Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Gharibashvili said at the government meeting that he is expecting a ‘’transparent explanation’’ from the USAID local office regarding the information released today by the State Security Service.
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"These statements which were released by the State Security Service are of a preventive nature, a warning, in the form of concrete evidence. Once again, I would like to call on everyone to come to their senses. Don't let such destructive forces get the better of you.
We remember the events of March full well, how the students were used and then abandoned.
How they were made to throw Molotov cocktails at policemen. All these are their dirty, anti-national, anti-state plans in action. We will oppose and not allow it. Anyone who puts these anti-state plans into action will be punished with the utmost severity. I also want to express hope that we and the public will be given a proper, transparent explanation from the USAID local office because unfortunately, it turned out that these people came at their invitation and with their funding. This is certainly a disappointing fact, but we will wait for their official explanations and information. We have many years of cooperation with USAID in many directions. Therefore, it is a shame that such things are happening,’’ said the Prime Minister.
SSSG reported on September 18 that a certain group is planning to organize destabilization and civil unrest in Georgia in October-December of this year, the ultimate goal of which is to violently overthrow the government.
According to Bacha Mgeladze, the Deputy Director of the Counter-Terrorist Center, the period has been deliberately chosen when the European Commission's interim and EU's final conclusions regarding Georgia's status as a candidate for EU membership should be published.
On October 2, at a briefing held in SSSG, it was announced that the members of the Canvas organization operating in Serbia, which trained young people, civil activists, and non-governmental organizations in Georgia for the planned coup in October-December, arrived at the invitation of the USAID program.
Irakli Kobakhidze, the head of the governing party Georgian Dream, and Shalva Papuashvili, the chairman of the Georgian Parliament, demanded explanations from USAID.
