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PM Kobakhidze has blamed “EU politicians and their foreign-financed NGO and Media agents” for violent protests in the country
Georgia will not allow a scenario similar to Ukraine’s Maidan to happen, PM Kobakhidze has vowed.
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He referred to the unconstitutional, Western-backed, US-financed/orchestrated, Nuland-led, violent, coup d'etat in Kiev in 2024, which ousted Ukraine’s democratically elected president, triggered hostilities and bloodshed throughout the Ukraine, as Kiev tried to impose its unwanted regime on ethnically Russian people.
This led to the ongoing proxy conflict between Ukraine and Russia.
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“Unlike Ukraine in 2013, Georgia is an independent, sovereeign state, with many thousands of years of history and culture, with strong institutions and, most importantly, experienced and wise people.
A Maidan scenario cannot , and will not be realized in Georgia.
Georgia is a sovereign state and will not allow this,” PM Kobakhidze said at a briefing on Saturday, as cited by the News Georgia outlet.
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According to the premier, much like the Maidan coup, the current violent unrest in Georgia is the result of interference in the country’s internal affairs by EU politicians and their foreign-financed NGO and Media agents, that spread, misinformation among the Georgian people.
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“The main responsibility for yesterday’s violent rally lies with the relevant European politicians and unelected Brussels bureaucrats, with foreign-financed local agents, the fifth column, which is represented by four opposition parties,” he stated.
An anti-government demonstration in downtown Tbilisi on Friday resulted in police using tear-gas and water
guns to disperse the violent crowd
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Demonstrators "peacefully" demonstrating with flame throwers aimed towards police
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PM Kobakhidze slammed the protest as an “attack on the constitutional order in the country.”
He expressed gratitude to law enforcement who kept protesters from storming the parliament, saying the officers protected Georgia’s sovereignty and independence.
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Protests have been taking place in Georgia since late last month, when the ruling Georgian Dream party secured victory in the parliamentary election with 54% of the vote.
The party is known to advocate pragmatic relations with all neighbors, including Russia, and has recently passed laws considered controversial in the West, including a foreign agents law.
The Georgian Foreign Agents Law is much less strict than the US law which has been in existence since 1938.
Several countries, such as the UK, France, Germany, etc., have such laws.
Why is sovereign Georgia not "allowed" to have such a law?
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The foreign-financed Georgian opposition and pro-Western President Salome Zourabichvili, who spent most of her life in France, refused to recognize the election results and called for mass demonstrations.
The EU, which granted Georgia candidate status in 2023, sided with the opposition, with the European Parliament condemning the elections as “neither free, nor fair” WITHOUT PRESENTING ANY EVIDENCE
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The unrest escalated earlier this week, when PM Kobakhidze announced, the government would postpone Georgia’s EU accession talks until 2028, accusing Brussels of using the talks to meddle in Georgian politics with “constant blackmail and manipulation.”
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Over 250 people have reportedly been arrested in violent clashes between the police and pro-EU demonstrators at rallies in Tbilisi over the past two days alone.
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It should be remembered, violent, Western-backed opposition protests, which later became known as the Maidan, broke out in November 2013 after former Ukrainian President Yanukovich refused to sign an association agreement with the EU.
He was ousted and had to flee for his life.
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EU Threatens Georgia With More Sanctions
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This shows how the EU welcomes aspiring members
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Kaja Kallas, an Estonian extremist, 1 day on the job, has accused the Georgian authorities of using violence against protesters.
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However, protesters spray-painting government buildings. throwing stones at police, and using flamethrowers on police is not violent, and therefore are not mentioned by Kallas and Co.
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Demonstrations have been raging in Tbilisi since Thursday, when PM Kobakhidze announced that Parliament would freeze EU accession talks until 2028, due to Brussels’ “constant blackmail and manipulation” of Georgia’s domestic politics.
At Saturday’s demonstration, demonstrators shot fireworks and lobbed molotov cocktails at riot police, who responded with tear gas and water cannons and arrested several hundred people.
