Maria Zakharova said, \u201cwe treat Georgia as a sovereign state, which has also gone through a very difficult and complicated path.\u201d<\/p>\n
The MID spox said the West brought \u201cthe destructive ideology\u201d into Georgia and interfered with its domestic affairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe West not only interfered in the affairs of this country but tried to model Georgian and the whole region development according to their own scenario.\u201d<\/p>\n
But she seemingly implied that unlike in the past, Georgia is nowadays \u201cforming its sovereign policy\u201d to define ways of its development.<\/p>\n
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She said this \u201ctrue sovereignty\u201d \u2013 irrespective of whether someone agrees or not with this or that viewpoint \u2014 was important against the current international background.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is very important that every state today pursues a sovereign foreign policy because this\u2026 is today a check on whether the state, the country, the people are sovereign, or is it all a fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zakharova continued: \u201cThis is the most important moment recently when everyone must answer the question: do we dance to someone else\u2019s music or are we truly independent and sovereign, will we always live under oppression\u2026 simply because it is profitable today somewhere over the ocean [meaning the U.S. \u2013 editor<\/em>] to build world economic relations in that way? Or we can protect our internal sovereignty for future development?\u201d<\/p>\nOn Geneva Talks and Cancel Culture<\/h3>\n
Asked to comment on the postponement of Geneva International Discussions by the Co-Chairs amid Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine, Zakharova spoke of the cancel culture and described the move as \u201cchildish.\u201d<\/p>\n
The MID spox implied that the postponement of the discussions was not linked to the differences over some principles or the ineffectiveness of the process, but due to the \u201cWest\u2019s culture of cancellation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know how a child covers face with hands and says, \u2018no one can see me, I\u2019m in the house\u2019\u2026. And now the collective West says \u2014 and we are in the house, it covers its face with its hands, it closes its eyes and thinks that it has canceled somebody in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnder the banners of tolerance, the achievement of peace in the form of its diversity, freedom of speech, and pluralism, all of this has simply curdled into this absolutely pathetic ideology of rejecting anything that does not fit into one\u2019s own view of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of Tangerines and Eucalyptus<\/h3>\n
Zakharova also spoke of her memories and attitudes toward Abkhazia, saying she practically grew up in the region \u2013 a popular Soviet-era coastal destination \u2014 as her parents used to visit it during her childhood.<\/p>\n
\u201cI adore everything related to the nature of Abkhazia, its culture, I basically started to understand and feel the Caucasus from Abkhazia.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI grew up with an understanding and a sense of what the Caucasus is all about after I had been with my parents in Sukhumi and its suburbs,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
Zakharova continued: \u201cOf course, I like most of all this wonderful combination of the sea and eucalyptus\u2026 my favorite smell since childhood. And by the way, for the first time, I saw tangerines bloom, this delicate aroma of tangerine flowers.\u201d<\/p>\n
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