"I am grateful for Germany's sanctions on the illegitimate Ivanishvili regime," Congressman Joe Wilson (Republican Party), co-chair of the US Helsinki Commission, said in response to the imposition of additional entry bans by Germany on "persons responsible for the crackdown" in Georgia.

“Grateful for German sanctions on the illegitimate Ivanishvili regime. More sanctions are coming. Free and fair elections are on the only way forward!”, he said.