"We must not be the only country in the world that sometimes argues with the European Parliament, sometimes with ambassadors" | Salome Zurabishvili

"We can't be the only country in the world that sometimes argues with the European Parliament, sometimes with the American ambassador, sometimes with other individual ambassadors," Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said on the public broadcaster.

She also says she will do everything to eliminate polarization.

I will do everything I can and will do to eliminate polarization. It's not polarizing, it's protecting Georgia's reputation. We shouldn't be the only country in the world that argues in that tone sometimes with the European Parliament, sometimes with the American ambassador, sometimes with individual ambassadors.

I've had 40 years of diplomatic experience, I've never seen rules like this. I've never seen a Prime Minister write, first of all, as if we don't understand anything about institutions, write to the chairman of the commission to disassociate from the European Parliament. When it is already disassociated, because the European Council used different terminology and did not pass all the terms that went into the resolution from the European Parliament.

There are some things in diplomacy, first of all the relationship between the institutions, one is the Commission, which will not comment and will not be separated from the European Parliament. You have to know that these are two separate, independent institutions respecting each other, which I take it we are not used to. Positions should be voiced in diplomatic terms, when there are issues that need to be resolved. Maybe one on one," says Salome Zurabishvili.