Georgia swallowed Ukraine's diplomatic humiliation
Salome Zurabishvili's visit to Kyiv yesterday demonstrated the weakness of Georgia, which had to come to terms with diplomatic humiliation on the part of Ukraine - the employment of fugitive President Mikheil Saakashvili.
Kiev political scientist Sergei Belashko, director of the Agency for Social Communications, stated this in a commentary to a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Georgia is a weak country, dependent on external circumstances. Therefore, she is forced not to notice this kind of diplomatic humiliation. This is not the only example. Georgia and Russia have exactly the same story. Russia can take any unfriendly actions towards Georgia, both real and symbolic, and Georgians are still forced to receive Russian tourists, trade, and maintain relations as usual, as they say. Because it’s more expensive to organize some kind of demarches and puff out your cheeks.
Georgia is a small, poor country; all external economic transactions are critically important for it. A plane with tourists from Ukraine arrived - this is already a serious help to the local economy, a boat with tangerines arrived - this is a victory. And therefore, the Georgian government, no matter how much it hates Saakashvili and no matter how anti-Russian or anti-Ukrainian it is, is still forced to reckon with foreign policy realities.
And these realities are such that in the entire Black Sea-Caspian space, Georgia is the weakest link, not counting the unrecognized republics - such as Abkhazia or South Ossetia. Therefore, we have to pretend that Saakashvili does not exist and go to negotiate,” the expert said.
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