UNM refuses to visit Ukraine as part of Georgian parliament speaker’s delegation

The largest opposition party in the Georgian parliament, the United National Movement (UNM),  and its faction has refused to visit Ukraine as part of the delegation of the Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili.

 

“This delegation with the Speaker of the Parliament will not include representatives of our faction. As for the visit, I will, of course, go to Kyiv, I will go there many times, I have been there many times before,” UNM MP Khatia Dekanoidze said earlier today.

 

Papuashvili has publicly offered all  opposition groups in the Parliament to be present in his delegation, noting that the delegation would include only several MPs, three from the ruling party and three from the opposition.

 

The ruling party MP, former Parliament Speaker Archil Talakvadze said that “we are not going to trade with the opposition over quotas regarding the sensitive issue which is the visit to Ukraine.”

 

He said that the opposition has time by the end  of the day to make their plans clear.