Kelly Degnan: Anything that weakens media freedom clearly undermines the foundations of democracy

Media freedom is an area that the US Embassy has been supporting for 30 years, as it is the main issue of a robust democracy, US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan said.

According to Degnan, everything that weakens the freedom of the media obviously undermines the foundation of democracy.

"Media freedom is what is provided for by the Constitution of Georgia, as well as the Constitution of the USA. Everything that weakens it clearly undermines the foundation of democracy. Therefore, we consider media freedom to be such an important issue for democracy," the Ambassador said.

*The quotes in the article have been double-translated from Georgian and wordings may be inaccurate.

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