On July 13, during a briefing at the Government Administration, Irakli Kobakhidze, the Prime Minister of Georgia, stated that cooperation with the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly would continue but stressed that its future quality would depend on the Assembly’s own conduct. According to Kobakhidze, cooperation would be determined by whether the organization continued operating "at the Joe Wilson level" or moved beyond it. "The quality of cooperation will depend on the further activities of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly itself," he stated.

The same day, Kaja Kallas, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, told journalists in Brussels ahead of the EU Foreign Affairs Council that the EU sought to support the Georgian people rather than the Georgian government. Responding to a question from Euroscope, Kallas stated that the implementation of the EU’s Black Sea Strategy was underway and that countries around the Black Sea remained important partners. Referring to Georgia, she noted that the EU had discussed ways to ensure that "the Georgian people do not lose hope in Europe," adding, "We don’t really have connections with the Georgian government and we do not want to support them - we want to support the Georgian people."

Commenting on Kallas’ remarks, Kobakhidze accused the EU’s top diplomat of disregarding Georgia’s sovereignty and the democratic choice of its citizens. Drawing a comparison with Russia’s occupation of Georgian territories, he stated, "There is a country, the Russian Federation, which does not recognize Georgia's sovereignty over 20% of our territories. There is Kaja Kallas, who does not recognize Georgia's sovereignty over 100% of the country's territory." He argued that refusing to recognize the will of the Georgian electorate amounted to rejecting the country’s sovereignty and described such an approach as "a completely shameful attitude."

Kobakhidze further criticized the European Union’s decision not to invite Georgia to a ministerial meeting connected to the Black Sea region, despite describing Georgia as a key transit country linking the region with Europe. He argued that such decisions demonstrated that the European bureaucracy was acting under external influence rather than according to its own strategic interests. According to him, Europe’s declining share of the global economy reflected the consequences of losing policy independence. He also maintained that, amid the loss of access to Russian resources and instability in the Middle East, Georgia remained the EU’s most effective corridor for maintaining ties with the East.

Addressing the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly’s recently adopted resolution on Georgia, Kobakhidze described the document as "absurd" and accused the organization of attempting to facilitate a change of government through "unjust and shameful accusations, sanctions and other levers of pressure and blackmail." He argued that, like other European institutions, the OSCE had become influenced by what he described as the "deep state." Referring to previous statements by US President Donald Trump and former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss regarding the "deep state," Kobakhidze claimed these remarks confirmed the existence of informal oligarchic influence over Western political institutions. He asserted that many European institutions and governments were accountable to these interests rather than to their own voters.

Responding to a question regarding reactions to the court verdict involving Aleko Elisashvili, Kobakhidze criticized both domestic opposition figures and their international partners for failing to condemn what he described as an attempted terrorist act. He stated that solidarity with such actions represented "a completely new peak" reached by "local agents and their patronage outside the country." According to Kobakhidze, failing to distance themselves from an alleged attempt to set fire to the court building demonstrated acceptance of both political and ordinary terrorism. He also accused opposition forces of repeatedly attempting to destabilize the country and promote revolutionary scenarios.

On the same day, Shalva Papuashvili, the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, criticized Kallas’ comments on social media, arguing that her remarks further damaged trust between Georgia and the EU. Papuashvili stated that it was unfortunate that some senior EU officials continued to approach relations with Georgia in a "mentoring tone" rather than engaging in equal dialogue with "the democratically elected government of a sovereign state." According to him, the formula of supporting the Georgian people while refusing to engage with their government implied that Georgians were incapable of freely choosing their own leadership and therefore required external guidance. He described such an attitude as disrespectful and warned that it risked distancing the EU from its image as a peace project.

Papuashvili also linked Kallas’ position to her leadership role within ALDE, noting that Georgia’s opposition party Lelo belonged to the same political family. He argued that unless Kallas distanced herself from what he described as her political partners’ justification of terrorism, her future comments on Georgia would lack credibility.

Speaking separately to journalists, Papuashvili sharply criticized the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, accusing it of abandoning international legal principles. He stated that the Assembly had "trampled international law and the basic principles of the law" and, "like Russia," had become "an underminer for the rules-based international order." According to him, the recently adopted resolution was built on "outright lies" and disinformation allegedly promoted by figures including Joe Wilson and other European politicians critical of Georgia.

Papuashvili also described Kallas’ statement as "anti-democratic," arguing that it suggested the Georgian people lacked the ability to elect their own government. He stated that anyone claiming to support the Georgian people while rejecting their elected government was effectively denying democratic principles and Georgia’s sovereignty. According to Papuashvili, such rhetoric reflected a misunderstanding of democracy and contributed to what he described as the EU’s "reckless foreign policy." He added that whenever Brussels attacked the Georgian people or their elected government, Tbilisi would provide "an adequate response."

Also commenting on Kallas’ remarks, Maka Botchorishvili, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, stated that it was regrettable for the EU’s chief diplomat to publicly declare unwillingness to cooperate with a government elected through the democratic will of the Georgian people while simultaneously claiming to support those same citizens. Botchorishvili emphasized that genuine partnership required dialogue rather than distancing and reaffirmed Georgia’s commitment to cooperation with the EU based on mutual respect and understanding. At the same time, she stressed that Georgia could not remain silent when the democratic choice of its voters was disregarded, stating that "Democracy means respecting the decision of the voters – not only when it is politically convenient."