Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Kobakhidze considers attempts to appeal the adopted law on agents futile. He stated this while commenting on the lawsuit filed by Georgian NGOs in the Constitutional Court.

“Parliament will properly protect public interests and present all the arguments why transparency is good for our country. Legally, it is simply impossible to prove why NGO transparency is bad,” Kobakhidze said.

Earlier, Georgian NGOs decided to appeal the law “On Transparency of Foreign Influence” in the Constitutional Court. “If the Constitutional Court does not stop the operation of the controversial articles of the law, we will appeal to the ECHR,” their joint statement says.

Kobakhidze also called the conversation about possible sanctions from the United States and European countries “frivolous.”

“For us, it is not serious if someone talks about sanctions; it is counterproductive for the very subjects who talk about it. Whoever makes such a statement will be frivolous and counterproductive.”

Prior to this, Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili called statements about sanctions from Washington “a conversation with the Georgian people in the Russian style.”