Salome Zurabishvili does not share the content of the statement released by 13 NGOs. The presidential candidate refrained from commenting on the question by Rustavi 2 journalist. She only mentioned that she knows the content of the statement and disagrees with it. Zurabishvili says she does not make xenophobic statements.

The third sector representatives called dangerous and anti-state the statement made by a presidential candidate in Ninotsminda in which she accused the third president of Georgia of lobbying ethnic Turks .

"What they say I"ve read and you do not need to repeat it. You make statements. I"ll answer you where it is needed ... Do you teach me when I should answer you? "= said Salome Zurabishvili.

According to NGOs, Zourabichvili"s statements encourage hatred, contradict the principles of liberal democracy and equality, which is an attempt to artificially bring historical conflict into political reality.

The third sector calls on Salome Zurabishvili to refrain from xenophobic statements.