ArmInfo. On January 19, President Salome Zurabishvili, in an interview with Fox News, called on U.S. President Donald Trump to remind his Russian counterpart that the Caucasus is "the interest of the Western countries."
When asked what she would like President Trump to convey to Russian President Putin during his call or a meeting she said: "Hands off Georgia! Hands off the Caucasus! It cannot become again a region dominated by Russia. Because that's the interest of the Western countries..." She invoked the region's history as a meeting place of civilizations and highlighted that Georgia is "the country in which society is a vibrant civil society that wants to be part of the community of values that is represented by Europe and the U.S."
Asked by the host about what's the risk of Georgian government aligning with Russia, China and Iran Salome Zurabishvili said: "It's about losing the strategic interest of America in this central region of the Caucasus," adding that this would be detrimental for the US interests in the larger Black Sea region.