TBILISI, July 8 – Former Georgian prime minister Giorgi Gakharia has accused the ruling Georgian Dream party of failing to defend Georgia’s national interests abroad, saying his own team is trying to do that work at the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly session in The Hague.
Gakharia, who now leads the opposition party Gakharia for Georgia, wrote on X on Tuesday that he was holding “important meetings” with OSCE leaders, international partners and delegations that have supported Georgia for decades.
His comments came during the annual session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, an international forum that brings together lawmakers from participating states.
Gakharia said Georgian Dream was using international platforms for “lies” and to hide reality. He said his party was instead doing what the government refuses to do: defending Georgia’s national interests, territorial integrity and sovereignty.
He accused the government of making empty promises about restoring Georgia’s territorial integrity and of trying to make the public accept the loss of the country’s occupied territories and the destruction of its European future.
“This is no longer just inaction, this is collaborationism,” Gakharia wrote.
Georgia’s occupied territories usually refers to Abkhazia and South Ossetia, regions that broke away from Tbilisi’s control in the early 1990s and where Russia has maintained a military presence since the 2008 war.
Gakharia said that, because of what he called government inaction, his main task in The Hague was to mobilize partners against what he described as Russia’s accelerated annexation process in Georgia’s occupied territories, especially recent developments in the Tskhinvali region during the last three months.
He said he and his team would continue fighting wherever Georgia’s voice needs to be heard, in defense of the country’s European future, sovereignty and territorial integrity.
