Georgia's New President: no sense to join EU at expense of rejecting own values

There is no sense for Georgia to join any organizations at the expense of rejecting its values and traditions, Georgian President-elect Mikhail Kavelashvili said.

"If we don’t have our values, mentality, culture, language, faith, love for the motherland, what is the sense in joining any organization?" Mikhail Kavelashvili said.

"We want to be a member of the European Union as we are. We don’t reject integration," the president-elect noted.

According to him, Tbilisi is open to a discussion on any topic, but the West shows no willingness to do that, being limited to criticism only.