Tea Tsulukiani: GD gov’t, its 1,100,000 voters stand for peace in Georgia and will not allow any destabilization of country

“The monitoring committee heard the case concerning our delegation and examined two different options: a. not to ratify our credentials and b. to ratify our credentials with a number of conditions. As a result, the monitoring committee rejected the option of not ratifying our credentials and I shall express our appreciation for that,” said Tea Tsulukiani, a member of the Georgian Dream and the Head of the Georgian delegation, at the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, in Strasbourg.

Tsulukiani went on to say that “a number of the conditions which accompany the ratification are problematic.”

“Especially the first condition aiming at announcing the new elections in coming months. I and my delegation met with many of you these days, dear Colleagues, and you do know very well why it is so. Therefore, I urge you not to go for these extraordinary conditions, not to support the draft resolutions and ratify our credentials with the condition to continue the normal way of work and already existing good cooperation with the monitoring committee of the Parliamentary Assembly and with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, in line of his recent visit in Georgia.

Let me underline again, to whom it may concern in this Assembly, that the Georgian Dream government and its 1,100,000 voters stand for peace in Georgia and will not allow any destabilization of the country; the country which still continues to be occupied by Russia.

Let me also reiterate that the Georgian Dream government, which has litigated and won 4 different interstate applications against Russia before the ECHR, cannot be validly said to be pro-Russian by anyone.

The Georgian Dream government that is proud to have one of the best penitentiaries amongst the CoE countries, to have one of the best statistics in the ECHR, to have wonderful cooperation with the rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee, and to be one of the best partners in many other sectorial fields, cannot be said to be backsliding just because some of you, dear Colleagues, dislike the Georgian people`s free choice to re-elect the Georgian Dream once again,” she stated.