Salome Zurabishvili – We cannot close an eye to threats which intimidate people and whole society

15:26, 06.03.2019

We cannot close an eye to the threats which intimidate people and whole society in the form of slander and false information – Georgia’s President Salome Zurabishvili said during delivering her first annual speech in the parliament.

President underlined that polarization was raging in the country and that a violent environment was intimidating lives of every person.

“The public expects the boiling water to become calmer. It needs peace and reconciliation. This requires the processes developed in information and social networks to be brought under civilized frameworks. We should stop fresh floods of misinformation, slander, the language of hatred and secret recordings reflecting private life,” Zurabishvili said.

President claimed that neither the democratic system nor state stability would be preserved in the country without protected and objective information.

Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze, members of the government and Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze are attending delivering of the annual speech by President Salome Zurabishvili.

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