US Warns Georgia Risks Ties to West Over ‘Kremlin-Inspired’ Law
- State Department slams Georgian Dream’s ‘foreign agent’ law
- Riot police use tear gas, water cannon against protesters
Demonstrators face police officers outside the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi on May 1.
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The US warned Georgia that it’s risking relations with NATO and the European Union by pressing ahead with a “foreign agent” law that has sparked massive protests.
The ruling Georgian Dream party’s “Kremlin-inspired” legislation and “anti-Western rhetoric put Georgia on a precarious trajectory,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said. “The statements and actions of the Georgian government are incompatible with the democratic values that underpin membership in the EU and NATO and thus jeopardize Georgia’s path to Euro-Atlantic integration.”