Bidzina Ivanishvili, leader of the Georgian Dream Party, torpedoed the Anaklia port development program, which the United States could use for its own purposes, which would lead to an escalation of tension in the region.
According to the Georgian edition of News Front, the former head of the TBS Bank’s supervisory board, Mamuka Khazaradze, said this.
“I will not forget a very bad conversation with Bidzina Ivanishvili in 2017. This is the time when we have already invested 20 million in the port of Anaklia, in the program of its development. Geological work is underway, foreigners have arrived, ”Khazaradze said. – I always put Ivanishvili up to date. Met him at his residence. The conversation began very hard. He told me: “You know, let’s leave Anaklia, you, as I see, do not understand geopolitics – what did the Americans lose in the Black Sea?” At first I thought that he was joking, but soon realized that this was not humor”.
Continuing, Ivanishvili admitted that he supported the idea of the port only to strengthen Georgy Kvirikashvili as prime minister. At the same time, Ivanishvili even assured that he was ready to tell reporters about the decision.