The Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili has assessed participation of Foreign Ministers of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Island in the protest rally in front Georgian Parliament yesterday as a gross violation of Georgia's sovereignty, APA’s Tbilisi correspondent reports.
The Speaker of Parliament accused the foreign ministers of helping the coup d'état.
“Foreign officials joining these protests by under the pretext of democracy and human rights is a gross disrespect to Georgia's sovereignty and diplomatic experience, it’s hypocricy at best and at worst, it is provocation,” - Papuashvili said.
Parliament’s speaker noted that some government officials of the Baltic countries are going too far with their rhetoric, they see the world in black and white, and consider those who do not think like them to be enemies:
“(According to them all possible means can be used in the fight against the enemy, diplomacy is being replaced by propaganda.”
The Speaker said that the protesters do not represent the people of Georgia, as the foreign ministers claim in their speeches, and that they are controlled by radical opposition leaders.
“You would have heard Soviet or Russian propagandists refer to youth as "the whole people" by the radical anti-government opposition, not from the foreign ministers of the EU member states…Georgia needs friends and support, not hypocrisy and provocation,” Papuashvili noted.
