Georgian journalists attacked Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a UN event in Geneva, trying to get him to answer whether the head of Russian diplomacy will be present in Tbilisi at a meeting of the Council of Europe Committee of Ministers, which will take place in May this year.
Official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova reported this in her blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Georgian journalists (and this is already a meme) at the UN Office in Geneva attacked the Russian delegation. It was impossible to walk. They shouted, shoved, pushed, trying to get through to the minister. We had to push aside women who had lost all dignity in order to move forward.
And do you know what was needed? It's impossible to believe! One question: will Lavrov come to Tbilisi? This is some kind of clouding of reason, to make oneself dependent on the arrival or non-arrival of a representative of another country. A pathetic sight,” Zakharova wrote.
According to a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Georgian media employees almost maimed Russian diplomats, and when trying to stop their behavior, they switched from Russian to English and shouted “Don’t touch me”:
“My colleague and I were caught, but the boss was not injured. But the most significant thing is that when they asked Lavrov questions in Russian, they shouted in English “don’t touch me.” Style “Saakashvili falling to the ground under fire from Russian aircraft”... When Swiss security forces push these women away, they do not complain. As soon as the girl said “that’s it” in Russian, the flowing “don’t touch me” began with some inarticulate sounds.”
In response to the provocations of Georgian journalists, Lavrov called them “sick girls.”
As PolitNavigator reported, in Georgia there is a risk of resumption of anti-Russian pogroms due to the likelihood of a visit to Tbilisi by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Georgia has held the rotating presidency of the Council of Europe since November. And the next meeting of the ministers of this association is scheduled for May in Tbilisi. Lavrov may also come there.
If Lavrov arrives, supporters of Mikheil Saakashvili promise “even more massive protests than in June 2019” - in their opinion, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry will fall under the law “On Occupation” and must be punished for his illegal, from Tbilisi’s point of view, visit to Abkhazia and South Ossetia.