{"id":124695,"date":"2025-09-29T23:55:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tiflisnews.ge\/?p=124695"},"modified":"2025-09-29T23:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:55:16","slug":"pm-on-moldovas-elections-hard-to-congratulate-while-country-remains-in-cis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiflisnews.ge\/en\/pm-on-moldovas-elections-hard-to-congratulate-while-country-remains-in-cis\/","title":{"rendered":"PM on Moldova\u2019s Elections: Hard to congratulate while country remains in CIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze stated that it is difficult to congratulate Moldova on its recent elections while the country remains a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question on whether he intends to congratulate Maia Sandu on her electoral victory, Kobakhidze said the ruling party will wait until Moldova leaves the CIS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as Moldova remains a member of the CIS, it will be difficult for us to congratulate. We will wait until Moldova leaves the CIS, and then we will see, we will reconsider the issue of congratulations,\u201d the Prime Minister noted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze stated that it is difficult to congratulate Moldova on its recent elections while the country remains a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Responding to a question on whether he intends to congratulate Maia Sandu on her electoral victory, Kobakhidze said the ruling party will wait until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169,167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-of-the-day","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PM on Moldova\u2019s Elections: Hard to congratulate while country remains in CIS - TiflisNews.ge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tiflisnews.ge\/en\/pm-on-moldovas-elections-hard-to-congratulate-while-country-remains-in-cis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PM on Moldova\u2019s Elections: Hard to congratulate while country remains in CIS - TiflisNews.ge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze stated that it is difficult to congratulate Moldova on its recent elections while the country remains a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). 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