4 Mar 2022 16:40

Georgia delays annual presidential report in parliament

TBILISI. March 4 (Interfax) - The Georgian Parliament Bureau has decided that Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili will not deliver her annual report on Saturday, March 5, Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said.

In his words, the annual presidential report should be an interactive event, especially in the context of the events in Ukraine, but the parliament rules do not envisage this opportunity.

"We are ready to listen to the president in a more interactive form, so that representatives of parliamentary factions have a chance to declare their stance after the presidential report is delivered. I will soon meet with the president and will coordinate the date of her speech in the parliament," Papuashvili said.

Earlier this week, Zourabichvili visited Brussels and Paris to express Georgia's firm support for Ukraine. Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili made a different statement. He said, for instance, that Georgia would not impose sanctions on Russia in order not to do harm to the people of Georgia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recalled the Ukrainian ambassador from Tbilisi after that.