"Not funding the media leads to potentially closing down the channels and is the answer to the pro-Western society that is already dying"

"Not funding the media leads to the closing of the channels, and this is the answer to the pro-Western society, which is already dying" - this is how Nika Gvaramia, CEO of the "Mtavari Channel" addresses the international partners from his court session.

I also want to say definitely, our international friends are here, foreign friends who are not only the main allies of our country, but who hold the main recipe on exactly how to help us. We talk that the decision is here and so on, yes, it is true, but I wouldn't say thay there are decisions that we cannot make - we do not have the strength to make them. Unfortunate as it may be. Unfortunately, this is the result of our decisions, and unfortunately, it is also sometimes the result of our Western family being silent or saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. I don't really want to say that they are in debt to us, but the civilized world, the liberal democracies really have a positive obligation to somehow save the nations in need. When a stronger force confronts them, I mean, first of all, Russia, of course.

And also, I want to say, again in the "Mtavari" context. Here is the Caucasus, and I want to greet my close friends and Mr. Dato [Akubardia] first. A man who has never been in any government, but has never bitterly opposed any government. To me, that's the media's formula to be honest. I don't like to talk about objective and subjective media. It just doesn't exist. The formula of the media is to always be a critic of the government, but do not invent an excuse for criticism. Dato is a symbol of this, I want to say. Although we have media that are always on the side of the government, this really needs to be managed. And they will always be on the side of the government, which is the most important thing.

Therefore, I definitely want to tell my allies that in the situation when the first anti-Western force in the country is in power, not in the coalition, but directly in the government, this power is even more pronounced, this is crystal clear, when this power has emphatically advertised that they on PosTV, and don't you know why they advertise that they have a television?! With this, they told us that this is the governmental power, and in the future it will be the governmental power, because the governmental power must have television. This is true in this country. It has been like this for decades.

In the situation when this happens, and at the same time the largest, I mean in terms of rating, the pro-Western force is dying, in this situation, the refusal to grant funding to this force, I will not name organizations now, from the side of the Western owner, and for the "Caucasus", which simply does not need anything special, Opting out potentially results in the closure of these channels. This is the answer for the pro-Western Georgian society, whether we like it or not, it is the way it is. And it is not a symmetrical answer for these anti-Western forces, if they publish something random and then counter-statements are spread, this is not a symmetrical answer. A symmetrical answer is the strengthening of pro-Western forces, Nika Gvaramia said.