Ruling party head: Georgia “ready to play role” in ensuring South Caucasus peace
Kobakhidze was commenting after the latest escalation of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region overnight on Tuesday, with casualties confirmed. Photo: Georgian Dream Press Office
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Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said Georgia was “ready to play its own role” in ensuring peace in the South Caucasus region “within its capabilities”.
Kobakhidze was commenting after the latest escalation of hostilities between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region overnight on Tuesday, with casualties confirmed.
The most important thing for us is to ensure peace in the region. This is our main source of pain, our main desire and task. If Georgia and Georgian authorities can play any role in this regard, of course, we are ready in every way”, the GD official said.
In his remarks over the matter, Kobakhidze stressed the “main task for everyone” should be to stop the conflict.
We said this in relation to Ukraine, and of course it is even more sensitive for us when it comes to our two neighbouring and friendly countries [Armenia and Azerbaijan]. In this regard, if we can do anything, we will certainly do everything”, he concluded.
Principal questions of the cooperation agenda between Georgia and Armenia were discussed in a meeting of Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and his Armenian counterpart Nikol Pashinyan on Friday in Tbilisi.
United States Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Sunday called the inaugural meeting of Azerbaijani and Armenian foreign ministers, Jeyhun Bayramov and Ararat Mirzoyan, in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi as a “positive step” for regional dialogue.
The European Union supports the “bilateral decision” of Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers, Ararat Mirzoyan and Jeyhun Bayramov, to hold their inaugural meeting in Georgia’s capital Tbilisi, Toivo Klaar, the EU Special Representative for the South Caucasus, said on Saturday.
The South Caucasus Peaceful Neighbourhood Initiative, a dialogue platform for normalisation of relations in the region and cooperation in mutually beneficial areas of economy, trade and culture was discussed on Saturday in a meeting between Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov.
Georgian and Armenian prime ministers Irakli Garibashvili and Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday discussed the latest military escalation between Azerbaijan and Armenia in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili on Thursday condemned the “dangerous escalation” between Armenia and Azerbaijan, following the latest flare-up in hostilities between the two countries over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region this week.
Relations and cooperation between Georgia and Armenia were discussed on Monday in a meeting between the Georgian defence minister Juansher Burchuladze and Ashot Smbatyan, the newly appointed Armenian ambassador to Georgia.
Georgian foreign minister Ilia Darchiashvili on Thursday addressed the occupation of Georgian territories by Russia and the regional Peaceful Neighborhood Initiative by the country’s prime minister Irakli Garibashvili at the ongoing 29th meeting of the ministerial council of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Sunday received the highest prize of the Sabino Arana Foundation for his contribution to promoting Georgian-Basque ties, democracy and human rights, the party press office said.