Vice PM Mdinaradze: Phrase ‘double standard’ is worn thin, yet we are frequently compelled to use it for accurate assessments

The phrase “double standard” is worn thin. Yet we are frequently compelled to use it, for the sake of accurate assessments, what is acceptable for them is unacceptable for us and cannot be permitted for us,” Georgia’s Vice Prime Minister and State Minister for the Coordination of Law Enforcement Agencies, Mamuka Mdinaradze, stated today at a briefing in response to a question posed regarding the rally in Copenhagen.

Mamuka Mdinaradze stated that every such occurrence and every double standard must be called out every time.

“The phrase ‘double standard’ is worn thin, and yet we are still frequently compelled to use it, as events unfold, for the sake of accurate assessments, when what is acceptable for them is unacceptable for us and cannot be permitted for us. It was thus when we were adopting the transparency law, in a considerably softer, lighter form, permissible somewhere else, but not for us. Though let us not view this too narrowly. This is but one of the ongoing themes. Every month, every week, every day, we are required to assess such small, individual matters, and in doing so, we must never lose sight of the principal issue: external forces are attempting to carry out a kind of conquest through the hands of our own citizens, and we shall not allow this.

Not only in Georgia, but across the world, voices are raised on the question of which side attempts to exert influence, to conquer, to implant itself, to bear down upon countries, and so on. Journalists and politicians often claim that the East pursues its aims through economic means, the North through force, the West via influence over a country’s own people, and, according to some, even the South through processes of assimilation. Each has its own hallmark, in the assessment of many politicians, journalists and citizens alike. In this particular case, what we are dealing with is an attempt to conquer our country through the hands of our own people, in such a manner that the great majority of those people are endeavouring to exert influence over our country and to pursue their own interests, which in many instances bear no resemblance whatsoever to the interests of our country and our homeland. It is for this reason that we must confront every such occurrence, and the double standard must be exposed every time,” declared Mamuka Mdinaradze.