"I think the initiative taken by President Zelensky to meet with the Georgian Prime Minister shows that any policy that is inherently unjust is doomed to failure," said Shalva Papuashvili, the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament.­

According to him, the Ukrainian President has put Georgian Prime Minister Kobakhidze on the sanctions list and now he had to go and meet with him.

“I think this itself speaks to how wrong the policy of the Ukrainian government was towards the Georgian people and gives me hope that this is a sign of rethinking, that acting against the Georgian people does not yield results and betting on the forces that are fed by the betrayal of the Georgian people will not bring good results. Once again, we have always said, and not only in relation to Ukraine, but also in relation to all those countries and governments that are engaged in various unfair policies towards the population of Georgia, that we remain in the format of unilateral friendship, which means that we are right in these relations. Whoever took the wrong step towards Georgia will ultimately, hopefully, realize the error of their step. We are always ready to reconsider all these relations.

For more than 4 years, unfortunately, we have seen a policy from the Ukrainian government that is not only directed against the Georgian people, but does not serve the interests of the Ukrainian people either. We have always emphasized that Georgia and the Georgian government have always supported the Ukrainian people and Ukraine, there is no resolution that we have not supported. If anyone has a step to take and to correct, it is the Ukrainian government.

When you impose sanctions on government representatives who stand by your country and people, this is anything but an expression of gratitude. As for other behaviors, all of us were witnesses to all this, we saw it with our own eyes and heard it with our own ears when President Zelensky directly demanded that the Georgian government organize fighters and send them to fight in Ukraine, thus openly engaging, as a party, in the Russian-Ukrainian war. This is called “drag into war” in Georgian, I don’t know what they call it in Ukrainian,” Papuashvili said.