No one can force Georgia"s government, at any cost of sanctions, to curse the country into a devastating war, reads the statement of the Georgian Dream Political Council.

"The formal basis for sanctions imposed by specific states is completely unserious, and this requires little evidence. Bidzina Ivanishvili is being sanctioned for replacing bloody authoritarianism in Georgia with democratic governance, for ending the systematic practices of torturing and killing people, extorting businesses, seizing media, and rigging elections, for increasing the country’s economy from 28 billion to 90 billion, and for bringing 12 years of uninterrupted peace to Georgia.

Vakhtang Gomelauri and heroic police officers, including those who fought in the 2008 war, are being sanctioned because they effectively prevented three violent attempts to overthrow the government in the last two years and did so in such a way that not only was there no loss of life, but not even a single person’s health was affected", - reads the statement of the Political Council.