Ruling party head: Georgia's involvement in war would mean "destruction" of country
Kobakhidze pointed to the largest opposition party in the country as one that "clearly wanted" to see a conflict breaking out in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Photo: Georgian Dream Press Office
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Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said Georgia getting involved in a war against Russia amid the ongoing hostilities in Ukraine would mean a "destruction" of the country.
Kobakhidze pointed to the largest opposition party in the country as one that "clearly wanted" to see a conflict breaking out in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
"The National Movement clearly wants this. They neither can, nor want to, hide this. [And] similar statements were made directly by Ukrainian authorities," the GD official said in reference to Oleksiy Danilov, the Ukrainian Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council saying the Georgian Government attempting to retake its Russian-occupied regions by force would help Ukraine in its defence against the Russian invasion.
On March 11, Kobakhidze said Georgia was the" only country in the world" where the opposition was "using the war" unleashed by Russia in Ukraine for a "campaign to damage" its own country.
Irakli Zarkua, an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party, has called on opposition parties in Georgia to avoid "acting like the fifth column" in the country amid the crisis of the war in Ukraine.
The citizens living in Georgia’s Russian-occupied territories should know the Government’s position that the country’s territorial integrity can only be restored through peaceful means and not through use of force, Sozar Subari, an MP from the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party, said at a Parliament plenary sitting today.
The Georgian Government remains committed to the policy of peaceful de-occupation and will resist “all provocations” aimed at escalating a new military confrontation with “our Abkhaz and Ossetian brothers and sisters,” Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, said on Monday.
The ruling Georgian Dream party and opposition MPs on Sunday asserted the country was on a “peaceful path” and would not get involved in war, following remarks by Oleksiy Danilov, the Ukrainian Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, who said Georgia would “greatly help” Ukraine by opening military fronts against Russia to forcefully regain control over the occupied breakaway Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday said the foreign policy course of the Government was “unwavering,” while pointing to “legitimate suspicions” of a part of the domestic opposition having an interest in involving the country in conflict.