August 31 is approaching and we also see that the anti-Georgian Dream regime is doing nothing to implement the European Commission’s conclusion, which is necessary to maintain the visa-free regime, Grigol Gegelia, one of the leaders of Lelo – Strong Georgia, stated at the briefing held today.
According to him, the Georgian Dream regime is doing everything to ensure that Georgia does not have functioning institutions, real peace and genuine prosperity.
“Another critical conclusion on the anti-national and anti-European policy of the Georgian Dream – after 51 deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe called on the Council of Europe’s governing body, the Committee of Ministers, to potentially reconsider the issue of Georgia’s membership, if the current authoritarian course is not changed, today we see that an important conclusion of the Council of Europe’s Council of Legal Experts openly states that the so-called “Agents Law” is not in line with the European spirit and contradicts a number of rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights. The conclusion openly states that the need and purpose of this law are not clear and, moreover, unclear. The conclusion also states that the implementation of the law will cause unjustified harm to civil society in Georgia and will be inconsistent with the historical, legal and moral obligations assumed by the member state of the Council of Europe. At the same time, we see that August 31 is approaching and we also see that the anti-Georgian Dream regime is doing nothing to implement the conclusion of the European Commission, which is necessary for maintaining the visa-free regime. We see that the Georgian Dream is doing everything to ensure that Georgia loses its membership in the Council of Europe. At the same time, we see that the Georgian Dream regime is doing everything to ensure that Georgia and millions of Georgians lose the unique comfort and privilege of visa-free travel. We see that the Georgian Dream regime is doing absolutely everything to ensure that Georgia does not have functioning institutions, real peace and genuine prosperity. This is the clearest proof of why the Georgian people must come out and use all possible tools at our disposal, be it the upcoming elections, protests or raising our voice on the international stage, in order to harm, crush and defeat the evil regime of the Georgian Dream on all possible fronts. For this, we, Strong Georgia, continue to fight, we are engaged in a very active campaign, in order to regain our cities, our state. I would like to call on all Georgians, patriots, and citizens for whom maintaining a strong Georgian state and a pro-European course is important to be active, to fight, and, of course, to protest, in order to regain the Georgian state, to regain the European path taken away from the state, and to create a state that implies real peace, real prosperity, and strong Georgian statehood,” said Grigol Gegelia.
For information, the Council of Europe’s Council of Experts published an opinion on the Georgian law Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). According to the document, the measures envisaged in the Act will have a very significant impact on the freedom of assembly and several other guaranteed rights, therefore, in the opinion of the Council of Experts, it would be appropriate to withdraw the Act and refrain from any steps towards the implementation of its provisions.
Grigol Gegelia: Georgian Dream is doing everything to ensure that Georgia loses its membership in the Council of Europe, it is doing everything to ensure that millions of Georgians lose the unique comfort and privilege of visa-free travel
