Last year, as part of a certain program, I was in Strasbourg, and a meeting with Tamar was also scheduled. When a European diplomat told her, “A guest from Georgia is arriving tomorrow, and a meeting with you is planned…” —

When the diplomat mentioned my name and surname, Tamar’s reaction was: “She’s not Georgian.”
Apparently, everyone in the program was confused and re-checked my documents — they were in shock.
They ended up calling the incident “a serious incident.”
When I first heard about this “incident,” I thought it was an accident.
Naturally, she never met with me.

She lived and worked in the heart of Europe.

— Samira Bayramova, on the newly appointed Georgian ambassador in U.S.