Zurabishvili announces appeal to the court over the law on foreign agents
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Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili plans to appeal to the Constitutional Court to check whether the controversial law on foreign agents complies with the Constitution and the goals of Georgia's integration into the EU and NATO.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili plans to appeal to the Constitutional Court to check whether the law on foreign agents complies with the Constitution. UNN reports with reference to Novosti Georgia.
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At a meeting with representatives of non-governmental organizations, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili announced that she would file a lawsuit with the Constitutional Court of Georgia to have the law on foreign agents repealed.
It is expected that it will require the court to establish whether the adopted law complies with Article 78 of the Constitution, according to which the constitutional bodies are obliged to take all measures to ensure the country's full integration into the EU and NATO.
Recall
On May 14, amid massive protests, the Georgian parliament passed a law on transparency of foreign influence, which is being compared to a similar Russian law, and later overrode a presidential veto.
On June 27, the PACE called the law on foreign agents a serious setback for Georgia in its efforts to join the European Union. On June 29, at a session of the UN Human Rights Council, representatives of 36 countries called on the Georgian authorities to withdraw the law on foreign agents.
On July 9, EU Ambassador to Georgia Paweł Gerczynski announcedthat Georgia's accession process to the European Union has been suspended. The suspension of Georgia's accession to the EU was a response to the anti-Western rhetoric of the ruling Georgian Dream party, Salome Zurabishvili said.
