Zourabichvili Briefs Protesters on Meeting with Solana

Salome Zourabichvili, leader of Georgia’s Way party, told protesters at a rally outside the Parliament on May 19 that during the meeting with EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana in Brussels on Monday, she urged for EU’s “active involvement” in Georgia’s ongoing developments.

“I told him about the details of the [opposition’s] meeting with Mikheil Saakashvili and about his failure to acknowledge the political crisis persists in the country; I told him, that state institutions – the government, the parliament and all other institutions – are not functioning,” Salome Zourabichvili said.

She said that Solana had “wrong information” about the developments in Georgia and about the opposition “and that was very unpleasant.” “This misinformation is a result of our embassy there [in Brussels] and the authorities’ PR specialists,” Zourabichvili said.

“It required serious effort from me to explain him that the opposition is not split and that the opposition is not irresponsible,” she said.

Zourabichvili also said that the process was “moving to the last stage of the crisis.”

“May 26 will be one of the signs of it,” Zourabichvili said referring to the date when the opposition plans a large-scale rally, described by the opposition as “a new April 9,” when tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Tbilisi on the first day of ongoing rallies.

She said that EU’s “active involvement” would be required most of all when the final stage of the crisis come. “We will require serious efforts from our friends from the European Union. Nobody else will be able to do that, including the United States,” she said.

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