Speaker: Georgia's economic growth driven by national priorities, not foreign agendas
Georgia is a global leader in economic growth, surpassing the European Union and its candidate countries, the Georgian Parliament Speaker, Shalva Papuashvili, wrote on social media.
Papuashvili asserts that Georgia will continue progressing by prioritizing its own people’s interests over external influences. He highlights that only two countries, including oil-rich Guyana (43% growth), have higher economic growth than Georgia. He emphasizes that such progress wouldn’t have been possible if Georgia had agreed to certain external pressures.
“However, this growth would not have happened if we had:
▪️ agreed with Zelensky, who demanded the official dispatch of volunteers, which would have made us a party to the war
▪️ agreed with then-US ambassador, who categorically demanded sanctions and escalation against Russia (although she did not state this publicly)
▪️ followed Brussels’ demand to impose sanctions, restrict the entry of Russian citizens, and ban flights,
▪️ heeded the calls of the “sincere participants” of the February 2022 protest organized by the opposition and NGOs, right after the war began, and believed the authors of the previous three points (notably funded by the same sources behind these demands).
Had we acted on the advice of external influencers and those with their own agendas, there would have been no economic growth or leadership, just the risk of war and an economic collapse far worse than the one during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the reality we face now. As long as we prioritize our national interests, driven by the will of our people and not foreign influence, Georgia will progress. But if we wave other nations’ flags and consider foreign governments our own, regardless of the union we join, we will return to the Soviet Union,” he stated.