‘We won’t allow any self-initiated activity against the state or attempts to discredit our state institutions or Church,’ says Georgia’s president

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, in his annual address, made strong remarks about defending state institutions and the Georgian Orthodox Church.

“We will not allow any self-initiated activity against the state. We will resist any attempt to discredit our state institutions or our Mother Church. We see this on a daily basis, and it was carried out with external funding, with funding hidden from society, for years…

Of course, we have never accepted this—and we never will.

We will firmly resist all attempts to undermine our national sovereignty, to distort the identity of the state, and to impose false values.

We have a country to be proud of and a very dignified state,” Kobakhidze stated.