PM says “disturbance, destabilisation” will not be allowed in country after Security Service statement
Garibashvili responded to the comments by saying “I want to warn these persons once again - both the hostile forces operating within the country and their supporters abroad - that we will not allow any disturbance in the country”. Photo: Government Administration
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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.
The Service on Monday said “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.
Garibashvili responded to the comments by saying “I want to warn these persons once again - both the hostile forces operating within the country and their supporters abroad - that we will not allow any disturbance in the country”.
We know very well what their plans are, their purpose. Their goal is, of course, violence, disorder, and destabilisation. They certainly don't like the success and prosperity we have in the country today. They don't like that we have maintained peace and stability in the country today”, he added.
“Their desire, of course, is to overthrow the Government by violent means and open a second front [of the war in Ukraine] in the country. That was the original goal, [and] it remains, unfortunately, still their goal”, the Government head alleged.
Garibashvili stressed the Georgian Dream party governance had ensured the “only continuous period of peace and stability” for the country.
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.
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.
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]”.
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”.
The “successful” cooperation and “friendly” relations between Georgia and Slovenia were discussed on Monday in a meeting between the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Urška Klakočar Zupančič, the President of the National Assembly of Slovenia.
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.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Tuesday alleged the United States Agency for International Development had known about the “false data” of the parallel vote count released by the International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy during Georgia’s 2020 Parliamentary Elections and had chosen to “hide” the fact from Georgian citizens.