Georgia rejects Kyiv's 'second front' call

TBILISI. March 27 (Interfax) - Tbilisi has taken a negative stance on an appeal from Ukrainian Security Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov calling on Georgia and Moldova to open a "second front" against Russia.

"The call for Georgia to start war against Russia does not match the interests of the Georgian people," Mikheil Sarjveladze, a member of the Georgian Dream ruling party and chairman of the parliamentary committee on human rights, said on Sunday.

Such statements "are wrong and are not justified," Sarjveladze said.

Representative of the Reforms Group parliamentary opposition faction Teona Akubardia, in turn, told reporters that calls for Georgia and Moldova to open a second front against Russia are an "unreasonable and morally unjustified statement."

"Georgia has international obligations to return territories exclusively by peaceful methods. We sympathize with Ukraine and support its sovereignty, while a deterioration of Georgian-Ukrainian relations today will suit only Russia," Akubardia said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recalled Ukraine's ambassador from Tbilisi on March 1 over the position of the Georgian government, which did not introduce sanctions against Russia, as well as over resistance to Georgian volunteers' departure to Ukraine.