Honored to meet with the @PACE_President, Petra Bayr. We discussed the political situation in Georgia and severely deteriorating human rights situation. I shared information on our political party @ForGeorgia25’s activities, priorities and our commitment for cooperation with @SOC_PACE.🇬🇪🇪🇺
Berdia Sichinava: "Georgian Dream" should think about withdrawing the Chorchana case if it has even a grain of rationality and patriotism left; I would not wish any government to be buried under the political ruins of this historic case
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The EU just adopted a resolution, citing the politically motivated charges on For Georgia leader and former Prime Minister of Georgia, Giorgi Gakharia.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
Congratulations to #Ukraine 🇺🇦 and #Moldova 🇲🇩 on opening their first EU accession negotiation cluster. #Georgia 🇬🇪 should have been there too. Instead, the Georgian Dream government’s anti-EU rhetoric, attacks on #democracy and the rule of law, and serious human rights violations have detached Georgia from the Associated Trio it once led. Today, Georgia is increasingly discussed alongside authoritarian states rather than democratic partners. We must work closely with international allies to keep Georgia on the agenda and be ready to swiftly return the country to the democratic and #European path when domestic and international conditions allow.
In the occupied Tskhinvali region, the Russian Federation has begun a new phase of annexing Georgian territory. The so-called "Treaty on Deepening Allied Cooperation," signed in May of this year between Moscow and the Tskhinvali regime, has already entered into force, and its practical implementation has begun. Russia's personnel policy in the occupied territory is evidence of this.
Specifically, Russia has sent Russian official Marat Kambolov to occupied Tskhinvali. He was first appointed as an adviser to the de facto president, and now, according to media reports, his appointment as the "Prime Minister" of the Tskhinvali occupation regime is being planned.
As you know, the aforementioned so-called treaty aims at the complete integration of the occupied Tskhinvali region's socio-economic, transportation, energy, and military sectors with the Russian Federation. This clearly constitutes yet another step toward the de facto annexation of Georgian territories and poses a direct threat to the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
We called on the Georgian authorities to take appropriate legislative measures and mobilize international partners against this wave of annexation, but the ruling party did nothing. The ruling party did not even support the anti-annexation resolution that we initiated in Parliament and described our efforts against annexation as "political showmanship."
Against the backdrop of the "Dream" government's complete inaction, Russia is now appointing its own public official to a leading position within the Tskhinvali regime, which amounts to the establishment of direct Moscow rule over Georgia's occupied territory.
The ruling party, which deliberately sabotaged years of cooperation with Georgia's strategic partners and pushed the country into international isolation, is, instead of defending the country's interests, assisting in the annexation of our territories through its criminal silence toward the occupying state.
We call on "Dream" to fulfill its constitutional obligations: provide a clear political and legal assessment of the annexation processes being carried out by Russia in the occupied territories and ensure the mobilization of international partners against annexation.
We demand that the "Dream" government state a clear position regarding the claims raised by the occupation regime concerning the village of Chorchana and explain whether it plans to dismantle the Georgian checkpoint located there.
Once again, we appeal to the Parliament and Government of Georgia: stop remaining silent, return to the constitutional framework, restore active cooperation with international partners, and support the anti-annexation resolution. Silence and inaction during Russia's seizure of Georgian territories amount to assisting the occupying state, and no one will be able to evade responsibility for this.