Lawmakers of the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party will not attend the extraordinary sitting since part of the opposition uses Ukraine issue for domestic political agenda, said Parliament Speaker, Shalva Papuashvili.

According to Shalva Papuashvili, the GD faction explained the reasons in a statement issued yesterday.

“We see in recent days, unfortunately, that part of the opposition is trying to make the Ukrainian issue part of its own domestic political agenda. We hear a whole wave of disinformation against the Georgian government coming from the part of the opposition over Ukraine, and of course, their attitude towards the resolution also confirms that they are trying to use the Ukrainian issue for the domestic political agenda. The main essence of the statement of the Georgian Dream faction is that using Ukraine’s issue for domestic political agenda is the wrong form of solidarity. The issue of Ukraine is also a security issue for Georgia, but it is not a domestic issue in the sense that they are trying to portray it.

We heard yesterday, including from the initiators of the extraordinary sitting as if their desire was to establish unity in Parliament. At the same time, yesterday we heard the statement of the chairman of the National Movement, which again shows hypocrisy. He says that the government of the Georgian Dream is the Russian government and as Putin will be defeated in Ukraine, the Georgian government must be defeated at the same time, and so on.

Of course, they have no desire for unity, it is, among other things, an undignified attempt to make such an important issue of Ukraine, which concerns the security of Ukraine and at the same time, the security of Georgia, part of the agenda of daily mercantile politics. The Georgian Dream faction is not going to allow this,” Papuashvili said.

The opposition called for holding, and President Salome Zourabichvili approved convoking an extraordinary sitting on February 25.