The 2019 Fiscal Budget of the US (FY19 Consolidated Appropriations Act) includes important passages about de-occupation of Georgian regions and non-recognition policy – Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports.

The financial aid is also increased for Georgia as per the document and amounts USD 127,025,000 for carrying out of foreign operations and related programs.
Based on the text, not a single country will be able to use financing if US Secretary of State determines that the country recognized the independence of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions occupied by Russia and established diplomatic relations with these regions.

The draft bill also calls on US Treasury for giving instructions to international financial institutions not to support financing of any program (credit, grant) that violates Georgia’s territorial integrity and state sovereignty.

Congress passed full appropriations for the remaining seven appropriations bills for the rest of the fiscal year 2019, and the president signed the omnibus prior to the expiration of the existing continuing resolution (CR) at midnight on February 15. On January 25, a three-week continuing resolution was enacted to reopen the government after a 35-day partial government shutdown, the longest in American history. The other five appropriations bills had been previously enacted through two minibus spending packages before the start of FY 2019.