Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has announced that she will boycott Georgian Airways, which began operating direct flights to Moscow from Saturday.
About this, as he writesEuropean truth” with reference to Interpressnewsshe said in an emergency address on Saturday.
According to Zurabishvili, Georgian Airways is a company that “uses this state to get rich,” and it has been so “under all governments.”
“Now she is using a new reality, which is unacceptable to a very large part of the population. I will refrain from using the aircraft as long as it is in the hands of Georgian Airways, so as not to enrich the company,” the President of Georgia said.
She called on other Georgians to join the boycott of the airline.
As reported, a Georgian Airways flight from Tbilisi to Moscow – the first direct flight from Tbilisi launched after four years – landed on Saturday at Russia’s Vnukovo airport.
The airline has previously issued emotional statementcalling for “dirty hands” to be removed from it, calling opponents of rapprochement with Russia and direct air travel “comical nonentities”, and calling himself patriots of Georgia.
Recall that on May 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin abolished the visa regime for citizens of Georgia and at the same time lifted the flight ban Russian airlines to Georgia. In recent days, Georgia has allowed three airlines to operate direct flights to the Russian Federation, including those that served flights to annexed Crimea.
Read more on the EP website: Crimean nail in relations with Georgia: how Tbilisi destroys strategic partnership with Kiev.
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2023-05-20 14:59:27
