The destabilization of Georgia is moving forward with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s March 10 meeting with Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, in which he warned her that Georgia “should avoid becoming an avenue for evasion or backfill” of the sanctions imposed on Russia, a White House readout said. Along with that “stick” came a “carrot” of Georgia possibly joining the European Union: “They talked about President Zourabichvili’s advocacy for a unified and inclusive approach to achieving the reforms necessary to advance Georgia’s candidacy for European Union membership,” the readout stated.
A central focus of Sullivan’s concern was draft legislation which had been submitted to Georgia’s parliament calling for non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which receive more than 20 percent of their funds from foreign sources to register as agents of foreign influence. Since Washington and London rely heavily on such NGOs as channels through which to launch a colored revolution in Georgia – much as they did in Ukraine and elsewhere – they were adamantly opposed to the bills.
After well-orchestrated anti-government demonstrations were held in Tbilisi on March 7 and 8 against the bills, the government withdrew the bills and President Zourabichvili praised the demonstrators. Zourabichvili, it should be noted, was born in France and only became a Georgian citizen in 2004, after which she was immediately named Foreign Minister.
The White House read out on the meeting with Sullivan continued:
