Specific ambassadors are directly involved in political processes, which is a crude violation of the principle of democracy, and this is a crude violation of the principles of the Vienna Convention, their actions require a response. Such a statement made today the Prime Minister of Georgia.

“Ambassadors cannot act with Soviet approaches, and their summoning is a diplomatic measure whose sole purpose is precisely this: for ambassadors to return to diplomatic frameworks.

You may recall [Emmanuel] Macron’s statement about one of the ambassadors. He made a much softer statement, this statement didn’t really imply interference in French politics, but France’s President immediately reacted. With us, there is direct, crude interference not only in politics, but encouragement of radicalism and polarisation, which is a crude violation of the Vienna Convention [VC]…

The VC prohibits interference in political processes, which has a very crude form, very often. This included direct interference in electoral processes: the EU ambassador came out and directly called on voters to mobilise against the acting government. A cruder violation of the VC than this simply doesn’t exist.

You may recall that ambassadors attended court proceedings to exert influence on judges, which is also a crude violation of the VC and the principle of judicial independence.

Ambassadors shouldn’t behave this way, especially those ambassadors who represent Europe. Europe was traditionally a symbol associated with rules, a symbol of respect for rules, and now we see that ambassadors from the EU, unfortunately, often crudely violate principles and rules, which is categorically unacceptable. An ambassador in Georgia must behave as befits an ambassador and not like a politician”, - said Irakli Kobakhidze.