Georgian PM: PACE activities to resume if European bureaucratic injustice eliminated

Georgia's activities in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will be restored if the injustice, wrong approach, and problems observed in European bureaucracy are eliminated, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told journalists, Report informs.

The prime minister added that the presence of Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko as one of the PACE figures makes the inconsistencies in the assembly's activities completely logical.

He noted that Goncharenko had directly demanded Georgia to open a second front.

"This decision was not solely Goncharenko's but was supported by like-minded individuals. He had demanded us to launch a military attack on Sukhumi and Tskhinvali. He couldn't achieve this, and now he's trying to punish us. Georgia is not a country that Goncharenko and his likes can punish," Kobakhidze emphasized.

Georgia's delegation to PACE announced the suspension of its activities in the organization on January 29. The delegation took this step after PACE adopted a resolution calling for Tbilisi to hold new parliamentary elections and imposing several other conditions.