The Georgia text went through as the five-group joint motion RC-B10-0443/2026, now P10_TA(2026)0336, after the plenary rejected two amendments from the Europe of Sovereign Nations group to paragraph 42 and recital C, the voting record shows. The Azerbaijan text passed as the six-group motion RC-B10-0438/2026, now P10_TA(2026)0337, in the roll-call Renew had asked for. A third resolution of the same hour, on the 2026 elections to the Russian State Duma, passed by 482 to 41 with 39 abstentions.
The adopted Georgia text keeps the lines CAW reported on Thursday: sanctions on Bidzina Ivanishvili, Irakli Kobakhidze, Shalva Papuashvili and Kakha Kaladze, the release of Elene Khoshtaria, Mzia Amaglobeli, Mikheil Saakashvili, Giorgi Baramidze and Nika Melia, and a last paragraph addressed to the self-appointed authorities of Georgia. The lawsuit it condemns was filed anew by Georgian Dream at the Constitutional Court on 24 September against the opposition parties and has sat with the court’s plenum since Tuesday, as CAW reported. Its Azerbaijan twin counts over 300 political prisoners, names Ali Karimli, Anar Mammadli and Anar Abdullayev, and asks the member states to prepare measures under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime.
Baku’s parliament answered at 17:30 local time through its press department, in a statement APA printed in full. The Milli Majlis assesses the resolution as a biased political action against the country and firmly rejects accusations built on false and fabricated information, it says, dating the Parliament’s confrontational line to the period after the Second Karabakh War. It is surprising that the European Parliament does not give up its attempts to act as a supranational judge, the statement says, and all of this shows that Azerbaijanophobic, Turkophobic and Islamophobic sentiment prevails in the organisation.
The Baku statement points at the corruption investigations in the European Parliament’s own ranks, at police violence and limits on peaceful assembly in EU states, at the moment chosen while the peace agenda with Armenia moves forward, and at the contradiction between the European Parliament’s call to restore cooperation with the Milli Majlis and its practice of adopting documents that cause sharp inter-parliamentary disputes. The Milli Majlis says it cannot follow the logic that calls persons convicted by courts for concrete crimes political prisoners, and that no force can turn Azerbaijan from the path of democratic development. By Friday morning the parliament’s statement was the only official answer APA had carried.
It is surprising that the European Parliament does not give up its attempts to act as a supranational judge, the statement says, and all of this shows that Azerbaijanophobic, Turkophobic and Islamophobic sentiment prevails in the organisation.
In Tbilisi the ruling party’s answer came from Kadagishvili. “These are not resolutions based on justice. These are resolutions that serve solely to satisfy narrow political interests,” the Georgian Dream MP said, as InterPressNews carried it at 16:07, adding that “it is not up to individual Members of the European Parliament to decide whether or not Georgia should have laws and a constitution”.
The resolutions are an act of revenge by defeated foreign and domestic political actors, he said, and if anyone who storms state institutions or police officers is a political prisoner then France, with thousands of such people in its recent protests, acquired thousands of political prisoners a few days ago without a resolution. Georgian Dream’s Archil Gorduladze had said at 14:00, before the result was in, that the European Parliament has fired nine times with its baseless resolutions and missed every time. Kobakhidze’s printed words of Thursday were about economic growth and Ivanishvili, by Business Media’s stamps of 13:30 to 15:00, and neither he nor Papuashvili had a line on the vote on InterPressNews by Friday morning.
The opposition took the vote as theirs. Salome Samadashvili said Papuashvili in particular deserved congratulations on the day’s resolution, and Grigol Gegelia called the government a regime of lost prospects whose situation the resolution describes best, by InterPressNews’s Georgian service at 16:39 and 15:22. A party ban may become the final trigger for sanctions or financial steps from an EU that had tried not to burn bridges, Nikoloz Khatiashvili told the same service at 21:58.
Marta Kos chose a video address released by the EU delegation that evening to say that whatever challenge lies ahead, the EU still believes in Georgia’s European future, InterPressNews reported at 19:11. Her Wednesday line to the Foreign Affairs Committee stands as the limit: the Commission can only do as much as the member states are willing to, and Georgia comes up at the Foreign Affairs Council next week, where sanctions need every member state’s consent.
The Russian foreign ministry’s word of the evening was about Kaladze. Non-regional players are trying to draw Georgia into dangerous adventures of a Russophobic character, the ministry said of the Tbilisi mayor’s remark that Georgia will not become a second front, praising the capital’s pragmatism, by Newsgeorgia at 22:33.
Washington added a letter of its own on Azerbaijan. Twenty-six senators and 75 representatives asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio to withhold US military assistance to Azerbaijan unless Baku releases the Armenian detainees, held for a thousand days by 23 June 2026 in the letter’s words, and withdraws its forces from sovereign Armenian land, Armenpress reported at 16:42 from the Armenian National Committee of America, which backed the letter. Senators Gary Peters and Adam Schiff and Representatives Gus Bilirakis and Frank Pallone led it, Chuck Schumer signed, and it answers the administration’s extension of the Section 907 waiver, first granted in August 2025 after the White House summit of Pashinyan and Aliyev and notified to Congress in July 2026.
The European Parliament’s resolutions bind no government, and the Council meets on Georgia next week with the Commission’s limit already stated. Baku’s reply is the longer text of the two, and its closing line, that no force can turn Azerbaijan from its path, was written on the day Aliyev sat at the Avaza summit in Turkmenistan beside five Central Asian presidents, none of whom Strasbourg had on its order paper.