After his consultation with his colleague from Georgia, Ilia Darchiasvili, he reported that there is nothing new under the sun, exactly what is happening in the South Caucasus country, as is usual in Europe, that if the national, sovereignist, pro-peace forces win an election anywhere, then immediately a huge attacks are coming. “International organizations and the foreign ministers of Northern and Western European countries are immediately lining up to see who will say the harshest about democracy lying in ruins. If, on the other hand, a liberal party wins, then, interestingly, democracy in the given country will return to its peak form.
We have seen this in many European countries, and it is no different in Georgia,” he said. “Clearly, there is enormous disappointment in Brussels, enormous disappointment in liberal circles in Europe, because (…) they expected that if they appointed a government here, they would appoint a political actors, then the Georgian people will automatically choose them. That’s not what happened,” he added. He then called it shameful that those involved are not willing to accept the final result in Georgia and deny the right and maturity of the country’s citizens to make their own decisions about their future.
“It would be time for everyone in Brussels to get used to the fact that the governments of certain countries are not appointed from Brussels, neither in the European Union nor outside of it,” he stated. He also touched on the criticisms of the European People’s Party, underlining that the party family apparently cannot tolerate a sovereignist, pro-peace and pro-family party that prioritizes the national interest winning the election in a country. “This probably also indicates the bad conscience of the EPP, because we are talking about a party family that used to be right-wing, then it was in a coalition with the socialists in the European Parliament for too long and adapted to the socialists better than the socialists adapted to it, which is why the EPP drifted into the European practically to the left of political life,” he noted.
“The most ridiculous thing in all of this is that one of the loudest critics is the Lithuanian foreign minister, (…) who (in the elections held in his country) was so weakened that he will not even take over the mandate he won on the list, and instead of remaining silent, instead of that he would accept the people’s decision and perhaps consider whether he was put on the bench not because of what he has done so far, he continues the same and criticizes the ruling party of Georgia, which won by 54 percent, with all his might,” he explained. The minister called it a huge achievement that the Georgian government was able to guarantee the country’s peace in the known geopolitical and regional environment despite the known circumstances.
“Since this ruling party has been at the head of the country, since then there has been no war, no armed conflict, which shows that if one makes efforts, if one really wants peace, it can be achieved,” he said. “There are many people in Brussels who wanted Georgia to become a second Ukraine, but the Georgian people resisted this. Because if Georgia had become a second Ukraine, it would have meant a lost war, many hundreds of thousands of dead and many millions of displaced people, because that’s what the war in Ukraine meant,” he emphasized.
“Georgia did not want to be a second Ukraine, and Georgians made a clear decision about this, even if it hurts a lot in Brussels,” he concluded. Péter Szijjártó emphasized that there has been a strategic partnership between Georgia and Hungary for several years, which is also reflected in the results. He believed that European energy security and the green transition largely depended on the Azeri-Georgian-Romanian-Hungarian cooperation, as the four countries recently agreed to import the green energy produced in the Caucasus to Central Europe through a world-record length undersea pipeline.
He informed that the joint venture of the four countries has already been established with headquarters in Bucharest and a general manager in Azerbaijan, and the feasibility study of the investment will be completed by the end of the year, and from then on, work can begin on the technical, construction, and financial plans. He then went on to say that Hungary is aware that European Union integration is an extremely complicated process, and that is why the government is ready to share its experience, and concluded an agreement on the training of fifty Georgian public administration specialists at the Hungarian Diplomatic Academy.
