Georgia demands clarification from US regarding financing for preparation of unrest

The United States needs to provide clarification on the issue of funding by the Agency for International Development (USAID) for training in Georgia with the participation of Serbian citizens, who prepared the residents of the republic for the overthrow of the government in 2023, the chairman of the ruling Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia party, Irakli Kobakhidze said, Report informs via TASS.

“As it turned out, all this (the overthrow of the government) is financed by the United States Agency for International Development, which is called USAID, which means US assistance, but this is not assistance from the United States, it seems to me. Of course, we will need clarification on this. Why did USAID fund such training, the direct purpose of which was to prepare a revolution in Georgia?” Kobakhidze said at a press briefing.

Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili called information about USAID financing of revolutionary processes in the republic a dark day in the history of American assistance provided to Georgia.

“This marks a dark day in the history of US aid to Georgia. As we see, the money of the American people is used here to plan some kind of revolutionary process in order to purposefully prepare people for unrest and provocation of violence. It's a shame that the American people's money is involved in this,” he told reporters.