The ruling party’s Communications Department claims the EU Ambassador is “spreading disinformation” about the country’s Euro-Atlantic integration process

The Communications Department of the ruling Georgian Dream party claimed on Friday that the European Union’s Ambassador to the country, Pawel Herczyński, was “spreading disinformation” by claiming that the Georgian Government had suspended the country’s Euro-Atlantic integration process for four years.

Herczyński’s comments came after Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on Thursday said talks on the country’s accession to the European Union had been suspended and the bloc’s budget until 2028, citing interest in “dignified” integration amid a “series of insults and blackmail” by European politicians. It came after he announced he was refusing to accept their grants. bureaucrats”.

“We took note of Mr. Kobakhidze’s statement yesterday announcing that Georgia is not interested in EU membership for the next four years. “Of course it is extremely sad and really heartbreaking for me,” the EU ambassador said on Friday.

In the statement, the Ministry noted that the Government “will remain fully committed to the implementation” of the Association Agreement with the EU despite the suspension of the accession process and emphasized that “90 percent” of the Agreement will be fulfilled by 2028.