without even informing the family. Politicians always tend to forget about victims and their families. Such negligence & injustice is what feeds extremism
https://t.co/w9tThgXzsF
Prisoner swap is always a tough decision, but it is a shame that the US (&Germany) didn’t consult victims’ families in making the decision. Georgian Zelimkhan Khangoshvili fought terrorism for decades, helping US & Western intel agencies, yet his killer was released..
We are taking steps to impose visa restrictions on the Georgian Dream Party and others who are undermining democracy in Georgia. Georgia's leaders should reconsider their actions and work to move forward with their nation's long-stated democratic and Euro-Atlantic aspirations.
US @StateDeptSpox announced first tranche of visa restrictions for few dozen individuals including members of Georgian Dream party, members of Parliament, law enforcement, and private citizens. “We are prepared to impose additional sanctions, and we will take all other steps…”
We are at a turning point: whether to advance towards🇪🇺 or revert to the🇷🇺 orbit. Georgian citizens are staunchly defending the 🇪🇺 course; however, we require assistance from our partners and allied countries in this battle against a government that has forsaken its own people
Georgia’s ruling party and its leaders are no longer secretly undermining the country’s European course; they are now openly doing so by declaring civil society, critical media, Western donors, and partners as foreign agents and enemies of the state.
🇬🇪 #Georgia [report] - Disappointed by #InternationalJustice, Nika Jeiranashvili (@NikaJei) has turned to his roots: wine, which he grows in Georgia.
He talks frankly about his experience at the ICC and draws some very clear conclusions.🧵👇 (1/7)
https://t.co/cDCWjizbHP
The European Council has decided to open accession negotiations with Ukraine & Moldova.
#EUCO granted candidate status to Georgia. And the EU will open negotiations with Bosnia and Herzegovina once the necessary degree of compliance with the membership criteria is reached and has invited the commission to report by March with a view to taking such a decision.
A clear signal of hope for their people and for our continent.
Our special reserve Rkatsiteli 2021 named as the author’s top pick wine.
We’ve been told that when asked which wines did the guests enjoy the most, a lot of them responded: “Rkatsiteli from the moustache guy standing at the end.” Referring to @NikaJei 🍷
- https://t.co/aT4EkTch3G
‘Saving the face’ - indeed is what this tweet serves, although it will take much more than a thread to change mind of Georgians and Ukrainians about Navalny
1/14 I want to say a few words about Mikheil Saakashvili.
I do not know him personally and have never met him.
I don't know anyone from his team, nor did anyone ask me to write this post.
President Biden seems no longer to be physically and mentally fit for the @POTUS role. Year and a half left before the next elections, but a lot of damage can be done by the US adversaries before the new leadership enters the scene.
This just in - #ICC judges issue arrest warrants against Vladimir Vladimirovich #Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova: https://t.co/r74JNXv115 #Ukraine
@Justice_Intl@IntlCrimCourt I hope this time there will be no Georgia scenario, when only “separatists” are targeted by the Prosecutor, so that the (non executed) arrest warrants can at least be symbolic. As for the US cooperation, they can provide intel to the OTP unofficially as well, to avoid ‘precedent’