Shalva Papuashvili: “The candidate countries must be seen as participants in the enlargement process, not its objects.”

It is shameful that they have such a narrow political goal, to somehow bring Natsebi [opposition United National Movement party] into power, and are ready to sow resentment within society and introduce radicalism… I am disappointed by…

It is therefore important that Brussels return to the path of dialogue. We have always expressed our readiness for this, and we hope we will have the opportunity to restore dialogue with various EU institutions.

We are still waiting for this dialogue to be restored. It is important that member states also work with EU institutions and convince them that the answers lie not in confrontation and conflict, but always in dialogue.

In today’s turbulent world, when it is very easy to find pretexts for confrontation, striving for dialogue and finding the points that unite us rather than divide us takes on particular importance.