Elina Valtonen, the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Finnish Foreign Minister, invites Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze to Finland.
“Prime Minister Kobakhidze, The Georgian future is only for the Georgian people to decide. The same applies to every OSCE participating state. For people to be able to exercise this right, they need freedom of speech and free and fair elections with political alternatives to choose from,” Elina Valtonen writes on X.
In addition, Valtonen cites two articles of the Helsinki Final Act (1975) as an example.
“Helsinki Final Act (1975):
· [Participating states] commit to promote and encourage the effective exercise of civil, political, economic, social, cultural, and other rights and freedoms for all individuals.
· They affirm that these rights and freedoms derive from the inherent dignity of the human person and are essential to the development of free and democratic societies.
In this spirit, as Chair of the OSCE and 50 years since the signing of this document, I invite you to come to Finland, meet the free press and observe any demonstration of your liking.
· Sorry I had to cancel our meeting in Tbilisi because of clashing schedules,” the Finnish Foreign Minister addresses Irakli Kobakhidze.
Elina Valtonen to Irakli Kobakhidze: I invite you to come to Finland, meet the free press and observe any demonstration of your liking – sorry I had to cancel our meeting in Tbilisi because of clashing schedules
