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Kobakhidze Holds Briefing to Defend Signing of 1783 Treaty of Georgievsk, Comments on Garibashvili’s Statement
By Civil.ge
Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze held a briefing on August 18 to defend King Erekle II’s decision to sign the Treaty of Georgievsk with the Russian Empire in 1783, calling it the “only correct and unavoidable decision” in light of Georgia’s “national interests” at the time. Kobakhidze opened the briefing with a brief lecture …