ZELENSKIY TELLS GEORGIAN PRESIDENT UKRAINE IS “WITH GEORGIAN PEOPLE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili met on Saturday ahead of the re-opening of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Zelensky told Zourabichvili Ukraine supported Georgia and the path its people chose towards EU and NATO membership.
Zelenskiy on Thursday (December 5) imposed sanctions on Georgian former Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili and some members of Georgia’s government.
Ivanishvili, the billionaire founder of the governing Georgian Dream party, is widely seen as the most influential figure in Georgian politics.
Tensions have been rising between Georgia’s governing party and opponents who say the South Caucasus country is pursuing increasingly authoritarian, anti-Western and pro-Russian policies.
Zelenskiy and Zourabichvili are in Paris to attend the re-opening of centuries-old Paris landmark Notre-Dame Cathedral five-and-a-half years after a devastating fire destroyed its spire and roof and brought the entire Gothic masterpiece within minutes of collapsing
The 860-year-old medieval building has been meticulously restored, with a new spire and rib vaulting, its flying buttresses and carved stone gargoyles returned to their past glory and the white stone and gold decorations.
