საინფორმაციო სააგენტო ინტერპრესნიუსი

The tactic known in football as creating an artificial offside situation sometimes backfires, giving the opposing team an easy opportunity to score, wrote Shalva Papuashvili, Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, on social media.

The Bolnisi mayoral candidate of the Lelo-Strong Georgia party announces that he is withdrawing his candidacy in favor of the Georgian Dream candidate, Zamur Chitanava.

Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna read a joint statement by the European Union and 50 countries, including Georgia, before the start of the UN Security Council meeting, condemning the violation of Estonian airspace by Russian fighter jets.

Russia believes that it can act with impunity - we have seen this playbook before the invasion of Georgia, Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said at the UN Security Council meeting.

We do not discriminate between businessmen on political grounds or any other grounds. As for Noshiko Namoradze, I have a personal relationship with him, including I had communication with him recently - I do not know if he is in the country or not, - Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told journalists, responding to the information that businessman Noshrevan Namoradze has left Georgia, as well as the information that Namoradze's project "will no longer benefit."

October 4, including the elections, the rally and everything else, will pass very peacefully, the main thing is that no one thinks about violating the law - if someone does it, everyone will see the power of the new management of the law enforcement agencies. My modest advice is not to think about violating the law, - the Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Kobakhidze, told journalists about the rally announced by some opposition parties for October 4.

I cannot comment on the gossip. I can tell you directly that Vakhtang Gomelauri does not have any function in the political team today, - Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze regarding the political status of Vakhtang Gomelauri.

We will install video cameras at all polling stations in Tbilisi - if anyone dares to enter different polling stations, or enters a polling station where he is not registered - he will be punished with criminal charges, - said Irakli Kupradze, the candidate for mayor of Tbilisi from the Strong Georgia and Gakharia for Georgia parties.

The leaders of the Georgian Dream know very well that neither the Arab states, nor China, nor others, have the interest in Georgia of the scale and caliber that would make them global players here. The Georgian people cannot be offered a counterweight to the US or the European Union, and therefore NATO, - Grigol Gegelia, Foreign Secretary of Lelo-Strong Georgia, stated during an interview with Palitranews, thus responding to the visit of the President of the United Arab Emirates to Georgia and his meeting with the founder of the Georgian Dream, Bidzina Ivanishvili.

He [Vakhtang Gomelauri] is not engaged in partisan activities - in short, he is not involved in partisan activities. Eka Beselia is lying, - this was stated by the Speaker of the Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, when he answered the journalist’s question - “What is the status of Vakhtang Gomelauri in the Georgian Dream?”

The scheme has already been deciphered, according to which the funds received through the NGO sector were used to organize revolutions, divide society and attempt a coup d'état - now they have started to bring funds through universities, although everything will be solved, - the incumbent mayor of the capital and mayoral candidate Kakha Kaladze stated, responding to the information spread by the Imedi Kviris newspaper that the protest rallies are being financed by the University of Georgia and the former head of the Co-Investment Fund, Giorgi Bachiashvili.

Which one should I name, when even the EU ambassador himself was involved in violating our sovereignty by interfering in the elections? - this is how the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, responded to a journalist's question about who, besides Russia, poses a threat to Georgia's sovereignty.