According to Tornike Parulava, Director of the Euro-Atlantic Integration Department, he has been dismissed from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. His wife, Media Chelidze, who is an employee of the Parliament's apparatus, also received a dismissal order.
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In a statement published on Facebook, Tornike Parulava writes about the reorganization that has begun in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to him, after 24 years in diplomatic service, he was dismissed on July 1st without any explanation from anyone:
"No one has initiated a process of handing over duties; the entire department was let go without anyone asking if anything was left to be done."
According to the diplomat, the main targets for abolition and reduction in the ministry were units working on inter-agency coordination of the European and Euro-Atlantic integration process.
"The units that coordinated the inter-agency and sectoral reform processes and presented these processes to Brussels were abolished, which directly indicates that no one intends to continue these processes even in the long term. Consequently, when the mystical year 2028 arrives, we will be further behind than we were yesterday.
[...] Even the most negative process can be managed less painfully for people. Everything in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs went exactly the opposite way. Another side effect of the 'reorganization' was the maximum humiliation of employees. For many, this was expressed in demotion, and for even more, it was expressed in a completely unworthy attitude. Throughout the entire month, since the beginning of the 'reorganization', there has been no communication with employees. Nobody has explained what process is underway or what fate awaits whom. The culmination was at the end of the week, on Saturday night and Sunday, when they mechanically issued dismissal orders. Inhuman – is probably one word that best characterizes all of this," writes Tornike Parulava.
According to the diplomat's assessment, the goal of this process was to disrupt the "principle of continuity of institutional memory" established over the years.
"The vast majority of diplomats remaining to work in the ministry have been reassigned to positions where we can say with certainty that institutional memory has been erased at all levels; we are starting from a clean slate from July 1st," Parulava notes.
For several months now, employees who disassociated themselves from the Georgian Dream’s decision on November 28, 2024, to suspend Euro-integration have been dismissed from various public agencies.
On November 29, Tornike Parulava and dozens of other employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a joint statement. They stated that removing Georgia's EU accession negotiations from the agenda until 2028 does not align with the country's strategic interests and contradicts the constitution.
