Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will deliver a speech at the plenary session of the European Parliament tomorrow, December 18. She has been invited to Strasbourg by the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola.
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Metsola expressed the European Parliament’s solidarity with the Georgian citizens who have taken to the streets of Tbilisi in recent weeks to protest following the parliamentary elections.
“We see you, we hear you, and we stand with you,” said Roberta Metsola, calling on the EU to take decisive action, including sanctioning those responsible for the violence against peaceful protesters.
Salome Zourabichvili’s speech to the European Parliament will begin at 11:30 Tbilisi time.
Georgia’s illegitimate Prime Minister, Irakli Kobakhidze, called President Zourabichvili’s invitation to the European Parliament a “performance” and compared it to the speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“What information we have is that they are going to invite Salome Zourabichvili to the European Parliament session, where a small performance should take place.
They should stand up while she ends speaking, like they did to Zelensky, and accompany her speech with a standing ovation.
Specific officials and politicians cannot influence the development of events in our country with simple performances, and such simple performances will have no effect,” Kobakhidze said.
The background to Salome Zourabichvili’s invitation to the European Parliament is the protest rallies that have been ongoing in Georgia since November 28, following the Georgian Dream's decision to suspend the process of joining the European Union. The participants of the rallies, who were repeatedly dispersed, are demanding new parliamentary elections and the release of those detained during the protests.
It is noteworthy that, with the resolution adopted on November 28, the results of the parliamentary elections held in Georgia were not recognized by the European Parliament either.
