On the eve of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) adopted the resolution “Further escalation of the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine”, in which the Russian Federation is called “terrorist regime.” “Voice of America” writes that the Georgian delegation was not present in the meeting room on the voting day.
At the same time, the publication notes, the day before the vote in PACA, at the 11th Extraordinary Special Session in Ukraine at the UN General Assembly, Georgia, together with 143 states, supported the resolution condemning the annexation of the Ukrainian regions.
Opponents of the Georgian authorities consider it the reason for ignoring the Georgian delegation of voting in PACA that in the resolution adopted on October 13, ex-president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili is mentioned as political prisoner.
“Assembly calls the Russian authorities for the immediate liberation of Vladimir Kara-Murza. Assembly calls for a revision of the affairs of other opposition political prisoners in the Russian Federation and other countries, as well as their liberation, including Mikhail Saakashvili, a citizen of Ukraine and the former president of Georgia”, – said in the document.
In the ruling “Georgian dream” they called the mention of Saakashvili in the PACE resolution “unfair.” The party of the authorities said that this entry appeared in the document at the very last moment “at the initiative of the“ Unified National Movement ”, the largest opposition party in Georgia, which Saakashvili founded, and the“ European People’s Party ”, which, according to the“ Georgian Dreams ”statements, Allegedly “lobbying” the interests of the Third President of Georgia.
The imprisonment himself in prison himself commented on the PACE resolution: “Mentioning my name as a personal prisoner of Putin is an accurate description of the situation, but I can’t say that it pleases me. It harms the international reputation of Georgia and I believe that in the prevailing A difficult situation is an additional internal confrontation entails negative consequences for Georgia, while the country needs consolidation and unity. “