The Messenger
November 23, 2022

Shalva Papuashvili calls David Kramer’s statement ‘direct attack’ on government elected by Georgian people

Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia Shalva Papuashvili responded to the statement of the former US Assistant Secretary of State David Kramer, according to which sanctions should start with Bidzina Ivanishvili and sanctions should be imposed on those who follow Ivanishvili’s orders. Papuashvili called the statement “a direct attack on the government elected by the Georgian people.”

According to Shalva Papuashvili, the term “oligarchy” rising in Georgian reality, was ultimately aimed at “attacking the Georgian government”.

“He who attacks the government elected by the people of Georgia cannot be a friend of the Georgian people, this is an axiom, therefore, this is how we should look at the whole situation. To observe how the term ‘oligarchy’ originated in Georgian reality, how it developed, what interest was behind it, to make…