“Distancing from the West is the deliberate choice of the Georgian Dream, which believes that the West is a union of agents which organized a revolution, then prompted to wage a war somewhere and tempted Ukrainians,” said Iago Khvichia, leader of the parliamentary Girchi party.

Khvichia remarked on the statement of Matthew Miller, Spokesperson of the US Department of State, about the imposition of sanctions on Bidzina Ivanishvili (GD Founder) at the daily press briefing on May 6.

According to Khvichia, the conspiracy theory that the GD offered to Georgian society is anti-European but pro-Russian.

“The entire West says that this is anti-western behaviour. Georgia will not thus join the EU, but we continue doing the same. The main problem is not the Russian law but unilateral rule, which forces 83 MPs to act against their will. Georgian people will not allow anyone to reconsider the country’s foreign course. Georgians will not reconcile with that,” he said.

Iago Khvichia believes that the struggle should continue in any form, although the imposition of sanctions might supplement it.

“Precarious trajectory means Nothern course, hugging with the adversary and quarrelling with friends. Sanctions are not a solution. I have never supported sanctions, but if there is no other way and we head towards Russia, we should fight in any form. Sanctions might be supplementary, but we should count on ourselves. Everything that the Georgian Dream speaks about transparency law is not serious. Only a few and close supporters of the GD take Bidzina Ivanishvili’s statements seriously,” he said.

On May 6, Matthew Miller said: “We are going to keep pressing our case, which is we believe that the law that they are considering would put Georgia on a precarious trajectory. It would jeopardize Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic path and undermine the U.S.-Georgia relationship, and we will continue to make that clear, and they will make their own decisions.”

Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said that Georgian Law On Transparency would not come close to the US FARA with “the severity of regulations.”