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TBILISI, Georgia — Washington could sign off on a sweeping package of economic and security support for Georgia if its government abandons its increasingly anti-Western rhetoric and stops backsliding on human rights.
Under the terms of a draft bill to be introduced in Congress this week by South Carolina Republican Congressman Joe Wilson and seen by POLITICO, the U.S. would start talks with the South Caucasus country to open “a robust preferential trade regime,” provided key political criteria were met.
Along with improved access to American markets, the bill calls for liberalization of the visa regime for Georgian citizens.
It would also mandate officials to develop a military support package for Georgia including the “provision of security and defense equipment ideally suited for territorial defense against Russian aggression and concomitant training, maintenance, and operations support elements.”
However, the program would only be activated if the U.S. confirms that “Georgia has shown significant and sustained progress towards reinvigorating its democracy, evidenced at minimum by substantially fair and free elections and a balanced pre-election environment.”
As previously reported by POLITICO, Wilson’s bill would introduce individual sanctions on politicians from the ruling Georgian Dream party as well as other government officials if they implement their proposed Russian-style “foreign agent” bill. The legislation, which is waiting for a final vote in parliament next week before being passed into law, would brand Western-funded NGOs, media outlets and campaign groups as foreign agents, which critics say would be used to silence and delegitimize criticism of the government.
Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs James O’Brien has warned that if Georgia passes the foreign agent bill “we will see restrictions coming from the United States” that affect the finances and travel of those behind it. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, meanwhile, said if the foreign agent legislation is implemented, that would “compel us to fundamentally reassess our relationship with Georgia.”
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