Ukraine’s Arakhamia “ready” to help Georgian politicians contact EU leaders

Head of the Servant of the People faction in the Ukrainian state legislature, David Arakhamia, who was accused of cooperation with “destructive Georgian parties” by the ruling Georgian Dream, said Sunday he was ready to visit Georgia and help the country’s politicians contact the EU leaders to facilitate Georgia’s European integration process. 

 

Speaking with the opposition-minded Mtavari channel, Arakhamia suggested that “institutionally” Georgia was ready to receive the EU candidate status by the end of this year. However, he said there were “a number of pseudo processes in depth.”  

 

Arakhamia stated that he could see “no political will” in the ruling party to ensure Georgia’s European integration, noting that the people of Georgia wished for the EU integration and the “politicians are obliged to move for this.”  

 

He claimed that the only precondition for his arrival and the promised support was the presence of a “non pro-Russian” political party, no importance of the name of such a party or its leaders.” 

 

The ruling party had accused Arakhamia, who is of Georgian origin, of backing a “destructive” United National Movement party” in Georgia, who, per the GD, had plans to overthrow the current state leadership and “drag Georgia” into Russia’s war in Ukraine.