“By adopting this regulation, the authorities wish to put the civil sector in Georgia beneath management,” mentioned a joint assertion of 200 NGOs.
“Russian regulation is not going to work in our nation and can stay a clean web page,” the teams mentioned.
“The Russian regulation is threatening [oktobrī plānoto parlamenta] election commentary. However we, the civil organizations of Georgia, promise to guard the elections and the voice of each citizen, the assertion mentioned.
Georgia’s parliament on Tuesday accepted a regulation on “international affect”. The delegates overrode President Salome Zurabishvili’s veto with 84 to 4 votes.
A regulation handed by the Georgian parliament requires non-governmental and media organizations that obtain greater than 20% of international funding to register as organizations “working for the advantage of a international nation”.
This sentence is the one distinction from the model that was withdrawn final 12 months, which mentioned that these teams ought to register as “brokers of international affect”.
The regulation has sparked unprecedented protests within the nation and warnings from Brussels that it might hurt Georgia’s bid to hitch the European Union (EU).
The Georgian parliament already accepted the regulation on Could 14, however Zurabishvili blocked it on Could 18.
