This will have a detrimental effect

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As Giorgi Kobulia told BMG, if the Georgian Dream had not taken steps unacceptable to the West, sanctions could have been avoided. According to his assessment, now it will be increasingly difficult to repair relations with the US. He said that if Georgian Dream fails to mend relations with the West, it will significantly harm the country's economy. “The fact that Bidzina Ivanishvili has been sanctioned by the US Treasury Department is a rather serious fact, both for him personally and for Georgia.


on the development of our country’s economy, in particular, on attracting Western investments. Georgia has already had difficulty attracting Western investments. When we have a situation where the de facto first belgium telegram phone number list person of the country is sanctioned by the US, this is a strong signal to Western investors that investments in this country, under this government, are not welcomed.


It is especially unfortunate that these sanctions were avoidable, if the Georgian Dream had shown some level of flexibility during the dialogue with the US, at least in terms of rhetoric and also in relation to several laws to which the West reacted particularly negatively, these sanctions could have been avoided. This decision will also have a rather negative impact on the United States' policy in this region.