{"id":101053,"date":"2024-10-15T13:17:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T09:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=101053"},"modified":"2024-10-15T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T10:02:41","slug":"ambassador-the-uk-has-decided-to-freeze-the-annual-high-level-wardrop-dialogue-between-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/politics\/101053\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador: The UK has decided to freeze the annual high-level \u2018Wardrop Dialogue\u2019 between ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the first time in 10 years, we on the British side have decided to freeze the annual high-level ‘Wardrop Dialogue’ between ministers. This is the first time since the dialogue format was established. We also canceled the planned high-level talks between the defense staff and suspended the new cyber security program, U.K. Ambassador Gareth Ward said in an interview with InterpressNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ambassador expressed hope that after the elections the Georgian government will return to the pro-Western course and trust between London and Tbilisi will be restored.<\/p>\n

“I had expected that we would work together to strengthen Georgia’s resilience and our common prosperity, but over the past year the Georgian government has chosen a different course, and during my first months in Tbilisi I had to make clear our concerns about the decline of democracy and anti-Western rhetoric. I hope that the Georgian government will change its approach, which will allow me to regain optimism,” the British diplomat said.<\/p>\n

Ward said that London was concerned when the parliament passed a law restricting the activities of civil society.<\/p>\n

“We were disappointed when the leaders of Georgian Dream began to promote conspiracy theories and make assumptions that Western partners are undermining Georgia,” the diplomat said.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time in 10 years, we on the British side have decided to freeze the annual high-level ‘Wardrop Dialogue’ between ministers. This is the first time since the dialogue format was established. We also canceled the planned high-level talks between the defense staff and suspended the new cyber security program, U.K. Ambassador Gareth […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":101037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,43,97,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-world","category-georgia-en","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}