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Georgia’s “wealthy” NGOs, “traitors”, unwilling country to get EU candidacy – ruling party head

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Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of the ruling Georgian Dream party, on Wednesday slammed eight domestic non-governmental organisations which, on the initiative of Open Society foundation, have presented a survey on Georgia’s implementation of the 12-point conditions outlined by the European Union last year for granting the country its membership candidate status. 

 

In response to the survey, which said the government had fully met one condition, largely met two priorities, partially met five conditions and four remained unfulfilled ahead of the bloc’s decision on the status later this year, Kobakhidze called the NGOs “traitors”, who he said did not wish the country to obtain the status “to spark unrest in the country to change the government”. 

 

The survey has been drafted by Democracy Research Institute, Court Watch, Georgia Democratic Initiative, Georgian Strategy and International Relations Research Foundation, Governance Monitoring Center, Georgia Reforms Associates, Partnership for Human Rights and Sapari. 

 

The report came following the interim, oral assessments by the European Commission earlier this month, which said the country had “fully met” three of the conditions, “partially met” seven, showed “limited progress” on the deoligarchisation and “no progress” on media pluralism. 

 

The Georgian Dream officials welcomed the “positive EU Commission report”, claiming that part of the reforms carried out may not appear in the assessments, pledging  “all conditions” would be fulfilled in the coming months, until the Commission’s final assessments in late October.

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