"Someone decided that foreigners could write laws for us from the outside! I remember just two or three years ago, foreigners — including diplomats who should have no involvement in legislation or lawmaking — were sitting directly around the table and drafting laws with us, and often even bypassing us altogether and imposing those laws on us."
The Prime Minister made this statement from the parliamentary rostrum during his annual address.
Kobakhidze repeatedly emphasized that "someone thought the state was weak and could be treated this way."
He also spoke about diplomats interfering in the justice process:
"We witnessed efforts to weaken state institutions from the outside — all of this being done through covert funding. With this hidden foreign financing, they tried to undermine the reputation of our Church, funded LGBT propaganda, political rallies, and so on. All of this was happening behind the backs of the Georgian people. For some reason, they believed they would get away with it, that this would be acceptable.
Remember, for example, the direct and blatant interference in the independence of the judiciary. There were many instances, but I want to remind you of one particular case: a judge from our justice system was summoned by a representative of a foreign embassy and was asked to report on a specific case. This was a direct violation of Georgia’s Constitution, a breach of the Vienna Convention, and a trampling of every principle of law and diplomatic relations. Later, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on that same case and fully upheld the Georgian judge’s decision — yet no one apologized. Someone thought that the Georgian state could be treated like that.
They assumed the state was weak, and this is how they behaved toward our sovereignty and judicial independence," – said Kobakhidze.
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