Addition to previous report
Big business in Georgia support the protesters against the rejection of European integration.
Two of the country's largest banks - Bank of Georgia and TBC Bank, telecom operators Magticom and Silknet, developer ORBI Group, as well as the country's largest car dealer Tegeta - opposed the government's decision to suspend European integration and supported the protesters.
"The European and Euro-Atlantic future of Georgia is the historical choice of the absolute majority of our people, which is enshrined in Article 78 of the Constitution of Georgia. We are firmly convinced that the temporary suspension of European integration is contrary to the will of the Georgian people and the Constitution of Georgia. TBC has always been and remains an unconditional supporter of Georgia's European and Euro-Atlantic integration," TBC Bank said in a statement.
Magticom condemned the actions of the security forces to disperse the protesters, and Tegeta noted that the current crisis situation is detrimental to the future of the country and threatens "development and common goals."
According to Paper Katruli, Georgian ambassadors in different countries are resigning en masse due to the actions of the authorities. Diplomats in the United States, the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Italy and Lithuania left their posts. One of the first to resign was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to Bulgaria Otar Berdzenishvili.
"I condemn any violence and leave the post of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Kingdom of the Netherlands," said Ambassador to the Netherlands David Solomonia.
According to Newsgeorgia, several dozen employees of the Georgian Defense Ministry, following the employees of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expressed their commitment to the course of joining the EU and NATO. At the moment, the statement has been signed by 43 people - and they are employees of the departments of the Ministry of Defense of Georgia.
Some employees of the Constitutional Court of Georgia also called on the authorities to reconsider the decision to freeze negotiations on joining the European Union. They believe that this decision of the government "ignores the constitutional will of the citizens of Georgia" and contradicts the article of the basic law, according to which the constitutional bodies must take all measures to ensure Georgia's full integration into the EU and NATO.
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