Yesterday I was in Upper Adjara, where the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia baptised local people, children and adults alike. The Patriarch baptised three times as many people as attended the rally. That too shows where the Georgian people stand. Such a statement made today Speaker of the Georgian Parliament.

“The Georgian people cannot stand with that pseudo-religious sect which is trying to push the Georgian Church out of public life and to bring to power a force that would be directly subordinate to the influence of foreign governments. In short, it is an anti-patriotic, foreign-agent force. Yesterday was the perfect case in point.

In Tbilisi, we saw a few dozen members of a pseudo-religious sect gathered to perform their pseudo-religious ritual once again, and in Upper Adjara, we saw three times as many people gathered in true faith. The people do not side with foreign agents. The people cannot side with those who say Georgia should bow and scrape to foreign governments and serve foreign interests. The people cannot side with a sect that attacks the Georgian Church and sacrifices Georgia’s interests to those of any other country”, - said Shalva Papuashvili.