The US threat to sanction the Georgian authorities is unprecedented and laughable

report Mehr News Agency quoted by Rashatodi, Mamuka Medinaradze, the leader of the faction of the ruling party of Georgia called “Georgian Dream” announced that the US government’s threat to sanction the Georgian officials involved in the preparation and approval of the bill “Foreign agents” were involved, it is an unprecedented and funny act.

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken warned last Thursday that Washington would impose visa restrictions on “persons who are responsible or complicit in undermining democracy in Georgia, as well as their family members.” will apply He points to a draft law that requires non-governmental organizations in Georgia to register as foreign agents and agents if they receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad.

Last week, the Office of the President of Georgia announced his veto of the “Foreign Factors” bill. According to this news agency, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said in a statement that he vetoed the bill on “foreign factors” that was approved by the parliament.

He had previously threatened to veto this bill if approved by the parliament of his country.

On Tuesday last week, the Parliament of Georgia passed the controversial bill called “foreign factors”, according to which non-governmental organizations in this country that receive more than 20% of their budget from abroad They must be registered as foreign brokers, approved.

The ruling party of Georgia, which holds the majority of the country’s parliament, had announced that this bill is necessary for the transparency of the activities of non-governmental organizations and to prevent the “influence of foreign factors”. /p>

On the other hand, opponents and western countries consider this bill similar to a law in Russia that helped the government of this country to stop the activities of many non-governmental organizations that part of their budget or the whole It was supplied from outside the borders of Russia.

The approval of this law took place after weeks of strong and widespread protests in Georgia, which were accompanied by clashes between protesters and the police, as well as the arrest of some.

Protests in which tens of thousands of people came to the streets and expressed their anger and dissatisfaction with this bill.

This decision, which was adopted by the ruling party of Georgia called “Georgian Dream” despite the opposition of the president, opponents and civil society, was a controversial bill and led to a deep gap between the involved parties. .

In recent weeks, the streets of Tbilisi witnessed massive and continuous demonstrations by protesters with the slogan “Yes to Europe, no to Russian law”.