Georgian speaker slams Western pressure over sanctions demands on Russia

Shalva Papuashvili, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, has described international demands for Georgia to impose sanctions on Russia as an “immoral practice” of global politics.

He commented on actions by the United Kingdom amid an energy crisis linked to imports of diesel fuel and aviation kerosene produced from Russian oil, Caliber.Az reports via Georgian media.

According to Papuashvili, the British ambassador previously attempted, in what he described as a “partly threatening tone,” to persuade Georgian authorities to stop importing Russian petroleum products.

“The moral of this story is that the British ambassador is not very bothered by the Georgian population. It is important for him to fulfill his tasks, and what happens to Georgian citizens, to put it correctly, is of less concern to the British ambassador. 

The second moral is that if we had listened to the British ambassador, as a result of the escalation today, economic ties with Russia would probably have been severed, we would have fallen into economic collapse, now we would not have the economic growth rates of up to 10%, but we would have a ruined economy. Unfortunately, this is how immoral international politics is, and we must realize this and make those who wave the British flag in front of the parliament understand this,” the speaker said.

By Jeyhun Aghazada