Such a resolution, which stands on injustice and is created by the friends of the torturers’ party, is worthless – we are witnessing the devaluation of European values once again, – Georgian Dream MP Irakli Zarkua said while speaking about the resolution of the European Parliament.
He claimed that, in the fall of this year, it will be clear who financed and lobbied for said resolution. As Zarkua notes, the country’s third president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has 12-15 activists in the European Parliament.
“The MEPs have enriched the European Parliament with such pointless, groundless, “argumentless” resolutions. It is shameful, unacceptable, it has a zero price. I am sure that now that the resolution has been baked, we will find out who financed and lobbied for it, in the fall of this year, because they have to declare it. They are acting like they did in the case of Saakashvili, they threaten Georgia and the Georgian people with visa liberalization. Who asks Kubilius? Nor is it their competence. Millions of resolutions were passed, they told us to release Saakashvili, otherwise they would not give us the candidate status. He is in prison, but we received the status. Truth always wins,” said Zarkua.
Today the European Parliament adopted a resolution regarding the draft law on “transparency of foreign influence”, condemning the Foreign Agents bill with 425 votes in favor, 25 against and 30 abstentions.
The joint resolution is based on the five draft resolutions proposed by MEPs on April 22 and encompasses five amendments, including the ones calling for sanctions against the Honorary Chairman of Georgian Dream, Bidzina Ivanishvili, and the withdrawal of the proposed anti-LGBTQ+ Constitutional amendments.