Speaking to reporters in Ukraine on Sunday, Kallas took the protesters’ side. “It is clear, using violence against "peaceful" protesters is not acceptable, and the Georgian government should respect the will of the Georgian people,” she declared.
“When it comes to the European Union, then this clearly has consequences on our relationship with Georgia,”she continued.
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More EU Meddling and Punishment is Coming
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The UK, Germany and France have become dysfunctional countries.
The extremist, unelected, EU-Brussels bureaucrats want to export the EU dysfunctional world to more and more countries, by color revolution, and by election and NGO interference and sanctions, if necessary, such as in Ukraine in 2014, and in Georgia in 2024.
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This is not about Democracy, Freedom, Civil Society, etc., but about command/control over Georgia by the
EU/US/NATO to use Georgia for geo-political "projects" against Russia, BRICS+, etc., as Ukraine is being used, and as Armenia will be used, to "weaken Russia", and get to the oil and gas of the Caspian Sea.
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Kallas said that she had presented EU member states with a list of “options” for dealing with the situation in Georgia, including economic sanctions.
“We, EU members, have different options,” she said. “But of course, we need to come to agreement. which will be difficult”.
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PM Kobakhidze’s Georgian Dream party, which won nearly 54% of the vote in parliamentary elections last month, favors stable, mutually beneficial relations with both the EU and Russia.
Pro-Western opposition parties, as well as Georgia’s French-born president, Salome Zourabichvili, have refused to recognize the results of the vote.
She renounced her French citizenship so she could run for President in 2018.
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President Zourabichvili was elected via direct popular vote in 2018.
However, a 2017 constitutional reform mandates, the next president be chosen by an Electoral College composed of members of parliament and regional representatives.
The vote is scheduled for mid-December, with the victor expected to be inaugurated before the end of December 2024.
President Zourabichvili’s mandate ends this Dec 29, 2024, but she has refused to leave office, until the elections are re-run.
She is using the insurrection, demonstrations and riots, supported with interference/sanctions/financing/advice from the EU, where she lived for decades, and has long-standing connections, to overthrow the existing government, before the Electoral College will meet to elect a new President, in accordance with the Georgian Constitution.
PM Kobakhidze’s Georgian Dream party has stated there will not be another general election.
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PM Kobakhidze has blamed the civil unrest on “EU politicians and their foreign-financed NGO and Media agents and foreign-financed individuals,” accusing the West of trying to orchestrate/finance a coup d'etat, like the US-orchestrated/financed Maidan coup d'etat that toppled Ukraine’s democratically elected president in 2014.
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Earlier this year, PM Kobakhidze accused the European Commission of threatening him with assassination over the passing of a law forcing NGOs and Media and Individuals that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as foreign agents.
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In 1938, Congress enacted the Foreign Agents Registration Act ("FARA"), requiring “foreign agents” to register with the Attorney General. As amended over the years, it applies broadly to anyone who acts on behalf of a “foreign principal” to, among other things, influence U.S. policy or public opinion.
The UK, France, Germany, etc., have similar laws.
Those laws are much stricter than the Georgia law
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Kallas of Estonia assumed office on Sunday, Dec 1, 2024.
PM Kallas is known for her ardent anti-Russian policies and rhetoric, and has repeatedly called for more sanctions on Moscow and military aid to Kiev.
Under her leadership, Estonia became the first EU country to approve a mechanism to confiscate frozen Russian assets and use them as “compensation” for Ukraine.
Russia issued an arrest warrant for Kallas earlier this year due to her efforts to destroy Soviet WW-2 memorials in Estonia.
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Conservative Georgian PM Kobakhidze Suspends Talks for Joining the ...
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PM Kobakhidze's statement on November 28, said the ruling Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia party had decided to postpone any talk about launching accession negotiations until late 2028, and decline any funding from the European Union.
According to the PM, the decision comes after repeated attempts by the EU to blackmail Georgia with promises of launching the talks in exchange for Tbilisi revoking certain laws passed by the country’s parliament.
Georgia is not even a member of the EU and already is being told by unelected Brussels bureaucrats what to do, or else.
That is no way to treat a sovereign nation.
