in order to minimize the risk of illegal migration.

According to the Polish Prime Minister, he is creating the necessary majority to limit or suspend visa-free travel, including with Georgia.

However, Tusk emphasized that the issue does not concern only Georgia, but also those countries from which migration poses a direct threat to the legal or public order in Poland or Europe.