On December 12, the US Department of State announced the ban on issuing American visas to individual citizens of Georgia for "undermining democracy".
"The State Department is announcing additional measures today as part of its visa restriction policy, which prohibits the issuance of visas to those responsible for or complicit in subverting democracy in Georgia," the State Department said in a statement. These restrictions will apply to 20 people, including ministers, law enforcement and security officials. as well as private individuals.
"The United States strongly condemns the ongoing, brutal, and unjustified violence of the Georgian Dream party against Georgian citizens, including protesters, media representatives, human rights defenders, and opposition figures." The "Georgian dream" has deviated from the Euro-Atlantic future of Georgia, which the majority of the Georgian people want and which the Georgian constitution envisages.
We are committed to ensuring that senior officials responsible for or complicit in subverting democracy are subject to visa restrictions," the statement said.
According to the State Department, the sanctioned persons will complete the list of more than 100 persons, which mainly includes persons associated with the "Georgian Dream" and their family members. Georgia's relations with the USA and the EU worsened after the adoption of the law "On transparency of foreign influence" in the country, which is considered Russian in the West.
