{"id":282210,"date":"2024-02-21T13:46:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T13:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282210"},"modified":"2024-02-22T07:30:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T07:30:32","slug":"we-wont-georgias-tight-slap-for-zelensky-after-second-front-against-russia-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=282210","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We Won&#8217;t&#8230;&#8217;: Georgia&#8217;s &#8216;Tight Slap&#8217; For Zelensky After &#8216;Second Front&#8217; Against Russia Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Hindustan Times \u2013 Feb 21, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2VYat5sAiSo?si=Tgv-RnF0eK034ioQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2VYat5sAiSo\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>EU candidate country rejects demands to sanction Russia<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT.com \u2013 Feb 21, 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Georgia will continue to resist calls to impose sanctions on Russia, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said on Tuesday. Tbilisi previously declined to join Western countries in adopting restrictions on Moscow, citing domestic security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting in Brussels with the top EU diplomat, Josep Borrell, Kobakhidze\u00a0was asked by reporters about Kiev&#8217;s demand for\u00a0<em>\u201ca second front\u201d<\/em> against Russia.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThese statements were very regrettable,\u201d<\/em> the PM said. He stressed that Georgia is providing <em>\u201cstrong political support\u201d<\/em> for Ukraine and is sending humanitarian aid to Kiev.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAs for the sanctions, we have a very clear position on this matter. We are not imposing sanctions, and we have strong arguments for doing so,\u201d<\/em> Kobakhidze explained, adding that Tbilisi will not be <em>\u201cused to circumvent\u201d<\/em>\u00a0the third-party restrictions placed on Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Borrell promised to <em>\u201cpass messages to the Ukrainian side of the good will of Georgia to have the best possible relations.\u201d<\/em> He further argued that quarrels between the two states would only <em>\u201cbenefit\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Russia. He also promised to continue working with Georgia, which in December 2023 was granted candidate status for eventual EU membership.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022, Ukraine\u2019s National Security and Defense Council\u00a0chief Aleksey Danilov urged Georgians to <em>\u201cstand up and defend their country\u201d<\/em> against Russia. President Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s top adviser, Mikhail Podoliak, similarly criticized Tbilisi&#8217;s stance, arguing that <em>\u201cvalues are more important than profit.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Georgia formally cut diplomatic ties with Russia following the five-day military conflict in August 2008. Russia has since recognized Georgia\u2019s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent countries. Georgia continues to accuse Russia of <em>\u201cillegally occupying\u201d<\/em> parts of its territory.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Tbilisi has\u00a0maintained\u00a0that imposing economic on Moscow would create unacceptable risks. <em>\u201cGeorgia does not intend to impose any bilateral sanctions because of the national interests of our population,\u201d<\/em> Shalva Papuashvili, the speaker of the country\u2019s parliament, said last year. He added that Georgia does not want any <em>\u201cescalation\u201d<\/em> with its northern neighbor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/592817-georgian-no-sanctions-russia\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rebuff to the EU, which it has applied to join, Georgia has also rejected a demand from Brussels that it apply sanctions on Russia <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=282210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282250,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282210\/revisions\/282250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}