The management of Lisbon's TIARA hotel denied claims that the Georgian delegation to the recent NATO summit held a party with around 80 prostitutes during their stay, the Georgian InterpressNews agency said on Thursday.
"I am the general manager; I live in the hotel and am here 24 hours a day. I can assure you that nothing happened," IntepressNews quoted the hotel's manager as saying.
The allegations were first made by Portuguese tabloid Correio da Manha, although the name of the hotel, allegedly one of Lisbon's most expensive, was not known until Thursday.
The paper also said that several members of the Armenian delegation to the summit joined the party, which was broken up when French President Nicolas Sarkozy complained to the hotel's management.
Police were called to the hotel and one of the female guests was recognized as a local prostitute, the paper said.
Georgian media earlier reported that a source in Moscow claimed the story was paid for by Russia.
However, Correio da Manha's Deputy Director Armando Esteves Pereira told InterpressNews that his publication received the information directly from police officers who had been overseeing the safety of the delegation.
Vice Speaker of the Georgian parliament Levan Vepkhvadze, who did not attend the Lisbon summit, called for an investigation into the scandal at a parliamentary session on Wednesday.
TBILISI, November 25 (RIA Novosti)
