Georgian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Maka Bochorishvili has criticized a draft resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), describing it as another attempt to use international institutions for political purposes.
Speaking to journalists, Bochorishvili said certain groups were seeking to promote what she called anti-Georgian narratives through international organizations and have them formalized in resolutions.
“This is another attempt to use international organizations and institutions for political purposes. They are doing everything possible to ensure that narratives regarding Georgia, which have already been reflected in a number of resolutions, are repeated as widely as possible across different institutions and adopted in various forms,” Bochorishvili said.
She argued that international organizations were increasingly being used as political instruments, citing developments in the European Parliament, the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
“We have seen this in different institutions. We constantly see it in the European Parliament, we see it in the Council of Europe, and there was also an attempt to use it within the OSCE through the launch of the Moscow Mechanism regarding Georgia,” she said.
