The Georgian government has two unchanging primary objectives: restoring the country`s territorial integrity and ensuring the welfare of the Georgian people, writes Speaker of the Georgian Parliament on his Facebook page.

"Government of Georgia has 2 unchanging primary objectives: restoring country`s territorial integrity and ensuring the welfare of the Georgian people. In the struggle for territorial integrity, there is no place for political sentiments and illusions. A state and Government that doesn`t recognize Georgia`s territorial integrity can never be a friend of Georgian people. This is a fundamental truth.

For small states like Georgia, international law has always been the main instrument and shield. At the same time, it is a reality that its role and influence are irreversibly diminishing. What we have been saying has now been fully confirmed - the international order established after World War II no longer exists. There is nothing new for us in what has been revealed in Venezuela today. We saw this long ago and assessed it correctly. This is precisely the historical advantage of ancient nations

For millennia, we have endured similar "international orders", survived more than one geopolitical cataclysm, found our own path to survival.

It is precisely this knowledge that preserved our statehood when others disappeared. Today, our task remains the same - not to damage the state amid the storm unleashed by great powers and to bring it safely to a secure harbour. Global events have another important consequence for our society - they ultimately remove masks. As before, today they are the best catalyst for lustration

In recent days, we have once again witnessed that group of people who first longed for Maidan, then for Nepal, now for Venezuela. This is that cohort of foreign flag-wavers who have lost all hope of popular support, who cling like ivy to the hope of external forces, and who dream of "democracy bombs" and "liberalism missiles". Those who have been democratically defeated place their hopes in only one scenario for seizing power – coming to authority through external interference and violence.

History has given its name to such unpatriotic, treacherous Georgians – the Liparits, Korghanashvilis, Ordzhonikidzes – whilst society has assigned our contemporary traitors their rightful place.

Finally, the brief, several-minute-long operation conducted in Venezuela has also confirmed that the EU, once a guarantor of international order and a key global geopolitical actor, no longer exists - and, it seems, may never do so again. Moreover, it has become evident that Brussels will not hesitate to exploit breaches of the world order for its own purposes when it suits them.

Brussels’s actions towards Georgia, in violation of international law, serve as clear proof of this. The international storm that erupted in the very 1st days of January, which appears to be gathering strength, has only reinforced our commitment to our 2026 plan: to remain steadfast in the pursuit of peace and to avoid becoming entangled in others` scenarios.

Behind us stands a people who want peace and prosperity in an independent and unified Georgia. Every word and deed of those treacherous Georgians who glorify foreigners only confirms that achieving this goal is possible only for the Georgian Dream, and nothing and no one will divert us from this aim", - writes Shalva Papuashvili.