FM Botchorishvili: Claims that Georgia is isolated are baseless and unjustified

“The Paris Peace Forum is one of the important forums in Europe, where discussions are held on various issues, including security and peace. It is very important for us that Georgia is part of these discussions and has the opportunity to speak about the significant security challenges it faces,” Georgia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maka Botchorishvili, said.

She noted that one of the central issues at this year’s forum concerned children’s rights.

“This is also very important for us, particularly from the perspective of security and conflict, given that young people and children in the occupied territories have restricted rights and limited access to education. One of the key issues on our agenda and in our daily work is what is happening in the occupied regions, particularly with regard to young people.

In this regard, it was important that we had the opportunity to discuss these issues at the forum and draw attention to the challenges associated with occupation, the military presence of a foreign country in our regions, the importance of peace and efforts to achieve it, as well as the benefits that peaceful coexistence brings to a country.

We spoke about the progress our country has made under conditions that allow us to protect the opportunity for peaceful development. We also emphasized that, in general, the international community’s efforts should be directed towards seeking peace, and that peace should enable young people and children to develop and have better opportunities in the future,” Botchorishvili noted.

Botchorishvili also spoke about the importance of participating in the forum organized at the initiative of the Macron family.

As the Foreign Minister noted, the opposition and certain actors abroad had an agenda to portray Georgia as isolated, which, she said, was entirely unfounded.

“Generally, our opposition, and not only the opposition but also certain actors internationally, had an agenda to portray Georgia as isolated and to use various instruments and mechanisms to achieve this. They sought to justify this narrative that Georgia was supposedly being isolated, which is completely without foundation.

These efforts continue today, both on the part of certain politicians and the opposition in our country and on the part of certain actors abroad. These efforts are entirely unjustified and futile and have no significance for our country. Our country is engaged in an important struggle to defend its sovereignty and interests, and these efforts coming from the opposition or certain actors will not be able to hinder Georgia in any way,” Botchorishvili said.