Speaker says people expect EU to condemn storming Presidential Palace before commenting on Georgia

“The Georgian people have a single expectation: that Commissioner Kos will, after a month at least, condemn the storming of the Presidential Palace, which resulted in 25 police officers being injured,” the Speaker of Georgia’s Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, told journalists.

Papuashvili commented on the upcoming publication of the European Union’s enlargement report scheduled for November 4.

According to Shalva Papuashvili, organisations funded by the European Union and Brussels were involved in organising the October 4 events. Before making any statements about Georgia, the EU must first distance itself from the violent storming of the Presidential Palace.

“A month has passed since an attempted coup occurred in Georgia and foreign-backed individuals carried out a storming of the Presidential Palace. A month has passed whilst EU Commissioners, including Commissioner Kos and Commissioner Kallas, refuse to condemn the storming of the Presidential Palace. Therefore, I would have, and the Georgian people have a single expectation: that Commissioner Kos will, after a month at least, condemn the storming of the Presidential Palace, which resulted in 25 police officers being injured, including two officers seriously.

To this day, neither the EU Ambassador nor his leadership, Commissioner Kos and Commissioner Kallas, have enquired after the fate and health of these police officers, nor have they condemned the attack on the Presidential Palace.

Therefore, the Georgian people expect that before they say anything at all about Georgia, the first thing they must do is condemn and distance themselves from the violent storming of the Presidential Palace, since organisations financed by the European Union and Brussels, including media organisations, were involved in organising the October 4 events.

I would also remind you that on October 4, parallel to the storming of the Presidential Palace, various representatives from Brussels were encouraging and supporting this violence on social media. I remind you of statements from Ms Juknevičienė, other MEPs, and also from various European capitals.

Georgia narrowly escaped chaos here, and no one knows what the outcome would have been had it not been for the timely response by our security system, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and others. Therefore, the first thing they must say is to condemn and distance themselves from the attack,” Shalva Papuashvili noted.