Georgian PM: we have not halted EU integration - EU officially confirmed it suspended dialogue with Georgia on June 27, 2024

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Wednesday said that his government had not halted any process of European integration and added that the European Union itself had already confirmed this officially, noting that it was the EU that suspended dialogue with Georgia on June 27, 2024.

In his remarks, Kobakhidze noted that what had been publicly stated multiple times, and mainly discussed by the EU Ambassador, was later confirmed officially in documents.

“On June 27, 2024, the European bureaucracy itself made the decision to suspend dialogue with Georgia, which was an extremely unfair decision toward the Georgian people. Later, they absurdly claimed that we had halted something that they themselves had already suspended in June. Such a level of demagoguery, of course, is not befitting of the European bureaucracy in general, yet we see that even moral principles within the European bureaucracy have been violated, which is very regrettable. We have great hope that these approaches will change in the future and that the European bureaucracy’s attitude toward the Georgian people will also change”, the PM said.

Kobakhidze also said that Georgia’s foreign policy orientation was reflected in the country’s Constitution, and the relevant provision was added to the Constitution thanks to the efforts of the current Government.