Biden Admin Urges Georgia Against Russian-Inspired ‘Foreign Agents Law’
Biden Admin Urges Georgia Against Russian-Inspired ‘Foreign Agents Law’
The United States said Wednesday it will continue to urge and reiterate with the Georgian government its “dire concern” with a highly controversial foreign agent law, as Georgian parliament voted to approve it in the first reading, amid mass street protests, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
The draft bill, which the opposition denounces as 'russian', if enacted, "could stigmatize civil society organizations working to improve the lives of Georgians citizens and media organizations operating within Georgia to provide information to Georgian citizens" State Department's Principal Deputy Spokesperson Vedant Patel told a daily briefing.
"... This kind of legislation is not in line with the EU’s norms and values, which would certainly negatively impact Georgia’s stated goal to eventually become a party to the European Union," Patel told TURAN's correspondent.
In the meantime, he refrained from commenting further on the latest engagements with Georgian officials, saying "we never think diplomacy is dead".
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Politics
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Lise Christoffersen (Norway, SOC) and Ian Liddell-Grainger (United Kingdom, EC/DA), Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) rapporteurs for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, and Hannah Bardell (United Kingdom, NR), PACE rapporteur on “Threats to life and safety of journalists and human rights defenders in Azerbaijan”, have expressed deep concern over the detention of Azerbaijani civil society leader Anar Mammadli.
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Last night, 63 opposition activists were detained during protests in the center of Tbilisi against the adoption of the Law ‘On Foreign Agents’, Georgian Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Darakhvelidze said at a briefing on Wednesday.
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Responding to the detention of prominent human rights defender Anar Mammadli, who is Head of the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre and co-founder of the Climate of Justice Initiative in Azerbaijan, Natalia Nozadze, Amnesty International's South Caucasus Researcher, said:
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A group of bipartisan lawmakers led by Dina Titus, a Nevada Democrat, last week introduced the House version of a bill that would enable sanctions against senior Azerbaijani officials for their role in the Karabakh war, and human rights violations, TURAN's Washington correspondent reports.
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