West destabilising situation in Georgia
Security, impunity for (foreign) agents

ANALYTICS  05 May 2024 - 17:28

The situation is unstable in Georgia, which is Azerbaijan’s closest neighbouring country and strategic partner.

A notorious scenario is being implemented there, the purpose of which is to plunge the country into an atmosphere of controlled chaos.

Only in such conditions, having achieved the weakening of the legally elected authorities, the US and the EU can bring their puppets to power in Georgia.

What is the formal reason for the implementation of this scenario? The law on “foreign agents”, which has already passed through two readings in the Georgian parliament.

The US passed the Foreign Agents Registration Act back in 1938, requiring foreign agents in the US representing the interests of foreign powers in a “political or quasi-political sphere” to disclose their relationships with a foreign government and information about related activity and finance.

According to this law, a person can be considered an agent of a foreign principal if his/her activity is fully or mainly financed or subsidised from abroad.

As of 2020, a fine of up to $250,000 or up to five years in prison are envisaged for the violation of this law.

No one has ever tried to asses this US law in Georgia at the state level. However, the US once again thinks that it can interfere into the affairs of an independent country.

The US Department of State has already criticized the plans of the Georgian parliament to adopt a law on “foreign agents”.

“We join our European allies in calling on Georgia not to pass legislation that contradicts the desire of the vast majority of Georgian citizens to be fully integrated into the EU,” Spokesman for the US Department State Matthew Miller said in a statement.

This was a primitive manipulation. After all, the Georgian current leadership has repeatedly and loudly stated that it will not refuse from European integration.

However, it is quite obvious that the US Department of State is deliberately pretending “deaf”. Moreover, the US ambassador to Georgia interferes in Georgia’s internal affairs.

Moreover, the European Parliament called on the EU to deprive Georgia of its candidate status for joining the EU. The calls are being heard to deprive Georgia of the visa-free regime with the EU. All this proves that the provision of Georgia with this status was considered in the West as an element of pressure on Tbilisi.

As a result of the liberalization of the visa regime with the EU, about 700,000 Georgians left for Europe, but they were able to find low-paid jobs there.

The EU has an unemployment problem, and therefore local citizens work in all well-paid service sectors.

There is one prospect for citizens of Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova - to accept job offers that the locals refuse.

Even for such a “gift”, the US and the EU constantly demand concessions from the Georgian leadership, which is blackmail.

We see its new stage now, when the West is trying to impose on Georgia the will of a minority, rather than the majority of the Georgian citizens.

The majority of Georgians understand that following the guidelines of the West will ruin national moral values, one of the features of which will be the encouragement of an increase in sexual minorities.

This is an insult for patriarchal Georgian society. However, the West is advancing its plans impudently and cynically. It has experience in this issue. The same scenario was already used in Georgia in 2004. What is the result?

Let’s remember the events of August 2008, when the then President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili was given false promises and was not supported in the war with Russia.

As a result, Georgia lost South Ossetia and Abkhazia. We all remember the West’s vile attitude. It began to put pressure on Saakashvili. Saakashvili’s activity as a politician was ruined.

By the way, Saakashvili has been in prison for a long time, went on hunger strike several times, but the West has forgotten about its favorite politician.

Apparently, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his team will be in the same situation.

Pashinyan and his team also believed that democratic values were important to the West. However, it is important for the West to achieve control over another region.

The West focuses on the South Caucasus. The developments in Georgia, where we see open attempts by the West to impose its agenda, testify to this.

The work in this sphere has been carried for a long time, and the West has recently created a very strong group in Georgia. The Western countries finance most of the 25,000 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operating in the country, and the West runs them as it wants.

Now, at its instructions, people took to the streets of Tbilisi. The Georgian leadership is absolutely right in harshly suppressing this provocation.

It opposes not only West’s attempts to communicate in the language of ultimatums, but also its plans to establish the hegemony in South Caucasus.

Azerbaijan remembers and knows the essence of this policy very well. That is why, the activity of the US group in Azerbaijan has been limited since 2010, attempts by provocateurs like Alex Grigoriev, who was the head of the Baku office of the NED organisation, to persuade the Azerbaijani youth to revolt were suppressed.

All these plans were blocked by the adoption of laws designed to make the financial activity of non-commercial organisations transparent. Thus, the external financing process in Azerbaijan was controlled.

We remember that attempts were made to put pressure on Baku. However, they turned out to be, as always, futile. We see another attempt to put pressure on Azerbaijan through a provocation initiated by a group of congressmen to impose sanctions against Azerbaijan.

The US and the West understand that it is impossible to achieve any success in the South Caucasus without taking into account the position and interests of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan does not act according to the West’s instructions, firmly defending its national interests.

In these conditions, the West is trying to preserve the remnants of its group in Azerbaijan. This is why we hear criticism towards Baku for investigating the activity of ABZAC-media and Toplum TV.

We hear demands to release those who have been prosecuted under specific articles of the Azerbaijani legislation.

The most interesting thing is that those involved in these investigations admit their guilty, inform about their curators and important moments.

These confessions testify to the cynical goals set by the US and Western countries in relation to Azerbaijan and South Caucasus.

In this regard, only one question arises. What will the ambassadors of all these countries feel in Baku when the public is aware about this shocking truth?

Akbar Hasanov

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