“Silence is a loud message”: Georgia’s ruling party official slams Council of Europe members over failure to condemn Presidential Palace attack

Irakli Kirtskhalia, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party faction in the legislative body, on Monday said that the failure of the Council of Europe members to condemn the storming of the Presidential Palace on October 4 meant another silence, describing it as a loud statement that they were standing behind all of it.

“Not only that, any shameful resolution that they themselves have rendered worthless, any political statement or action that is conceived in the minds of the collective United National Movement lobbyists in various Brussels offices and then transferred into scenarios behind closed doors in offices, or even directly written in the homes or offices of specific diplomats, is a clear example of how unstandardized and unfair these specific groups are toward our country - groups that our society knows well regarding the opposition, by names, surnames, and positions, whether currently active or former”, he noted.

“Another step, another silence, and another silence means a loud statement that ‘yes, we stand behind all of this’. This is regrettable and also our declared position: society will respond to all of this, and the majority of our country, through us, in the form of the political team they supported and entrusted with the country’s reins, we will respond very clearly and firmly. Institutionally, our country continues to uphold values and principles, strictly follows agreements, but as for the unjust policy coming from Brussels, we will always give a fair response. We always expose their injustice, unstandardness, and we tell them boldly that we support the Europe that exists in us historically; these are the values that have historically been part of our country and culture, which today’s European bureaucracy is devoid of”, he continued.

Kirtskhalia also stated that common sense was gradually awakening in Europe and the US, and the Georgian Government supported and advocated for this common sense.

“When we speak about Europe returning to Europe and European values, despite the mainstream media, which is very well illustrated from both the US and Brussels, our society also closely follows it. No matter how they try to cover up their unstandardness in their countries, we see that drop by drop, from election to election, both in Europe and the US, common sense awakens, and we are supporters and advocates of that common sense, which considers parity, dignified partnership, and upholds the values and principles on which Europe, at least historically, stood”, Kirtskhalia concluded.