Practice tells us that wherever any foreign state or organization has fought Georgia, everyone has been defeated, so here too you will see a bitter defeat! - There are other procedures ahead, where they will have to bear more responsibility than before, including the Strasbourg Court, where the British state will already be the defendant and the state will lose to the Georgian Dream. So it is up to them to decide, it is better to admit what they did wrong, than to end up receiving greater damage, - said the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili, confirming to the media that they received a response from the BBC to their complaint.

As Shalva Papuashvili explained, the Georgian Dream received the BBC response a few days ago. According to him, lawyers are already working on a response.

“A few days ago, we received their response. Of course, they had already made their position known in advance that they were not going to review the activities of their journalists, and this response also reflects the same position. We said from the very beginning that we would follow these procedures. Lawyers are already working on a counter-appeal. Based on British law, we must again appeal this issue to the BBC, at the second level of internal regulation. Of course, we did not have much hope from the BBC that when they support and publish such falsification, they would then blame themselves for it, but that is why we are following all the procedures. Ultimately, practice tells us that wherever any foreign state or organization has fought Georgia, everyone has been defeated, so here too you will see a bitter defeat! They do not want to deviate from the goal that they had, which was to harm the country," Papuashvili said.

He answered the media's question about why the Georgian Dream party did not publish the answers it received from the BBC.

"We are involved in a legal dispute that has its own procedures. Lawyers are involved in this. Of course, there is an answer. In general, there is nothing new. I will not go into details. The main thing is that they are liars, we are right. This will be proven," Papuashvili said.

According to him, “the more they resist, the more they will harm themselves.”

“The more they resist, the more they will harm themselves, and because there are other procedures ahead, where they will have to bear more responsibility than before, including the Strasbourg Court, where the British state will already be the defendant and the state will lose to the Georgian Dream. So I don't know, it's up to them to decide, it's better to admit what they did wrong than to end up receiving greater damage," Papuashvili said.

The BBC published an investigative report, according to which the evidence they collected indicates that chemical weapons from the First World War were allegedly used against protesters in Georgia during the November-December 2024 rally. The Georgian Dream denied the information and filed an official complaint with the BBC. With the complaint, the ruling party of Georgia demanded an apology from the BBC and the removal of the materials.