“Today, the global order is changing. The world will never be the same again and no one can find a way out of this difficult situation alone. We need unity and global consolidation for a new, just order. Only by standing together, we will achieve this goal,” Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili addressed the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Budapest, Hungary.

The Head of the Government noted that traditional, supreme, eternal, universal values that determine the country’s history and culture give Georgia strength for unity.

“Nevertheless, what gives us the strength to be united? Notably, the traditional, supreme, eternal, universal values that determine our entire history and culture, as well as our everyday life. These values can be easily expressed as follows: faith, freedom, peace, dignity, truth, equality, purity of the family, respect for parents, ancestors and traditions, love of the homeland and people, and hope for a better future.

Ilia II, the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, the wise and most respected person in our country, has summarized all of the aforementioned in the following postulates: God, Homeland, and Human-being. Essentially, the entire history of Georgia is based on the above-mentioned values, which are enshrined in the New Testament.

You probably are well aware that our country was one of the first to declare Christianity as the state religion, and around the same time, the New Testament was translated into Georgian in the second half of the 4th century. However, Christianity was preached in Georgia much earlier by the first apostles of Christ. Therefore, our history and culture have been defined by the values of the New Testament for more than two thousand years already. These values have always been the basis of Georgian identity, uniting our people.

Thanks to this very fact, the small and ancient country located in the epicentre of the clash of empires and civilizations survived the consequences of history even in the most difficult geopolitical situations that have destroyed numerous great and powerful empires,” the PM stated.