The issue of Georgia’s admission to NATO does not depend on the adoption or non-adoption by the Georgian parliament of the law on foreign agents, Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili said at a briefing on May 27, responding to the question of whether the draft law “On Transparency of Foreign Influence” will create an obstacle to integration into NATO.
“If anyone thinks here in Georgia or anywhere else that the only problem for our NATO membership is the adoption or failure of this law, then it is false or intentional harm.”Papuashvili said.
He added that Georgia sent a contingent of 1,000 people to Afghanistan, while other NATO member countries, whose representatives are now coming to Tbilisi to protest protests against the law on foreign agents, had only dozens of people in Afghanistan.
“We are ahead of many NATO member countries in building democratic institutions”said the head of the Georgian parliament and suggested looking at the results of international research in any direction.
“They made us a promise in 2008, count it, it’s been 16 years since then and we have been standing in front of this door open to the wind for 16 years. “I think the questions are not directed at us in regards to NATO membership, nor in regards to membership efforts.”Papuashvili concluded.
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Recall that on May 13, the Georgian parliament approved in third reading the law “On Transparency of Foreign Influence”, which entails annual financial reporting and does not contain prohibitions and sanctions.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili vetoed the law, but Georgian Dream has already announced its intention to bypass the veto and eventually adopt the law on foreign agents.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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