If the EU decides to grant Moldova and Ukraine candidate status and Georgia is not granted candidate status, this will deprive us of the opportunity to become a member of the EU for a long time. Such a statement made today Salome Samadashvili, a member of Lelo.

“We see today that open statements are made that Moldova may have a much better chance than Georgia to get candidate status, why? Because the Moldovan Government openly says that they do their best to meet all the criteria related to EU membership as soon as possible. What the Georgian Dream has done in recent weeks deliberately prevents the granting of candidate status to our country.

If the geopolitical arguments do not outweigh and the European Union does not give us the status of a candidate country, the Georgian Dream will bear full political responsibility”, - said Salome Samadashvili.