The Georgian Parliament is poised to adopt a formal statement regarding the MEGOBARI Act. Shalva Papuashvili, the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, announced this decision during today’s session of the Bureau.

As Papuashvili explained, the forthcoming statement will include the Parliament’s assessments and official response to the MEGOBARI Act.

“The next issue on our agenda is a draft resolution from the Parliament of Georgia—an official statement concerning the so-called MEGOBARI Act recently adopted by the U.S. House of Representatives. Today, society observed the Prime Minister’s open letter to the U.S. President, which, among other issues, addresses the MEGOBARI Act.

Simultaneously, we have prepared a parliamentary statement, crafted with the participation of all factions and political groups, to articulate our stance and evaluations regarding this legislation. The initiative originated jointly from me, as the Chair of Parliament, and the leaders of all factions and political groups. Therefore, this effort is entirely on behalf of the Parliament. It will be forwarded to the Foreign Relations Committee as the lead committee. I will serve as the rapporteur on this issue, and discussions are scheduled to take place tomorrow both within the committee and during the plenary session.

Overall, I would like to note that the so-called MEGOBARI Act, which has been renamed—presumably to mask its true nature, as it includes everything but friendship—rests on false premises and fundamentally distorts reality, especially the realities within Georgia. Our goal is to demonstrate clearly, through well-founded arguments and solid facts, what the actual situation is. We aim to reaffirm our assessment that the measures enacted by the House of Representatives under this Act are, in essence, the opposite of friendship. The public will have the opportunity to follow the debate on this issue. Rest assured, the Parliament will definitely express its position through this official statement,” said Shalva Papuashvili.

The U.S. House of Representatives supported the MEGOBARI Act on May 6. MEGOBARI Act is the abbreviation of the Mobilizing and Enhancing Georgia’s Options for Building Accountability, Resilience, and Independence Act, which means “friend” in Georgian; the official title of the bill is “To counter the influence of the Chinese Communist Party, the Iranian Regime, and the Russian Federation in the nation of Georgia.”