Saakashvili accuses Georgian authorities of damaging relations with the West, Armenia, and Azerbaijan

Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili, who is currently serving a prison sentence, has accused the country’s current authorities of worsening relations not only with Western partners, but also with its close neighbors Armenia and Azerbaijan.

“Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze is demanding from Armenia that Yerevan expel Georgian NGOs (which are now full of Georgians, since the conferences that used to be held in Georgia with Western funding have all moved to Yerevan) and close their accounts.
Pashinyan’s government responds that there is no law on foreign agents in Armenia and none is being planned, nor is there any basis for restricting the freedom of Georgians. In turn, Kobakhidze is threatening Yerevan with restrictions on the movement of goods,” Saakashvili wrote on his Facebook page.

The former president drew attention to the fact that the Georgian side has also begun creating problems for Azerbaijan. “At the same time, Tbilisi has already created a problem for Azerbaijan regarding the movement of goods. Azerbaijani media are rightly seeing Russia’s influence in this,” Saakashvili emphasized, noting “the justified anger of official Baku.”