Georgia’s Foreign Minister, Maka Botchorishvili, has not been invited to the meeting of foreign ministers of the Black Sea basin countries organized by the European Union. The meeting, scheduled for October 20, 2025, in Luxembourg, will be attended by the foreign ministers of Central Asian and Black Sea countries, in addition to ministers from EU member states. However, no such invitation has been sent to Georgian Foreign Minister Maka Botchorishvili. Tbilisi was asked to be represented only at the ambassadorial level.

The EU's decision to reduce contact with high-ranking Georgian officials is a response by the European Commission to the anti-democratic and anti-Western steps taken by the Georgian Dream. In addition to suspending high-level contacts, the European Commission is also considering suspending visa-free travel in response to a “serious setback” in democracy.

The Georgian Foreign Ministry confirmed that Maka Botchorishvili will not be attending the meeting. According to the ministry’s press service, "the invitation at the Georgian ambassadorial level is unacceptable, and the basis for such an approach is unclear.”

"The invitation at the level of the Georgian ambassador to the planned ministerial meeting by the European Union External Action Service indicates a frivolous attitude on the part of the EU institution. It is a demonstration of a denial of not only geopolitical but also simple geographical reality and is another attempt to use the issue of inviting Georgia to EU events for political speculation and to encourage a radical agenda and polarization in Georgia," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.