Shalva Papuashvili - We will do everything for EU membership, but we will not beg the Brussels bureaucracy, this is what the Brussels bureaucracy wanted - we once again endorse every word of Irakli Kobakhidze's November 28 statement

Papuashvili also stated that "Brussels and European politicians wanted a Maidan here - bloodshed, chaos and bringing their own puppets to power".

According to Papuashvili, "for more than a year, terror directed from outside has been going on in Georgia".

“In general, the protest began on October 26, 2024, at 8:00 PM, when the radical opposition and several ambassadors here learned that they had been defeated by the Georgian people. Salome Zurabishvili came out and called all this a Russian special operation, a fraud, 300,000 heavenly Georgians, and so on. The protest has been going on since October 26, which comes from a simple whim, that the minority should rule the majority, that Georgia should be ruled from the outside, and that those who stand on one leg, and not those who represent Georgia’s interests, should be in power. It seems that they are wrong about the date.

For more than a year, externally directed terror has been going on in order to replace the government through anti-democratic means. As for Irakli Kobakhidze’s statement of November 28, read it - we sign all of his words once again. After that, it has even become clearer how correct this statement was. On June 27, 2024, Brussels, in order to influence the elections, unilaterally stopped the dialogue with the Georgian government on accession issues, including the embassy recently admitted this. So, what was stopped in June 2024, could not be stopped in November 2024.

From October 26 to November 28, 2024, some bureaucrats and politicians who were defeated by the Georgian people were trying to use the EU issue as a weapon of blackmail against the Georgian people and keep Georgia and the Georgian people under constant blackmail: - If you stand on your left foot, I will open negotiations on this issue, if you stand on your right foot, I will open negotiations on another issue. They wanted to put Georgian people in such a humiliating position.

That is why it was said that the Georgian government was fully prepared to continue preparing the country for EU membership. In 2030, Georgia will be the most prepared for EU membership and this will remain so. We will do everything, but we will not beg the Brussels bureaucracy. This is what the Brussels bureaucracy wanted, which directly interfered in the Georgian elections through its ambassador, their politicians came and organized rallies here.

Today I saw a statement by the Swedish Foreign Minister, who did not distance himself in a single word from the representative of the Swedish government, who called on the people here to go to the Maidan. Last year, Brussels and European politicians did this to us! They wanted the Maidan here - they wanted bloodshed, chaos here, and they wanted to bring their puppets to power,” Shalva Papuashvili said.

He also said, “Georgia was ready to start accession negotiations if Brussels had decided to change its unjust decision.”

“We would be exemplary in this negotiation process. Negotiations were opened with Moldova, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Ukraine, whereas Georgia is better off than these coutnries. It was an unjust decision for Georgia.

Georgia will not start begging in front of some European bureaucrats who want to make the Georgian people a beggar.

Brussels bureaucrats have seized the instruments of the European Union and are trying to turn it into an instrument of blackmail, a weapon against independent peoples, which is a shame for today’s Europe!”, - said Shalva Papuashvili.