“The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE PA) is the only body which said the two truths, that violence against state institutions is not acceptable, while boycott cannot be deemed as a replacement of the political process,” said Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili in the GPB First Channel’s Topic of the Day program.

According to the Speaker, none from the European Union admitted these two truths.

“We are grateful to the OSCE PA delegation. They named two significant issues. The first statement is that violence against state institutions is not acceptable. The OSCE PA is the only body that has stated this simple truth. The other statement is that a boycott cannot be deemed a replacement for the political process; this is another truth. They repeated these simple thesises during meetings and are the two truths never ever admitted by any representative from the European Union.

Madam Koss spoke about inconceivable things. She has no idea what country she is speaking about. The EU failed to utter these two truths as in the case of its ambassador who never said that overthrow with violence and boycott are unaccaptable. Why doesn’t the EU Ambassador say that? What about the EU or Brussels? The very moment they say that, they will take away the nutrition from the radical opposition they gave. They will strip away their justification for boycotting parliamentary activities and renouncing their mandates, they will strip away the violence at the presidential palace, and most importantly, their legitimization of future violence. Those who do not condemn violence open the path to future violence. This is a regrettable reality to say about the EU today,” he said.

On March 11, the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (OSCE) released a statement regarding its recent visit to Georgia. The statement reads that “the use of violence against state institutions is not acceptable. Change must be made through the ballot box and through policy-making bodies, not through violence aimed at overthrowing them.”