The EU Ambassador will have to explain what he means when he practically threatens our country and people with returning to the past - Mr. Herczyński should go and explain to both the head of the Foreign Ministry and the entire Georgian society what he meant by the text that we all heard, - the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Procedural Issues and Rules, Davit Matikashvili, said when speaking about the summoning of the EU Ambassador, Pawel Herczyński, to the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

According to him, Herczyński’s statement once again encrypts that "the choice of the Georgian people to have a national government is not acceptable to specific forces, including those represented by Herczyński."

“The EU ambassador will have to explain what he means when he practically threatens our country and people with a return to the past. He himself ordered civil war, poverty, destitution, etc. if specific instructions from Brussels were not followed.

This was a statement that went beyond all bounds, having absolutely no connection with diplomacy, which in its literal text implies a threat to the Georgian people. Here it is once again seen and encrypted that the choice of the Georgian people to have a national government is not acceptable to specific forces, including those represented by Herczyński. That is why there is constant pressure, threats, and trampling of the Vienna Convention, specifically by this diplomat, when this threat was so emphatically voiced towards our society.

Accordingly, Mr. Herczyński should be ordered to go and explain to the Foreign Ministry and the entire Georgian society, which is quite rightly outraged by this statement, what was meant by the text that we all heard," Matikashvili said.

The EU Ambassador to Georgia, who opened a documentary photo exhibition “Georgia in Focus” in Brussels at the European External Action Service, noted that Georgia is no longer on the right trajectory.

According to the ambassador, the government has chosen an alternative, authoritarian model and is distancing Georgia from the European Union.

“Georgia is at a crossroads. Georgia’s future has not yet been written, but what will be decided in the coming weeks and months will determine whether Georgia belongs to the family of European countries, based on democracy, the rule of law and human rights, or, unfortunately, returns to its dark past. My main message to the Georgian people is “do not lose hope”. We must not allow Georgia and the wonderful, warm, hospitable Georgian people to return to the dark times of violence, civil war, poverty, hardship, corruption. This is not the future they deserve.

As soon as the government expresses a desire to cooperate with us, we will do everything to help Georgia become a member of the European Union,” Herczyński was quoted as saying by Negtazeti.

Following this statement, the EU Ambassador has been summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.