Georgia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the British Ambassador to Tbilisi, Gareth Ward, after the United Kingdom imposed sanctions on the head of the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs, Vakhtang Gomelauri, and other high-ranking officials. This is reported by the First channel of the Georgian public broadcaster.
According to the TV channel, the ambassador has already arrived at the Georgian MFA building, but he did not make any comments to the media. The representatives of the Georgian MFA are talking with the diplomat.
On Thursday, Great Britain included Georgian Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri, his deputy Alexander Darakhvelidze and the head of the Tbilisi Police Department Sulkhan Tamazashvili in the list of sanctions.
In the justification of the measures taken, it is said that the leadership of Georgia's law enforcement agencies "bears responsibility for actions equivalent to the violation of human rights." It is believed that during protests in the country, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia allowed "disproportionate use of violence by the police against the demonstrators", and the Georgian police attacked opposition leaders and journalists.
