Irakli Kobakhidze on the BBC report: It was a very simple, clumsily stitched-together special operation that burst like a soap bubble - it will have no value whatsoever
“It was a very simple, white-thread-stitched special operation, and the attempt - which aimed to damage our state interests - burst like a soap bubble,” Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said during a briefing at the Government Administration in response to a journalist’s question about criticism from Western partners following the BBC report.
Kobakhidze stated that such a journalistic investigation “cannot have any value.”
According to the Prime Minister, in reality, the special operation failed.
“In reality, this was a coordinated special operation. Therefore, no one is surprised by these reactions. Naturally, these reactions are part of that coordinated special operation, but within five days everything already burst like a soap bubble. Therefore, this cannot have any effect - everything is as clear as day: there are investigative materials, documentation, materials about the substances, statistics about medical visits.
After April 9, when prohibited substances were used, hospitals and clinics were full of poisoned people who needed treatment, often for more than a month. That was the real situation. Here, we do not even have a spike in medical visits. Under such circumstances, how can this so-called journalistic investigation have any value? It cannot have any value whatsoever. It was a very simple, white-thread-stitched special operation, and the attempt to damage our state interests burst like a soap bubble. Ultimately, the operation did not succeed.
It collapsed exactly the same way as Saakashvili’s so-called poisoning special operation collapsed back then. You remember the huge commotion they created out of nothing at all - even the demarche of 27 ambassadors to the Minister of Justice, you remember that. The special operation we saw from the BBC and then from certain local and some international actors was even cheaper than that. Where the most basic facts don’t have your back, you cannot artificially create any commotion. This is exactly what has been reflected in the processes of the past few days,” the Prime Minister said.
