According to Salome Zurabishvili, everyone should stop speculating and playing with the future of the country, take responsibility and stop damaging its image.
The Tbilisi City Court, refusing to release Mikheil Saakashvili, sentenced the Georgian people to “walk in a vicious circle.” This was announced on Tuesday, February 7, by Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, Rustavi 2 TV channel reports.
“The President does not and cannot discuss the fairness/unfairness of this decision, the assessment rests with all of us – one thing is clear that through this decision Georgians are sentenced to walk in a vicious circle and remain hostages of the current situation. ,” he said.
According to him, this vandalism is the result of the joint efforts of the ruling party and the opposition.
“It prevents us from properly building relations with our partners, expressing solidarity with the Ukrainian people and nation during this difficult test, harming Georgian tradition, hindering our recognized European vision . The country is a hostage to this single issue,” Zurabishvili stressed. .
At the same time, the President of Georgia believes that pardoning Saakashvili will not help in this situation, because, “taking into account his past statements and as a result of his crimes, which have not yet been recognized and for which he has not distinguished. He was punished, he was expected, if released, to become an active opponent not only of the government, but indeed of the country’s reputation and therefore of its European aspirations.”
“Returning our face and restoring trust requires another effort, another realization: on the part of the government – that this issue harms the country, and a legal and humanitarian solution must be found; on the part of the opposition – that Saakashvili must once and for all admit his crime and free the country and opposition from the hostage conditions of leaving politics,” Zurabishvili stressed.
The previous day, the Tbilisi court did not satisfy the petition of Saakashvili’s defense to release the politician or postpone his punishment for health reasons. On January 31, Giorgi Chaladze, a member of the party of the former president’s colleagues, the United National Movement, announced that Saakashvili had been transferred to intensive care. After that, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry called on the Georgian authorities to stop using physical and psychological violence against him and transfer him to Kyiv.
We previously reported that the Rada will ask Georgia to send Saakashvili abroad for treatment.
In addition, later it became known that Poland is ready to accept the former president of Georgia for treatment.
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Source: korrespondent
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