“As for the entry on the liberalization of the visa regime, which was included in the European Parliament resolution, it has exactly the same price as the entry on LGBT propaganda and the demand for the release of Saakashvili. All this has no price,” he said Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze, commenting on the latest resolution of the European Parliament regarding Georgia.
According to the head of government, visa liberalization is an achievement of the government and the Georgian people.
“Visa liberalization is an achievement of the government and the Georgian people, and no one should talk to the government and the Georgian people in the language of blackmail. It would be better if these people, for example, took care of introducing a visa-free regime between Georgia and the United States. Then, that the language of blackmail does not work against the Georgian people, this was very clearly visible in 2022 and is very clearly visible now.
A friend's request that talks about opacity, i.e. failure to provide a core European value in our country; a request related to the permission of LGBT propaganda and the release of Saakashvili; the request related to the punishment of Bidzina Ivanishvili, of course, has no significance.
These are not requests from friends, these are demands from odious members of the European Parliament and their supporters, which we cannot take into account, since they are based on completely non-European values. Therefore, so-called requests, but in fact attempts at blackmail, have no value either for us or for Georgian society,” said the Prime Minister of Georgia.
