The fifth president of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, believes that the European Union cannot be considered a "real player" in the South Caucasus without a tough stance against the "Georgian Dream" government. He announced this in an interview with France 24 TV channel, News Georgia reports.
"There is a real problem for the European Union, which has ambitions to build a real foreign policy in this region of the world, the Caucasus, where there is also Armenia, which is waiting for a turn to Europe. If the EU does not have tools, or if these tools are blocked by one veto, it will not be able to become a real player," Zurabishvili said. Speaking about geopolitical interests, he recalled the presence of "huge infrastructure projects" in the Black Sea and China's role in Georgia. growth.
"If China comes to the Black Sea port of Anaklia, as the ruling party in Georgia wants, in fact, it is negotiating with China behind closed doors, then it will be a challenge to European foreign policy. The same would happen if the ruling party could provide China with the second airport in Tbilisi." - he said.
