Kavelashvili: "Our key policy is a policy of peace"
In an interview with the Swiss publication Neue Zürcher ZeitungRussia, Georgian President Mikhail Kavelashvili stated that Russia has occupied Georgian territories, there are no diplomatic relations between the countries, only economic ones remain.
"Our key policy is a policy of peace. Our brothers and sisters, Abkhazians and Ossetians, live in the occupied areas. We believe that the occupation is temporary. We hope that in the future Georgia will become a united and developed state," Kavelashvili said.
According to him, representatives of foreign governments demanded that Georgia join the war against Russia and exerted pressure. At the same time, Kavelashvili noted that Tbilisi's policy has never been anti-European or anti-American.
"The world has no alternative. This became obvious after Donald Trump's victory in the elections. He and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio say the same thing that we have always said," the Georgian president emphasized.
Protests against the government have been going on in Georgia for over two months. Participants continue to demand new parliamentary elections. They also oppose the government's suspension of the country's European integration process into the EU until 2028.
The country's fifth president, Salome Zurabishvili, continues to state in interviews with various channels and publications that she does not recognize her successor Kavelashvili and "continues her mandate."
