Ruling party leader Kirtskhalia: ‘Kos seeks same goal they’ve pursued since 2022 - turning Georgia into puppet state’

The leader of Georgia’s parliamentary majority, Irakli Kirtskhalia, on Monday said the EU Commissioner Marta Kos’s objective was “identical to the goal they have pursued toward Georgia since 2022: to turn our Government and our country into a puppet, to use our state as a ‘proxy’ and drag it into the disastrous war that Ukraine is involved in”.

Kirtskhalia was responding to comments by Kos, who said Brussels was looking for ways to fund NGOs in Georgia. He said if their intentions had succeeded, Georgia would have been reduced to “mere statistical data”, while Kos and her colleagues would later speak “with concerned expressions” about the consequences.

“These approaches reveal their true attitude toward our country,” Kirtskhalia noted.

Regarding US policy on NGO funding, Kirtskhalia highlighted that Donald Trump’s foreign-policy direction was “well known to the public”.

“I am sure you have seen the action plan presented by the US administration - minimal interference in any country’s sovereignty. Naturally, this is out of sync with today’s Brussels and the bureaucratic structures driven by informal governance, the so-called deep state. We clearly see this divergence,” he added.