„This is an attempt to push Georgia to enter into a political and economic escalation with Russia“- Shalva Papuashvili about the European Council Presidency conclusions on enlargement

The statement on Georgia at the European Council failed, and Denmark unilaterally published this text, in which we saw a documented demand to impose sanctions on Russia, - the Speaker of the Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, said while speaking to journalists about the European Council Presidency conclusions on enlargement.

According to him, "This is an attempt to push Georgia to enter into a political and economic escalation with Russia, and the authors of this statement are either naive and do not understand that at the end of this escalation there is a military confrontation, or they are pests and are pushing us towards an escalation that will end in war."

"Yesterday, the statement on Georgia failed at the European Council, and Denmark unanimously published this text, in which we saw a documented demand to impose sanctions on Russia. See, with this failed project, they demanded full agreement on the restrictions imposed on Russia and Belarus. Full agreement means imposing sanctions on Russia and Belarus - this is what Brussels is demanding today. We have been talking about this for three years. This was exactly what they demanded, along with everything else, behind closed doors and did not talk about outside. Last year, the European Parliament wrote it in a resolution for the first time, and now we have seen this note in the Danish statement. This is giving Georgia a push to enter into a political and economic escalation with Russia, and since the end of this escalation is a military confrontation, the authors of this statement are either naive and do not understand this, or they are pests and are pushing us towards an escalation that will end in a war," said Shalva Papuashvili.

He also spoke about the part of the document that says the Georgian government must "release all unjustly detained politicians, journalists and activists."

According to the Speaker of Parliament, when "they talk about the release of the so-called unjustly detained, they never say who they mean."

"When it comes to the release of the so-called unjustly detained, notice that none of the statements say who they mean. Who are the unjustly detained, why don't they say? Ucha Abashidze? This is their morality. Their morality is that a person sold his own wife and sexually exploited to blackmail others - Brussels is demanding the release of this person today. This is the level of their moral degradation when they demand the release of Ucha Abashidze..." - Papuashvili said.