A meeting between former Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili with representatives from the opposition and the diplomatic corps, including the ambassadors of Germany, France, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, and Romania, is currently underway at Salome Zourabichvili’s office behind closed doors.

Present are representatives from four opposition political unions that have successfully topped the electoral threshold.

“We see Ivanishvili’s regime is increasingly consolidating autocratic rule daily, and we can already assert that it is attempting to establish a dictatorship. Therefore, political forces must unite and collaborate with Georgia’s international partners to safeguard the country and its European future,” stated Tina Bokuchava, the United National Movement chair.

Bokuchava further remarked that while the sanctions mechanism initiated by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is a positive step, it is not enough.

“It is commendable that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has launched a sanctions mechanism, but it is insufficient. At the national level, all countries must impose sanctions on members of Ivanishvili’s Russian regime. No Western nation should permit those affiliated with his regime to enter, all their accounts should be frozen—including those of family members—and any businesses connected to them must be shut down. This will isolate their system completely, leading to its collapse and allowing the people to engage in a peace process,” Bokuchava emphasized.

Representatives of the diplomatic corps declined to comment to the media before the meeting.