“On Friday, the Chargé d’Affaires of Georgia was summoned to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” announced Swedish Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard.

“On Friday, July 11, the Chargé d’Affaires of Georgia was summoned to the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where a senior official expressed serious concern regarding the human rights situation in Georgia,” the Swedish Foreign Minister wrote on X.

Maria Malmer Stenergard also commented on the statement issued by the EU foreign ministers and the EU High Representative regarding the situation in Georgia.

“Yesterday, together with several European foreign ministers and Kaja Kallas, I have issued a statement regarding the deteriorating situation in Georgia. The recent imprisonment and detention of the leaders of Georgian opposition – as well as arbitrary arrests and increasing repression of representatives of civil society, peaceful protesters and independent journalists – contribute to the dismantling of democracy in Georgia, in contradiction to European norms and values,” Stenergard noted.

As a reminder, yesterday, the foreign ministers of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, along with the EU High Representative Kaja Kallas, issued a joint statement regarding recent developments in Georgia.

“We, the foreign ministers of European democratic countries, are concerned and deeply troubled by the deteriorating situation in Georgia. We strongly condemn the politically motivated arrests and imprisonments of opposition party leaders, which are clearly aimed at suppressing political opposition in Georgia just a few months before local elections,” the statement reads.