Vato Shakarishvili, “Conservative movement - Georgia Above All”, called on the owners of the areas where the festival is planned within the framework of Pride Week, not to allow the event to take place.

“The society will take a strong and clear position in regard to event in the framework of the Pride Week, which is to be held on July 8 near Lisi Lake. We will do everything to prevent, in a peaceful manner, this unrestrained Sodom and Gomorrah attempt near Lake Lisi. We will not allow such a large-scale so-called Pride Festival to be held in front of our children and society.

I received information about the owner of the land where the festival is being held, which is the Tbilisi Hippodrome Service company. I communicated with some of the owners, they had no information about the Pride Week taking place there.

If the landowners don’t prevent the festival from taking place on their land, a large part of the community will gather there and do everything in a peaceful way so that the precedent of holding an LGBT festival in a public space never happens”, - said Vato Shakarishvili.