My advice to all foreign actors would be - if they don't want to embarrass themselves with the Georgian people once again and apologize, to be guided by facts and not by perceptions, - this is how the Speaker of the Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, answered the journalists' question about the international feedback regarding the elections.
According to him, foreign actors put themselves in an awkward position with hasty statements.
"I do not advise anyone to make hasty decisions. Experience shows us that later the facts show something else - sometimes foreign actors find themselves in an awkward position. It's true, they don't apologize anymore, but they have to apologize. Let me remind you about the issue of Mikheil Saakashvili. When they came to the Ministry of Justice on a false basis in the name of 27 EU countries and announced a demarcation to Georgia. These accusations were substantiated by the then public defender, Nino Lomjaria. The basis of the same demarche was created by non-governmental organizations, which claimed the same at that time, and the opposition. Even now, who is creating the noise and the coriantal of pseudo-evidence? This is created by the opposition and exactly the same non-governmental organizations. My advice to all foreign actors would be - if they don't want to embarrass themselves with the Georgian people once again and apologize, they should be guided by facts, not perceptions.
Today and tomorrow are the deadlines for filing complaints. Everyone, including foreign observers, will see the picture. There will be a review of these complaints. You can see that CEC is an unprecedentedly transparent organization", said Shalva Papuashvili.
