Parliament official reaffirms ruling party’s “readiness” to bring relations with US “back to normal course”

Levan Makhashvili, the Chair of the Georgian Parliament’s Committee on European Integration, on Tuesday reaffirmed the ruling Georgian Dream party’s “readiness to bring the relations with the United States back to a normal course”.

In his remarks over the matter, Makhashvili noted that the Trump administration's domestic and foreign policies would be “entirely built on American interests”.

It will be entirely tailored to ensure that America gains as much benefit as possible from this policy. It is logical, therefore, that we must draw serious conclusions. The second conclusion we can make is that Trump seems to intend to dismantle or reassess liberal ideology, significantly restricting it. This has already been manifested in several of his decisions”, the Parliament official said.

“The first is the issue of gender. He clearly states that there are only two genders, male and female, and does not recognise any other genders. The second is the respect for family, traditional, and conservative values. The third is the decision made yesterday, which is the dismantling of the deep state, the cleansing of the United States administration and bureaucracy from the deep state and informal influences. Another point we observe is the very strict immigration policy”, he continued.

Makhashvili further noted that the ruling party’s vision was that the “national government of every country should first and foremost take care of its own society and its own state”.

The alignment on fundamental issues gives us hope that relations between Georgia and the United States will be rebooted. We are fully prepared for this”, he concluded.

Trump was on Monday sworn in as the 47th US president at the inauguration ceremony in Washington, D.C.