The ruling Georgian Dream deputy Irakli Kadagishvili responded to a statement by the German Ambassador to Georgia, Peter Fischer, which claimed that the policies of the Georgian government had led to the cancellation of several large military projects.
News
Trending stories
- 1 Georgian Dream to Hold Demonstration in Tbilisi on October 23
- 2 Georgian Dream Denies Voter ID Card Confiscation Claims
- 3 Search for Missing Czech Tourist on Egrisi Range in Vain
- 4 Appeal Filed to Strasbourg Court Against Russian Law
- 5 Georgian Dream Accuses President of Misusing Administrative Resources for Election
- 6 Tea Tsulukiani Replaced by Tinatin Rukhadze as Minister of Culture and Sports
"They should remember well the role Georgia played during the war in Afghanistan. Did Georgia play a lesser role than the Germans in Afghanistan? Have you forgotten this history?" Kadagishvili said and continued:
"The projects being carried out were done to serve their interests in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Africa, where they were too lazy to send their own troops. Let’s call things by their real name. It costs ten times more to send one’s own soldier, and that’s why it was worth sending a Georgian soldier."
In addition, Irakli Kadagishvili stated that the adoption of the "Transparency" law (the Russian law) by the ruling party "has nothing to do with this" and that "everything is due to the fact that the Georgian government had the courage and patriotism to stand firm at a critical moment, when Georgia was on the brink of existence or non-existence, and did not open a second front."
"This is the only reason they were eager to change the government, which did not succeed, and now they are angry. The reasons for this anger cannot be stated directly. That’s why sometimes they claim elections were rigged, and sometimes they come up with other ideas, without any arguments or specifics," Kadagishvili said.
German Ambassador Peter Fischer published a photo on Platform X with Brigadier General Irakli Chichinadze, Deputy Commander of the Defense Forces of Georgia, on the day of the founding of the German Armed Forces in the Bundeswehr. According to the Ambassador, he is proud of the German-Georgian military cooperation and Germany’s support for the capabilities of the Georgian Defense Forces. However, he added that "Sadly, Georgia’s current policy is a concern for Germany and has led to cancellation of some big military projects in Georgia.”
In 2021, when NATO troops began withdrawing from Afghanistan, Brigadier General Irakli Chichinadze said that the peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan provided Georgian units "quite a lot of experience" and brought them closer to NATO forces, which in turn helps achieve integration into NATO.
