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'TBILISI — President Salome Zurabishvili warned that Georgia's survival as a
state is in danger after parliament approved a contentious "foreign agent" law
despite weeks of popular protests and warnings from the West that the move
endangers Georgia's Euro-Atlantic aspirations.
Speaking at a news conference in Tbilisi with the visiting foreign ministers of
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, and Iceland on May 15, Zurabishvili reiterated she
would veto the legislation approved a day earlier, as the government "did not
listen to the voice of its people, nor to the advice of its friends, nor to
anyone's warning, and went its own way."
"The issue of Georgia's survival is at stake today," she said.
"I told our friends about our plans for the future, about what should be a
European platform that I have been working on for several weeks now and which I
will officially present to our people," Zurabishvili said, adding that her
platform is meant to mobilize Georgians ahead of elections later this year.
"Our immediate plan is mobilization for elections, a peaceful path on which we
will all undoubtedly win together, in order to bring our motherland onto a
peaceful and European path," she said.
The law has been condemned by the United States, the European Union, and rights
watchdogs for emulating a similar piece of Russian legislation used by
President Vladimir Putin to crush dissent and stifle independent institutions.'
Via Susan ****
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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