We raised the issue of the lack of dialogue with the Prime Minister, the President, the Parliament Speaker, as well as with the opposition. I must say there is a lack of dialogue, — this was stated by the President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Pere Joan Pons Sampietro, in a conversation with journalists.

Specifically, after the meeting at the Government Administration, Sampietro responded to a journalist’s question about how he assesses the recent actions of “Georgian Dream,” “to what extent their steps are anti-democratic and whether citizens’ rights are being violated in Georgia.”

“This is one of the main things of the visit — to be able to talk about everything with all actors, and I will try to explain.

The [OSCE] Parliamentary Assembly has been working closely with all actors in Georgia over the past 6–7 months. These are confidential, very frank conversations. What you have seen over the past two days is the result of these months of work. We managed to work with almost all opposition parties, but also with the Prime Minister, the President, the Foreign Minister, and the [Parliament] Speaker. We managed to raise all the issues.

Allow me to tell you that we raised the issues of the lack of dialogue, boycott, and violence. This organization [OSCE] condemns all forms of violence, but democratic systems must also protect citizens’ rights.

And we raised the issue of this lack of dialogue with the Prime Minister, the President, the Parliament Speaker, as well as with the opposition. And I must say that there is a lack of dialogue,” — stated Sampietro.