The Vice President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress has given an indignant refutation of the information on his alleged conversation with the Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili on the decision of the UN General Assembly to give the Palestinian Autonomy non-member observer status, which has spread in Israeli media.

The impetus for the various rumor in the press was an article by Pamela Geller, published in the Internet magazine American Thinker, USA, on 16. 12. 2012. The article, in particular, states that Georgia's Prime Minister replied to Miriliashvili's request not to vote in favor of the UN resolution that he had been recommended by Richard Norland, the US Ambassador to Georgia, to support this resolution.

The article reads, “This information comes from Gabriel M. Mirilashvili, a prominent businessman and corporation owner in Georgia, who is Vice-President of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress and head of the World Congress of Georgian Jews. Mirilashvili says that he heard this from Ivanishvili himself, and that there exists an official record of the conversation between Norland and Ivanishvili.”

The EAJC Vice President reacted immediately with a decisive refutation, sending a letter to the Izrus news portal. Mirilashvili does not deny that he met with Ivanishvili. “We discussed humanitarian, economic, and historical aspects of interaction between our two countries. Questions about the vote and any insinuations surrounding it were supposed to be discussed and decided through diplomatic channels, as had probably been the case in reality. We did not have anything to do with these matters,” his letter reads.

An informational game has made a chess pawn out of a well-known and respected person – Euro-Asian Jewish Congress Vice President Gabriel Miriliashvili. Having no desire to foster mistrust towards everything written about the EAJC and its leaders, we would like to remind our readers that any information published by untrustworthy articles or that is ordered to be written by no less untrustworthy politicians needs to be checked for truthfulness.