The deliberate injustice shown toward Georgia clearly indicates that the existing system of international cooperation and security needs fundamental reform, — this is how the Speaker of Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, responded to the “Hague Declaration” adopted by the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, which also includes a critical resolution on Georgia.

As he writes on social media, “the network of organizations created after the Second World War, which were supposed to promote peace, harmony, and cooperation, today, in the hands of certain political groups, have turned into an arena for inciting conflicts and political revenge.”

“That the rules-based international order has ended is evident not so much from the cascade of new hot wars, but from how international organizations have been turned into arenas for waging political wars.

It is a fact that the network of organizations created after the Second World War, which were supposed to promote peace, harmony, and cooperation, today, in the hands of certain political groups, have turned into an arena for inciting conflicts and political revenge.

The deliberate injustice shown toward Georgia clearly indicates that the existing system of international cooperation and security needs fundamental reform,” Papuashvili writes on social media.

For information, the Georgian delegation, as a sign of protest, refused to participate in the vote on the “Hague Declaration” at the plenary session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. The relevant statement was made by the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, Nikoloz Samkharadze, before the vote. The President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, Pere Joan Pons, responded to Nikoloz Samkharadze’s remark and stated that leaving empty seats in parliament is always the worst option, because democracy is, first of all, a joint effort to resolve conflict.

It is noteworthy that a few minutes after the Georgian delegation left the session, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly adopted the “Hague Declaration,” which includes a resolution on Georgia. The main sponsor of the resolution “Protecting the Integrity of Elections and Fundamental Freedoms in Georgia” is American Congressman Joe Wilson.