Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said today, at a joint press conference in Budapest with Georgian Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili, that EU officials had sent a proposal to member states earlier that day “suggesting that the Georgian Minister of the Interior and two high-ranking police officers be placed on the European sanctions list. If any such proposals are received, we will veto them, and you can be assured of that.”
In the last two weeks of constant “Maidan”- style demonstrations in Tbilisi, more than 400 people have been arrested and more than150 police have been injured. Some in the West have been disappointed that Georgian authorities have been able to control the demonstrations. The EU’s diplomatic service today declared that “the recent repressive means used by Georgian authorities have consequences for our bilateral relations.”
