“The storm carried out to arrest Nika Melia has revealed the crisis of democracy in Georgia”

The head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Latvian Seimas, Richard Coles, posted a statement on his official Twitter account regarding the political crisis in Georgia, in which the heads of the foreign affairs committees of eight countries called on the authorities to exercise restraint.

"The government should not promote anti-democratic actions, instead of confrontation, it is important to solve problems through negotiations.

A raid on the United National Movement office to arrest Nika Melia has exposed the crisis of democracy in Georgia. The violence is incompatible with the aspirations of the Georgian government and contradicts the March 8, 2020 agreement between the government and the opposition, which was facilitated by the Ambassadors of the United States and the European Union to Tbilisi.

We call on Georgians to unite, not to resort to tactics that have already been tried by others to solve problems, it will be directed against the interests of the citizens of Georgia.

The destabilizing and anti-democratic actions that started after the parliamentary elections and continue to this day emphasize the responsibility of those in power, they owe it to themselves to act with restraint and act in the national interest. "There is no doubt that Georgia is part of the European family, but violence and attacks on freedom pose a threat to all of this," the statement said, signed by the US Senate, the German Bundestag, the British House of Commons, the Czech Senate and the Baltic Foreign Affairs Committees.