“There no longer exists a bright and dark side of history, a simple confrontation between geopolitical good and evil, the hegemony of one civilisation over another,” Speaker of Parliament Shalva Papuashvili stated during his address at the Conference of Ambassadors 2025.

According to Papuashvili, “nothing can ever be as it was yesterday, whilst today’s reality no longer allows for simple predictions of the future.”

“First and foremost, it is evident that the architecture of global security has collapsed. The unipolar world order no longer exists. The post-Cold War era of international relations has ended. States are urgently seeking a formula for a new balance of power. In this process, each player strives to maximally defend its own interests and maintain favourable positions. In this situation, national interest is no longer a theoretical concept. It has become the defining, decisive category of state policy. It is precisely through the prism of national interest that states make decisions, form alliances, and acquire influence.

There no longer exists a bright and dark side of history, a simple confrontation between geopolitical good and evil, the hegemony of one civilisation over another. Instead, there exists global confrontation, rival superpowers, and the desire for dominance. The contours of a new, multipolar world are emerging, where not a single player possesses an absolute moral monopoly. In this same context, the United States of America is effectively abandoning its role as ‘world policeman,’ a position that has ensured the functioning of the global order for decades.

New American doctrines clearly declare that the era has ended when the USA expended its own resources to impose civilisational models upon other countries. The sole absolute priority of American policy is its own national interest.

Europe and the European Union find themselves confronted with strategic uncertainty in this process. They are seeking new models of their own political, military, and economic security and sustainability, and are already realising: nothing can ever be as it was yesterday, whilst today’s reality no longer allows for simple predictions of the future.

It is precisely against this backdrop that the essence of Georgia’s policy becomes clear. It is now evident just how much pressure Georgia actually withstood when, whilst standing on the line of fire, it was being forced to play an active role in a doomed and losing scenario. In a process that, given the circumstances described here, would have ended accordingly. We resisted this pressure. We resisted it with the support and approval of the Georgian people,” Papuashvili stated.