Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili stated on Monday that “we respect the sovereignty of every country, but most of all we love our homeland and our main duty is to protect the interests of Georgia.”

According to the Head of Government, “the role of ambassadors in this great mission is profoundly big as they need to convey the message and represent the interests of our country in the right manner to every capital city of the world.”

While summarizing the 2022, the PM went on to say that “the main problem and challenge for the entire world – is the war waged in Ukraine and manifesting itself in an unjustified military aggression of Russia, which turned the entire world order upside down.”

He stressed that Georgian embassy to Ukraine and personally the ambassador to Ukraine performed their duties “until the very last minute, while embassies of other countries were leaving Kiev.”

The PM believes “current developments are a tremendous challenge to us all. It is our declared wish to have the war ended as soon as possible, as it creates threats not only to Ukraine itself, but to the security architecture of the entire Europe, our region.”

“I wish to note that we did our best and continue to this day in support of our Ukrainian friends. Since the dawn of the war, you may well be aware, we were vocal in supporting Ukraine at practically every platform by signing over 400 resolutions and statements, by declaring support to Ukraine and Ukrainian people.  I wish to note hereby that it was not pleasant to hear the statements made by representatives of Ukrainian authorities, to put it straight. Nevertheless, I wish to note that as the country and their government and entire nation is at war, we have no intention to make any additional statements on this topic and we stay away from commenting on it.

I wish to say one thing. Our main duty is to protect our national interests. I have said it on numerous occasions and we confirmed it with our policies and actions that we naturally respect the sovereignty of every country, however most of all we love our homeland and our main duty is to protect the interests of Georgia. Role of ambassadors in this great mission is profoundly big as you need to convey our message and represent the interests of our country in the right manner to every capital city of the world by combatting the disinformation campaign sadly pouring from within our country and others as well. We understand it well that this is an orchestrated attack against the national interests of our homeland. That is why, this attack of disinformation requires effective, counter actions and response measures,” Garibashvili stated.