PM Kobakhidze says OSCE continues pressure campaign on Georgia

Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said that an unfair campaign against Georgia by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is continuing.

As reported by Caliber.Az, citing Georgian media, Kobakhidze made the remarks while commenting on information that the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism would be activated against Georgia.

“All these years, an unfair campaign has been waged against Georgia and the Georgian people, and this is its continuation. Here you can see that countries unfriendly toward our people are the authors of such initiatives. It is very unfortunate, but we remain in a mode of one-sided friendship even with these countries,” Irakli Kobakhidze said.

It was recalled that a day earlier, the United Kingdom and 23 other countries activated the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism to establish an expert mission to examine the deterioration of the human rights situation in Georgia.

According to the British government, in December 2024, 38 participating states had already activated the OSCE’s Vienna Mechanism, but concerns over Georgia’s authorities’ compliance with human rights obligations have only increased.

It was noted that the OSCE’s Moscow Mechanism is a tool within the organisation’s human dimension framework initiated by participating states. It involves setting up expert or rapporteur missions to assess the human rights situation in a specific country. The experts and rapporteurs cannot be appointees, citizens, or residents of the country concerned or of the states that initiated the mission.

By Tamilla Hasanova