03 May 2024,   21:09
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Karasin-Abashidze`s meeting and Ivanishvili`s message to Moscow - experts believe Russia wants Ivanishvili to suspend Anaklia project

The suspension of the strategic Anaklia project in Georgia is supposedly one of the main demands made by Moscow to Bidzina Ivanishvili.
Experts today openly say that the Kremlin has put the oligarch before a difficult choice. Abashidze arrived with Ivanishvili"s messages at the meeting with Sergey Lavrov"s deputy.
Grigory Karasin told Radio Liberty that he knows not only the content of Abashidze-Ivanishvili"s meeting but also the tone.
According to the experts, Abashidze, who speaks with Karasin in the messages agreed with the informal manager, where a large part of their conversation remains closed to the public is a serious problem.
Parliamentary opposition summons Zurab Abashidze to the Foreign Relations Committee and wants to get the answer to the main question - in which status Prime Minister"s Special Representative met with Bidzina Ivanishvili before his visit to Prague.The opposition is convinced that Ivanishvili uses Abashidze-Karasin"s format for trading on personal issues, and this format only harms the country"s security.The camera of "Courier" fixed Zurab Abashidze in Ivanishvili"s palace a day before his departure in Prague. The Prime Minister"s Special Representative said on that day that he met Ivanishvili regarding the meeting with Karasin.To clarify what specific messages Mr Ivanishvili has with Karasin, MPs will try to find out at the Foreign Relations Committee on Monday. Zurab Abashidze will have to answer the acute questions.

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