Ruling party head warns against “any revolutionary scenario” in country
The official said the state body’s indication of the role of the USAID in the funding of the alleged trainings was “even more troubling”. Photo: Georgian Dream Press Office
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Iraikli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Monday said Georgia was a “sovereign, independent” state where the Government would ensure “peace and tranquillity” and “not allow either a revolution or [an opening of] a second front [amid the war in Ukraine]”.
Kobakhidze’s comment followed the Georgian State Security Service on Monday claiming “top managerial representatives” from the Belgrade-based Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies had been invited to Georgia by the East-West Management Institute of the United States Agency for International Development programme last month to “train domestic civil groups and individuals for a planned unrest” in Tbilisi this fall.
[I]t can be said unequivocally that the Government will not allow [revolutionary processes]. Georgia is a sovereign, independent state, and we will ensure peace and tranquillity in our country, and we will not let anyone disturb this country - we will not allow either a revolution or a second front”, Kobakhidze said.
The official said the state body’s indication of the role of the USAID in the funding of the alleged trainings was “even more troubling”.
I watched the briefing of the State Security Service. You remember that at first these people tried to hide the real purpose of their visit [to the country]. They talked about the fact that they supposedly had meetings and trainings with representatives of the cultural sphere, but it turned out that their goal was to prepare and plan revolutionary processes in our country, which is troubling”, Kobakhidze said.
“It's all the more troubling when it turns out that all this has been funded by the United States Agency for International Development, which is called USAID, which stands for ‘America's Aid’. I think this is not America's help”, he continued.
The ruling party head added the Georgian authorities would “need clarifications” on USAID’s funding of the trainings, the “direct purpose” of which he said was to “prepare for a revolution in Georgia”.
The Service’s statement followed the agency’s claims last month, in which it said it had uncovered a plan by former officials of the previous United National Movement Government to cause “civil unrest” and overthrow the country’s Government using a “Euromaidan scenario” in November and December, through use of public fallout of the potentially negative decision by the European Union bodies on granting Georgia the bloc’s membership candidate status later this year.
The Georgian State Security Service on Monday claimed “top managerial representatives” from the Belgrade-based Centre for Applied Nonviolent Action and Strategies had been invited to Georgia by the East-West Management Institute of the United States Agency for International Development programme last month to “train domestic civil groups and individuals for a planned unrest” in Tbilisi this fall.
Kakha Kaladze, the Mayor of Tbilisi and the Secretary General of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Thursday said the Government would “protect the country and its citizens” from alleged efforts by a part of the domestic opposition to “bring a disorder into the country”.
Shalva Papuashvili, the Georgian Parliament Speaker, on Monday said Giorgi Lortkipanidze, the country’s former Deputy Interior Minister under the United National Movement Government who currently serves as the Deputy Head of the Ukrainian military intelligence, had been “exposed for the second time” in “organising an unrest” in Georgia.
The Georgian State Security Service on Monday claimed it had uncovered a plan by former officials of the previous United National Movement Government who were aiming to cause “civil unrest” and overthrow the country’s Government using a “Euromaidan scenario” this fall.
Shalva Papuashvili, the Georgian Parliament Speaker, on Monday urged the United States Agency for International Development to respond to allegations by the country’s State Security Service that said the Agency’s East-West Management Institute had funded trainings in Tbilisi last month for causing “unrest” in the country this fall.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday said his Government would not allow “any disturbance or destabilisation” in the country by “destructive and radical” forces, in a comment following the State Security Service’s comment that alleged trainings of certain civil groups with the goal of organising an “unrest” this fall.
Aleksandre Darakhvelidze, the Deputy Interior Minister of Georgia, on Monday claimed the country’s State Security Service had obtained evidence of a “grave provocation against the state”, in response to the body’s statement over trainings of domestic groups for “anti-Government actions” planned this fall.
Iraikli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday said the response of the United States Embassy in Georgia to the statement of the country’s State Security Service’s that alleged an US state programme’s funding of trainings of certain civil groups in Georgia with the alleged goal of organising an “unrest” in the country this fall was “concerning”, as “the public expects to hear from the Embassy that revolutionary processes will not be supported”.
Mamuka Mdinaradze, the Executive Secretary of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Tuesday commented on the draft amendments to the law of Georgia on Assemblies and Manifestations and said “it is our obligation to prevent unrest” in the country both at the legislative and practical levels, as “revolutionary” actions were planned this fall.