Washington Post editorial staff has responded on the allegations of Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili by publishing an article entitled `Georgia`s PM blasts The Washington Post.
In an e-mail to POLITICO, Washington Post spokesperson Kris Coratti wrote that she spoke with the editorial team and was told: We have had no recent contact with President Saakashvili and he had no involvement with our editorial. We arranged to meet with the Georgian Foreign Minister during her visit to Washington this week, at her request, before the editorial`s publication.
The Post on Tuesday published an editorial, "Georgia`s government takes a wrong turn," that blasted Ivanishvili for bringing "criminal charges against more than 20 senior officials of the previous administration, including the former ministers of defense and interior and the armed forces chief of staff."
Ivanishvili has accused the Post of working with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on the editorial.
"It is amazing and I will find out how [Saakashvili] managed that such an editorial appeared [in the Washington Post]. Our president has had only one thing organized well. This is what he is currently engaged in. This is all he got. He does lobbying as much as he can. He has this system set well," he said Wednesday during a press conference in Tbilisi.
