Georgian president says government refused her visits to France, Ukraine

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili had planned to visit Poland, Ukraine, and France for talks on granting the republic EU candidate status, but the government did not allow her to do so.

According to TASS, Salome Zurabishvili said this during a working visit to Brussels.

"I wanted to travel to France as well, Poland, and even Ukraine, with who we are in this together and to who we should be thankful because without them there would be no accelerated candidacy status, but I had received yet another refusal over this trip. I was told that the government had already done everything to support the candidate status process," Zurabishvili said today during her televised address.

"I don't believe Georgia has a future other than a European one. I don't think we should kill this process for anybody, not for Saakashvili, not for Gvaramia, not for Bidzina Ivanishvili. No one is worth it if we don't protect our children's future. That's why I'm going back to Georgia and I will protect that future from there," she concluded.