“It is important that Georgia and Georgia’s crisis remain in the focus of the world’s attention,” Georgia’s fifth president, Salome Zurabishvili, said in an interview with The Brussels Times.

According to Zurabishvili, “the sense that Georgia must be independent and have its own natural European future is deeply rooted among the people.”

“They [the ruling party] are clearly following Russia’s instructions to sever ties with Europe, which is why they have launched this harsh anti-European and anti-Western rhetoric that is not natural for Georgians,” Zurabishvili stated.

She noted that amid the many geopolitical crises currently unfolding around the world, it is difficult to ensure that Georgia remains in the spotlight.

At the same time, Georgia’s fifth president emphasized that the European Union’s inaction “has a negative impact on people’s attitude toward Europe in Georgia, because they hear calls for sanctions and then discover that, in reality, nothing has been done.”

“The realization that they can do nothing to prevent a country that was almost at the EU’s doorstep from being absorbed by Russia is alarming for us, but it should also be alarming for Europe,” Salome Zurabishvili noted.