Tsulukiani thinks European Parliament's report created grounds to refuse candidacy status for Georgia
By Liza Mchedlidze
Friday, November 11, 2022
The Minister of Culture Thea Tsulukiani, on the air with Imedi TV, when asked about changes to Association Agreement document by European Parliament members, said that she assumes that the European parliamentarians have created the ground with the report, so if they need to, they will refuse Georgia's candidate status.
Thea Tsulikiani told journalists that because the Georgian Dream is still in power after 10 years and works to implement 12 recommendations issued by European Union for candidacy status for Georgia, she thinks they have decided to release some text that will create a ground for them to "say no later if they need to".
According to her, it is even more plausible because Georgia has received a completely unfair decision and other European parliamentarians will talk about it after 15 years, just as they are talking now that in 2008 they did not do everything to protect Georgia from Russian aggression.
"This is an unheard-of injustice, and years and generations of MEPs will say, "in 2008 we didn't do everything to protect you from Russia, and that's why, among other reasons, the trouble that's happening in Ukraine happened."Then they admit 15 years later that it was an injustice. God forbid, the disaster happens and Russia enters again. What will be the result of this resolution, what did they do? These are very serious questions. This resolution, let's not fool ourselves, is a bad text, but a bad text for everyone and, first of all, I think, for the European Parliament itself," Tsulukiani said.
According to Tsulukiani, she has doubts about this because everyone sees the possibility of the Georgian Dream having every recommendation fulfilled by December.
