“To punish Georgia and completely sever it from the European Union would serve someone else’s interests far more than those of Brussels, the European Union, or Europe itself. If this were to happen, it would be a punitive operation, but I trust that nothing of the sort will occur and that Brussels will give greater thought to what Europe actually needs from Georgia today,” Georgia’s Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili told Imedi TV.

“We speak about this often; this need isn’t one-sided. It’s not simply that Georgia needs the European Union; the European Union needs Georgia too. This has its own geopolitical explanations and reality. This reality must be acknowledged and understood in Brussels,” Botchorishvili stated.

The Minister discussed the European Union’s attitude towards Georgia and Brussels’ policy.

“The attitude towards Georgia is genuinely not fair. This must change; the mutual needs that exist in relations between Georgia and the European Union must be acknowledged.

Today, in the European Union, some people don’t consider this policy of isolation successful, when Brussels refuses to speak to Tbilisi, thinking that we can achieve something this way. We can achieve nothing this way.

I’m convinced that at some point this will change, and it must. You’ve probably noticed that dialogue with European countries has intensified recently, dialogue with European capitals. More and more countries and capitals will come to realise that one cannot conduct relations with Georgia in this manner, and naturally, I trust that more capitals will, to some extent, question the correctness of Brussels’ policy,” Botchorishvili declared.