Shalva Papuashvili: May God grant the EU Ambassador dancing and enjoyment, but if we had believed him, he would have been evacuated from Georgia today - As for “Europe Days,” I “congratulate” the Ambassador on turning Europe Days into days of hatred toward Europe
We saw a dancing EU Ambassador, and it is very good that the EU Ambassador has the opportunity to dance in Georgia. I hope the Ambassador will realize at least the next day that if we had believed his leadership, no one would have any business dancing in Georgia today. May God grant him dancing and enjoyment; we are not asking for gratitude, we simply hope he understands that if we had believed him, the EU Ambassador probably would not even be in Georgia – he would have been evacuated, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili stated.
According to the Speaker of Parliament, if the Georgian authorities had acted not in the interests of the people, but according to the instructions of EU leaders and the Ambassador, Georgia would today be a country destroyed by war.
“It is good that our society has both the mood and the opportunity to enjoy itself. I hope the EU Ambassador will realize at least the next day that if we had believed his leadership, no one would have any business dancing in Georgia today. Georgia would today be an economically destroyed country, a country destroyed by war. We do not want gratitude from him, we do not expect gratitude from him, but I hope he understands that the fact that he had the opportunity to dance and enjoy himself is thanks to the fact that the Georgian government did not believe him and his superiors and acted based on the interests of the country and the people. May God grant him dancing and enjoyment; we are not asking for gratitude, we simply hope he understands that if we had believed him, no one would have any business dancing and the EU Ambassador would probably not even be in Georgia – he would have been evacuated, just as all embassies were withdrawn from Kyiv, the ambassadors abandoned Kyiv, and the only one who remained until the end was the Georgian ambassador, whom Zelensky later expelled from his country,” Papuashvili stated.
He also said that the EU Embassy turned European Days into days of hatred toward Europe and identified itself as a political actor.
“What we see with the so-called Europe Days series is an ordinary political action. We see that the EU Embassy organizes these days without the involvement of the Georgian authorities. It does not even invite the authorities, as if they were here in some vacuum and on a territory without a government. We see that this has actually turned into days of European hatred. In the first case, you remember, there was an attack on journalists when it was held in Tbilisi in May 2024; the next time, on May 9, they held Europe Days in such a way that they did not even mention the contribution of Georgians to the victory over fascism, and the EU Ambassador did not even congratulate the Georgian people on May 9. Then we saw that they invited Kordzaia, who insults the Georgian people, as a speaker, and now we saw that they invited Saakashvili’s parish, who insult the Georgian people, as musical representatives. All of this shows to what point the EU Embassy has brought all of this – that they turned Europe Days into days of hatred toward Europe, which every time is a day of expressing hatred. The speeches of the EU Ambassador, including this latest speech, are an ordinary political action directed against the authorities, whose aim is to turn public opinion against the authorities, and as a bonus, hatred is sown through these events. So I ‘congratulate’ the EU Ambassador on turning Europe Days into days of hatred toward Europe. I do not know whether he intends to continue the days of hatred toward Europe, but he behaves so stubbornly that I am sure he will come up with something similar. He brazenly tries to shove in the face of the Georgian population those people who curse them and sow hatred. This shows the regrettable situation that we are dealing with a political actor and no longer with a diplomatic mission. This is a violation of the Vienna Convention, which Herczyński committed; he was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs several times because of these violations, so he is simply repeating it – it is a recidivism of violating the Vienna Convention, and this latest event was also an example of this, when a political action was held to incite hatred. The EU Representation has already identified itself as a political actor and not as a diplomatic mission,” Papuashvili stated.
