Speaker of the Georgian Parliament responds to the statement of the Moldovan President. As Maia Sandu said yesterday, she “would vote in favour of unification with neighbouring EU and NATO member Romania if a referendum were to take place to help protect its fragile democracy against Russian pressure”.

“When a country’s president intends to vote against the country’s independence, everything is clear…

What can we do? We are not giving up our 3000 years, which is proof that if you believe in your national identity, then even a “small country” can establish its own statehood in the historical turmoil.

At the same time, this statement clearly indicates that Moldova’s President herself views the prospect of joining the EU independently with skepticism and is glancing toward the GDR scenario - the path that led the German Democratic Republic into the European Union on the very day it was merged with the Federal Republic of Germany.

What can be said? This is also a way to Europe by losing sovereignty. I am confident that our nurtured “hyper-Europeans” might be looking to these 2 countries and by citing Article 78 of the Constitution would cede Georgia’s sovereignty immediately.

For them, no article is worth an article before Article 78. For us, the issue is simple – Georgia’s European path is the path of an independent state, not its abolition.

P.S. By the way, do not forget that on October 4, at the exact time when the storming of the Georgian presidential palace was underway, Maia Sandu, with an open and public statement, expressed support to violent groups involved in the attempt to overthrow the government”, - writes Shalva Papuashvili.