In an interview with Bloomberg, Salome Zourabichvili, the President of Georgia, said nobody should imagine this conflict being settled without Russia departing from all the seized areas. 

"The moment has arrived for Europe to take a strategic decision," President Zourabichvili said when discussing the nation's EU integration. Zourabichvili told the European allies, "You have to give us candidate status. We are not perfect. I know there are things we haven't been doing, but I think that despite all that, we need to go on." She said that Georgia could not afford another setback in its quest to become an EU candidate since doing so would give Russia more leverage by portraying Georgia as a gray area for its aspirations.

In response to appeals from a segment of the Georgian population for the pardon of former President Mikheil Saakashvili, President Zourabichvili said: "I do not believe that an individual case will define our European destiny." 

President Zourabichvili spoke on Russia's occupation of Georgian territory and said that as part of a future peace agreement to stop the Kremlin's war in Ukraine, Russia should be forced to abandon its almost 15-year-long occupation of Georgia. Additionally, she highlighted that if it does not stipulate that Russia must completely withdraw as part of the terms of capitulation, the western world will make another major error — as big as 2008 [in Georgia] and 2014 [in Crimea].

About President Putin's inevitable loss in the conflict in Ukraine, President Zourabichvili emphasized that Russia has already essentially lost the battles, if not the war. The president reaffirmed her support for Ukraine and noted that Georgians generally agree with her position. She did add that given Georgia's status as a nation partially occupied by Russia, the authorities needed to be extra careful.