Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili responded to U.S. Ambassador Kelly Degnan, about the "renegades", he says that if the diplomat has any questions, she can meet with them and ask them himself:
"I don't understand what the point of bringing the Georgian Dream into this is. If there are certain questions about the statements of our former colleagues, the ambassador is free to meet with them, and if they have any questions, they can talk. They are not members of the Georgian Dream team, so we cannot be responsible for their position. If there is a question, it should be addressed to them, we are not the addressee," Papuashvili says.
According to the U.S. ambassador, there are questions in Washington regarding the motives behind the anti-American statements made by the renegades and the spread of Russian disinformation, and they are also puzzled why the Dream government is not clearly distancing itself from these statements .