The EU Ambassador openly threatening the Georgian people with civil war and a return to poverty is, of course, deeply troubling. Such a statement made today the Prime Minister of Georgia.

"Mr [Pawel] Herczyński had also threatened the Georgian people ahead of the parliamentary elections, when he called on voters to go to the polls and return the collective United National Movement [UNM] to power. That was, in effect, the substance of Mr Herczyński`s appeal at the time.

Naturally, returning the collective UNM to power would mean a return to the dark past we have already lived through, and that is not something the Georgian people want. It was precisely for this reason that, during the 2024 parliamentary elections, the Georgian people paid no heed whatsoever to Herczyński`s appeal.

They acted in their own interests, not at the behest of an EU Ambassador urging them to hand their country back, with their own hands, into the dark past of the collective UNM.

There was nothing new in what he said. It is what we have come to expect from the EU Ambassador. He made essentially the same statement again. It was nothing new, and yet a response was still deemed necessary, which is precisely why a diplomatic step was taken. Herczyński was summoned, and the Foreign Minister heard his explanations in person. That is the diplomatic measure that needed to be taken in this matter", - said Irakli Kobakhidze.