US Ambassador: GD Declined to Discuss Bilateral Strategic Partnership at Highest Level

>In a statement issued on May 2, the U.S. Amb. Robin Dunnigan reveals that the U.S. side recently “invited senior members of the Georgian Government to engage directly with the most senior leaders in the United States to discuss our strategic partnership and any concerns with U.S. assistance “but, she notes “unfortunately, the Georgian side chose not to accept this invitation.” U.S. Ambassador expresses “deep concern” over decisions made in recent weeks by the Georgian government that have “moved the country away from its Euro-Atlantic future.”

GD has survived this long largely by *not* asking their voters to choose between the West and Russia. Their angle was always to be a dynamic if corrupt polity and play ball with everyone in the region. Openly antagonising the US and EU puts an end to that – you now have to choose if you want GD, or a government that will talk to the West.

Doing this right before the elections is almost incomprehensibly stupid.