Georgian Chargé d’Affaires has been summoned to Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Minister of Sweden, Maria Malmer Stenergard, said.

“Together with several European Foreign Ministers and Kaja Kallas, I have issued a statement regarding the deteriorating situation in Georgia. The recent imprisonment and detention of the leaders of Georgian opposition – as well as arbitrary arrests and increasing repression of representatives of civil society, peaceful protesters and independent journalists – contribute to the dismantling of democracy in Georgia, in contradiction to European norms and values.

On Friday July 11, the Georgian Chargé d’Affaires was summoned to the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, where a senior official expressed serious concern regarding the human rights situation in Georgia,” she wrote on the X Platform.

The British Embassy in Georgia released a joint statement of Foreign Ministers from 17 countries and the EU High Representative on the recent developments in Georgia.

The FMs and EU High Representative call on the Georgian authorities to immediately release unjustly detained politicians, journalists and activists, to reverse repressive legislation and to engage in a national dialogue with all relevant stakeholders to find a way out of the current situation.