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Many Protesters in Georgia are Foreigners, According to Georgia Lawmaker
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/many-protesters-in-geo...
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Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze previously accused the West of trying to orchestrate a Maidan-like coup in the country
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Up to 30% of those identified at recent protests in Georgia's capital Tbilisi have turned out to be foreign nationals, according to the executive secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Mamuka Mdinaradze.
Anti-government protests broke out in the Georgian capital last week after PM Kobakhidze announced, he would be suspending accession talks with the EU till 2028, due to Brussels’ “constant blackmail and manipulation” of the former Soviet republic’s domestic politics.
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Pro-EU protesters have since taken to the streets and repeatedly clashed with law enforcement, setting off fireworks and throwing Molotov cocktails at riot police, as well as setting fire to the parliament building.
Law enforcement officials have in turn deployed tear gas and water cannons in an attempt to disperse the protesters, over 200 of whom have reportedly been arrested.
More than 110 police officers have also been injured during the protests.
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Speaking at a briefing on Tuesday, Mdinaradze claimed that “30% of the people who were identified at the protests in Tbilisi are citizens of other countries.”
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"What’s going on? Someone has to explain this strangeness.
Why are these foreign citizens so upset after our decision?” the politician asked, noting, there were many Russian citizens among the detained protesters, as well as people from the US, the UK and the Netherlands.
Following the escalation of hostilities between Moscow and Kiev in 2022, Georgia became one of the primary destinations for Russian citizens who disagreed with Russia’s policies.
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Meanwhile, PM Kobakhidze slammed the protests as an “attack on the constitutional order” in Georgia, and blamed the civil unrest on “EU politicians and their agents.”
He also claimed, the West was trying to orchestrate a Maidan-style revolution in Georgia, referring to the US-backed coup in Kiev in 2014, which ousted the country’s democratically elected president and precipitated the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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The PM has said, those behind the protests will not be able to realize the Maidan scenario in his country because, “unlike Ukraine in 2013, Georgia is an independent state with strong institutions and, most importantly, experienced and wise people.”
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Moscow has also compared the anti-government protests in Georgia to the Maidan coup, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stating, the riots exhibit “all the signs of an attempt to carry out an ‘orange revolution.”
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Georgian Police Arrests Protest Leaders, Raids NGOs for Explosives and Molotov Cocktails
PM Kobakhidze Rejects Blinken Criticism, Will Wait for Trump To Improve Relations
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By Paul Serran
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Georgian capital Tbilisi is having a calm night after police arrested some of the protest’s leaders, and raided NGOs offices to seize explosives, gas masks, Molotov cocktails and other materials.
Georgia’s prime minister has vowed to ‘eradicate’ the country’s ‘liberal-fascist’ opposition that is violently protesting, and trying to wage a Color Revolution in Georgia
Tbilisi has been a stage for unrest ever since the Georgian Dream party obtained a sweeping victory in the last election.
Following the start of protests, the government suspended EU membership talks until 2028, leading to a fresh wave of demonstrations.
“PM Kobakhidze has refused to back down in the face of international condemnation, instead escalating a feud with pro-EU opposition groups that are demanding a rerun of the elections.
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‘We will do everything necessary to completely eradicate liberal fascism in Georgia’, he told reporters Thursday. ‘This process has already begun.
These recent developments mark the start of the end of liberal fascism in Georgia’, he said
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The PM called on parents to protect their children from ‘the influence of liberal fascist hubs’.
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“Around 300 people (Georgians and foreign protestors) have been detained and dozens are injured, including protestors and police, in clashes outside the parliament building in central Tbilisi over the last week.
On Wednesday, Georgian police arrested seven people for ‘organizing and leading group violence’ and seized crates of fireworks, which have been launched by protestors at riot police.”
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US lame duck Secretary of State Antony Blinken denounced Georgia’s ‘forceful crackdown’, threatening additional sanctions against the country’s leaders.
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“Kobakhidze, on Thursday, rejected Blinken’s statements, and said Tbilisi was hoping for better relations with Washington after Donald Trump comes to power in January.”
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