“The President has not gone to the US for dinner, he went there for business,” Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said in response to a question from journalists regarding the 2025 transatlantic dinner hosted by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New York, which Mikheil Kavelashvili did not attend.
As Papuashvili noted, “the President of Georgia has his own schedule, he was invited to the US President’s reception. He had the opportunity, among other things, to have a conversation with him in a format where no photos are taken.”
“There was an opportunity to talk. This is important for us. There was an important conversation between them. Joe Wilson was among them at the reception organized by the US President. You can ask and find out what was going on.
[Regarding the transatlantic dinner] The President has not gone to the US for dinner, he went there for business. The US is led by the US President. The President of Georgia was present at the US President’s reception, he had an opportunity to talk. This is important for us,” said Shalva Papuashvili.
For information, Marco Rubio hosted the 2025 transatlantic dinner in New York. According to information released by the US State Department, the dinner was attended by the foreign ministers of the European Union and NATO member states, the NATO Secretary General, the European Union High Representative, as well as the foreign ministers of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Switzerland, and Ukraine.
Shalva Papuashvili: The President was invited to Donald Trump’s reception, had the opportunity to talk to him in a format where no photos are taken – as for the transatlantic dinner, the President has not gone to the US for dinner, he went there for business
