American law is not compatible with human rights standards, and the law of the "People's Power" is its modified version – Kobakhidze

According to the chairman of "Georgian Dream", Irakli Kobakhidze, the draft law initiated by "People's Power " on "agents of foreign influence" is a modified version of the American law and the American law itself is not compatible with human rights standards.

Irakli Kobakhidze did not make this comment to the critical media and the quote is spread by "Public Broadcaster". The chairman of the ruling party says that adopting a copy of the American law in Georgia would be unacceptable, and the party is debating on whether to support the draft law initiated by the "People's Power".

 "This issue has not yet been tabled in session, it will probably be tabled in a fortnight, before that we will have consultations, we will meet with representatives of the People's Power, we will also have consultations in majority format and in the last two weeks our position on this draft law will be formed. Regarding the situation now, we had some consultations in advance, for example, at one time the representatives of "People's Power" copied the American bill and we were asked for advice on how possible it would be to adopt such a law in Georgia, on which we had a principled position, the American law is not compatible with human rights standards. , therefore, adopting a copy of this law in Georgia would be absolutely unacceptable, therefore, they formulated such a draft law, which is not a copy of the American one, but a modified version of it. Essentially, what is presented in the draft law is about transparency, it establishes the rule of transparency of relevant organizations, naturally, no one will see a problem in transparency, even if they want to,we will discuss the rest of the details," said Kobakhidze.

For information, on February 14, "People's Power" announced that they were initiating a draft law, which provides for the creation of a register of agents of foreign influence. The law will affect the activities of organizations operating with funding received from abroad. According to them, the draft law was drawn up according to the relevant legislation in force in the USA and the "best practices" of other democratic countries were also taken into account.