Vice Parliament Speaker: US Support to Georgia Becomes Stronger
By Gvantsa Gabekhadze
Thursday, January 31
The meetings held in the US Congress make us believe that support to our country becomes stronger, Tamar Chugoshvili, Vice Speaker of the Georgian Parliament stated in Washington late on Tuesday.
The Georgian parliamentary delegation headed Chugoshvili met with the newly elected congressmen including Sylvia R. Garcia, US Representative for Texas’s 29th congressional district seat since 2019.
“Those people whom I talked with can be considered as friends of our country,” Chugoshvili said.
Before the meeting, Georgian legislators met with Brock Birman, Deputy Director of US Agency for International Development (USAID), Daniel Twining, President of International Republican Institute (IRI) and Carl Gershman, President of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Gershman expressed readiness to support the Georgian parliament in organising the Batumi Conference this year, dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative.
The IRI head expressed commitment to further boost IRI-Georgia relations and support to the programs serving for youth engagement, and strengthening of women in politics.
The Georgian delegation and the USAID leadership discussed future cooperation prospects concerning the exchange of academic programs for young political leaders and expressed interest regarding the current situation in the two occupied regions of Georgia Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia), the Georgian Parliament’s press office reported.
In December 2018 the US House of Representatives passed a supportive act which not only condemns the occupation of Georgian lands but also provides sanctions against those who violate human rights in the two Russian-occupied regions of Georgia – Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia).
The act was confirmed as a separate document. Previously the Congress has confirmed many resolutions in support of Georgia. However, the supportive act is more important as a document than as a resolution, the Georgian Foreign Ministry says.
