Former Georgian Dream deputies release another joint letter addressing US Embassy
By Liza Mchedlidze
Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Former members of the "Georgian Dream" party Sozar Subari, Dimitri Khundadze, Irakli Macharashvili and Mikheil Kavelashvili, have released where the deputies express opinions regarding the American financial assistance that it provided to Georgia.
The statement reads that the American Embassy often reminds Georgia that it helped Georgia with 6 billion dollars over the course of the past 30 years.
"When something is given to you, you should not enter into the discussion of the real value of this gift at all.
However, we all understand very well that the United States of America is not a charity organization, therefore, it does not give anything to just anyone, and when allocating money to other countries, it acts according to its own interests.
Therefore, the main thing that the public should be interested in is the purpose for which the American government allocated funds to Georgia and the counterweight of what interest we are reminded so often today of the so-called 6 billion aid.
For example, if we are reminded of this financing as a counterbalance to the interest of opening a second front in Georgia, it is clear that no amount of 6 billion can replace the damage that our country may receive from the war with Russia. We all remember that with the war of 2008, Georgia, together with the lost territories and human victims, received losses of several billion dollars," the statement said.
Former "Georgian Dream" deputies also wrote that if they say that the country was financed with several billions to strengthen democracy, the deputies "will not even make a serious comment on it."
In the letter, the MPs state that Georgia is considered for a certain role, which it should play at the behest of the embassy, and the most interesting thing is to analyze this role.
"The fact is that our only function for them is to contain Russia. They have been preparing Ukraine and Georgia for this function for years, however, the Georgian government did not go to destroy the country, for which the Americans cannot forgive us.
At the end of the statement, the MPs say that they want to ask the embassy one more question, what is its main strategic task when it allocates funds to Georgia and determines the purpose of this funding.
"It will be interesting if the embassy, in the context of its strategic task, presents to the Georgian society detailed information about the purpose of the allocated funds.
We are sure that if the public receives such detailed information, it will become clear to them that when allocating funding, the Americans are not driven by the motive of charity and promoting the well-being of the population of Georgia, but by the interest of expanding the influence of their own agents, who should make Georgia, together with Ukraine, a blind co-executor of the global American scenario," the statement reads.
They call on the US Embassy to be more transparent and to disclose detailed information related to the funding.
The deputies who authored the statement left the ruling party and their parliamentary positions on June 28. They claim that their goal is to tell the public the "whole truth", adding they couldn't do so without leaving the ruling party.
