Bringing the Chinese to Anaklia, in this dose, is a stab to our relations with the American or European partners, – said the President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, at the reception for representatives of opposition political parties who signed the “Georgian Charter”.
She claimed that the entire focus recently was on the “Transparency of Foreign Influence” law, which is why other decisions of the government were not given proper attention.
“In the recent period, we have less time and means to pay attention to the rest of the laws which were adopted at an urgent pace, with accelerated procedures. The whole focus has been on the ‘Russian law’ and we haven’t paid as much attention as we should have.
“For example, the ‘offshore law,’ which is anything but transparent. They like this word very much, but not always, and in this case it is a totally non-transparent law that opens the country to various capitals unknown to the public.
“Also, changes were made that worsen the election code, but that’s okay, we’ll deal with that too.
“A very harmful law on the pension fund is being prepared. This is a bit more technical and complicated. What is happening now is the transfer of the pension fund into the hands of the government, and it is a very dangerous direction.
“And the fact that bringing Chinese business to Anaklia in such a dose is also a stab to our relations with our American or European partners,” she said.
A Chinese consortium — China Communications Construction Company Ltd, together with China Harbor Investment — was selected as a private investor for the construction of the new deep-water port of Anaklia.
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