Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili apologizes to international community for President Mikheil Saakashvili’s “recent irresponsible statements”, prime-news.ge reported.

“The government of Georgia continues its efforts for speeding up the country’s European and Euro-Atlantic integration, for the restoration of its territorial integrity and providing peace in the region. Our task is to fulfill honestly the obligations towards the European Union and the NATO, reinforce relations with our friends, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey and Ukraine and thus put forth steps for normalizing relations with Russia.

In addition, the recent irresponsible statements and activities of the president run counter to the course of the Georgian government to the aforementioned directions, tarnish the country’s international prestige and create more domestic and foreign problems to the new government. We are sincerely sorry that the heads of the friend governments were put in inconvenient situation as well as the representatives of the international organizations, for which I apologize to them on behalf of Georgia’s government,” Georgian Prime Minister's statement released on Monday, March 4 reads.