Prime Minister of Georgia BidzinaIvanishvili said during the press conference after the meeting with Rasmussen in Brussels on Wednesday that NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen refuses to establish a joint commission with Georgia to investigate events in the country.
“Both sides expressed regret in connection with the events that took place in Georgia. I am referring to the arrests that took place. I offered the Secretary-General to participate in the process to make everything to be transparent and understandable to all, but Rasmussen did not consider it necessary,” said Ivanishvili.
Azerbaijani sources report that the NATO Secretary General, speaking at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Prague expressed concern about the politicization of the judicial process in Georgia.
“I support the elections in Georgia and the peaceful transfer of power, but I will not deny that I am very concerned about what is happening, especially the arrest of political opponents. It is unacceptable that trials were politically motivated,” he said.
Recall that former Georgian Interior and Defence Minister BachoAkhalaia, former chief of joint staff of Georgian armed forces GiorgiKalandadze and brigade commander ZurabShamatava are all accused of mistreating soldiers.
They are charged under part 3 of Article 333 of the Criminal Code of Georgia but all three detainees deny the charges.
