Great Britain decided to freeze the political dialogue with Georgia. The annual strategic event Wardrop Dialogue has been put on pause, previously planned high-level defense negotiations have been canceled and the cybersecurity program has been stopped. The reason for this was the anti-Western course of the current Georgian government; London’s decision may change after the upcoming Georgian elections.
The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to this country, Gareth Ward, spoke about changes in relations between Great Britain and Georgia in an interview with Interpress News. For the first time in the last ten years, the now traditional annual strategic dialogue Wardrop Dialogue, which took place at the ministerial level, will not take place.
London also canceled planned high-level defense talks and halted its cybersecurity program. The reason lies in the anti-Western stance taken by the current Georgian government, as well as the rollback of democracy it has set in motion. “I expected that we would work together to strengthen Georgia’s resilience and our shared prosperity, but over the past year the Georgian government has charted a different course, and During my first months in Tbilisi, I had to articulate our concerns about the decline of democracy and anti-Western rhetoric.
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