According to Prime Minister Irakli Gharibashvili, the report published by the US State Department confirmed that Georgia was not involved in circumventing sanctions that are imposed on Russia.

As he told reporters, the State Department report also responded to "months of continuous slander carried out by the radical opposition."

"We all know how property rights were not protected in Georgia until 2012. This situation has changed radically under our government. Today, private property is protected and everyone has the right to freely own property, develop business. Of course, businesses are inviolable just like people's private property. This is an inviolable right of our citizens.

I would like to point out without any speculation, the accusations that we have heard during these months, as if certain sanctions are being circumvented in Georgia, have been proved wrong by the report of the State Department, it says that no similar fact has been observed in the country. We work with maximum transparency, we will work and we will continue to do so in the future. This is the answer to many months of continuous slander, which came from the side of the radical opposition", said Gharibashvili.

For information, according to the 2022 investment climate assessment report of the United States State Department, "the NBG and Georgian financial intuitions act fully in accordance with the financial sanctions imposed by the United States and others on the Russian Federation."