“I would urge 17 countries to mind their business. How would they tolerate or react if their police are offended, parliament buildings are burnt and fired pyrotechnics,” said Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili.

According to the Speaker, Brussels bureaucracy is on the road leading to the Soviet Union.

“Regrettably, we see Brussels is sick and the government officials of some of EU capitals tend to speak with aggressive rhetoric, menacing an independent country.

The European Union should wake up quickly and return to the path of European values. The road Brussels bureaucracy stands is the road leading to the Soviet Union. It should turn back and return to core values such as respect for human rights and supremacy of law.

Those countries, and governments which say that offending police, and throwing Molotov Cocktails at law enforcers is peace do not acknowledge what respect for human rights and the rule of law mean.

Therefore hypocrisy should end they should turn back from the Soviet Union road and return to the European values path,” he said.

The British Embassy in Georgia released a joint statement of Foreign Ministers from 17 countries and the EU High Representative on the recent developments in Georgia.

The FMs and EU High Representative call on the Georgian authorities to immediately release unjustly detained politicians, journalists and activists, to reverse repressive legislation and to engage in a national dialogue with all relevant stakeholders to find a way out of the current situation.