The meeting between the EU Ambassador to Georgia, Pawel Herczynski, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, has ended. According to available information, Pawel Herczynski has already left the Avlabari residence.

Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili will make a statement to the media.

Maka Botchorishvili met with the EU Ambassador to Georgia, Pawel Herczynski, at the Palace of Ceremonies, where the administrative part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been moved for several weeks.

The summoning of Pawel Herczynski to the meeting is related to a statement he made at the documentary photo exhibition “Georgia in Focus” in Brussels at the European External Action Service, where he 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.