{"id":39303,"date":"2026-03-13T10:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/39303\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:48:11","slug":"papuashvili-armenia-eu-relations-are-separate-issue-brussels-itself-disrupted-ties-with-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/39303\/","title":{"rendered":"Papuashvili: Armenia-EU relations are separate issue; Brussels itself disrupted ties with Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili said that statements by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan regarding Georgia concern Armenia\u2019s relations with the European Union and do not reflect Georgia\u2019s position.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/advert.georgiatoday.ge\/www\/delivery\/ck.php?n=abcebd72&amp;cb=INSERT_RANDOM_NUMBER_HERE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773398891_427_avw.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Papuashvili made the remarks during a briefing while commenting on Pashinyan\u2019s speech in the European Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Pashinyan is the Prime Minister of Armenia. He was speaking from the perspective of Armenia\u2019s interests as a representative of his country\u2019s government. We speak about the interests of our own country,\u201d Papuashvili said.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that the issue raised by the Armenian prime minister relates specifically to relations between Armenia and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis concerns Armenia\u2013EU relations. We have our own relations with the European Union,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Papuashvili also claimed that it was the EU that disrupted relations with Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe European Union itself, unilaterally and without provocation, hindered Georgia\u2013EU relations. We cannot fix what they have broken,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Parliament Speaker added that Pashinyan\u2019s message should be viewed in the context of Armenia\u2019s European integration ambitions and its dialogue with Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>He also noted that the Georgian government has already communicated to Brussels what steps it believes are necessary to restore proper relations between Georgia and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already told Brussels what they need to do in order to restore proper relations with Georgia,\u201d Papuashvili said.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came after Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, speaking in the European Parliament a day earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/georgiatoday.ge\/armenian-pm-frozen-eu-georgia-political-dialogue-biggest-obstacle-to-armenias-eu-integration\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stated<\/a> that one of the biggest obstacles on Armenia\u2019s path toward European integration is the currently frozen dialogue between the European Union and Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Image: Shalva Papuashvili. Source: 1TV<\/p>\n<p>Related story: <a href=\"https:\/\/georgiatoday.ge\/armenian-pm-frozen-eu-georgia-political-dialogue-biggest-obstacle-to-armenias-eu-integration\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Armenian PM: Frozen EU\u2013Georgia political dialogue biggest obstacle to Armenia\u2019s EU integration<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili said that statements by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan regarding Georgia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[22386,211,210,8839,8294],"class_list":["post-39303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-armenia-eu-relations","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-nikol-pashinyan","tag-shalva-papuashvili"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116221477408362334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}