The President of the European Parliament [EP], Roberta Metsola, has invited former Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili to speak at the EP.  

“President Metsola opened the 16-19 December plenary session in Strasbourg by praising Georgia’s protestors, and marking the cyclone in Mayotte with a minute’s silence for victims.

President Metsola expressed the EP’s solidarity with the people who have taken to the streets of Tbilisi to protest in recent weeks, following the country’s disputed parliamentary election. “To the people of Georgia, we see you, we hear you, and we stand with you”, she declared, calling for decisive action from the EU – including sanctions against those responsible for perpetrating violence against peaceful protestors. 

She has invited former Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili to speak at the EP at a future session, adding that, “together we stand with Georgia in its journey towards Europe, and our door will always remain open”, -reads the press-release.