Georgia Criticizes CoE’s Stance over Adjara

Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili criticized statement of the Council of Europe Secretary General Walter Schwimmer over the recent developments in Adjara as “incorrect.”

In his statement on May 2 Walter Schwimmer said, while commenting explosion of bridges in Adjara, “it is shocking to hear, that in … Georgia bridges are exploded because the central and the local [Adjarian] authorities have lost their ability to dialogue.”
 
“Explosion of bridges does not mean that the central authorities of Georgia and Adjara’s regional leadership have lost their ability to dialogue as marked in the CoE statement. Simply, this act was directed by one person [Aslan Abashidze] against his own people,” Salome Zurabishvili, Georgian Foreign Minister told Rustavi 2 television late on May 3.

She also said that the Georgian Foreign Ministry has already urged the Council of Europe to make urgent corrections to the statement.

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