The real motive for the attack on the free Georgian media was to give the discredited, dying opposition a small chance to survive - no one can stifle the right word in Georgia, because just as water inevitably finds its bed, so the truth will always find its way, - reads the statement of the Georgian Dream Political Council on the issue of the sanctioning of two Georgian TV companies - Imedi and POSTV by UK, which was presented to the public by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze.

As Kobakhidze noted at the briefing held at the party office after the end of the Georgian Dream Political Council meeting, no sanctions can force the national broadcaster to refuse to tell the truth and inform the Georgian public.

“Great Britain has imposed sanctions on two leading Georgian broadcasters, which is an unprecedented example of an open attack on free media. This fact is, on the one hand, tragic, and, on the other hand, comical, given the official reason used as a pretext for imposing sanctions. Naturally, the real motive for the attack on free Georgian media was to give the discredited, dying opposition a small chance to survive. For foreign ill-wishers of our country, the necessity of this is still acutely on the agenda. They see that on one side stands the Georgian Dream in the service of the Georgian people, in which the Georgian people have expressed their firm trust twice over the past two years, and on the other side stands the radical opposition in the service of external forces, foreign agents that do not value the legitimacy of the Georgian people and area concerned with nothing except failing to fulfill the tasks of its foreign patrons. These people do not have a motherland, which their reaction to the British sanctions once again demonstrated best. It is already obvious to everyone, and they do not hide it themselves, that for these people, not only the homeland, which is a much higher and more emotional concept, but also the state and statehood, mean nothing. In fact, they have only one motivation - to wait on their knees for tasks from foreign masters, the unconditional fulfillment of which is their only duty.

It is logical that they expect help only from foreign masters, especially when it is obvious that they are not only in great difficulty, but are on the verge of existence. For these people, the only source of legitimacy is not the support of the Georgian people, but of their foreign masters. The centuries-old history of our country has taught us beyond a doubt that every Georgian with a passport, who entered and acted in this country with the support and instructions of foreign powers, brought only chaos, destruction and slavery.

Of course, no sanctions can force a national broadcaster to refuse to tell the truth and inform the Georgian public. No one can suppress the right word in Georgia, because just as water will inevitably find its bed, so the truth will always find its way. Against this background, the shout of joy that people without a homeland, without a state-based mindset and a sense of the state, expressed in response to the foreign attack on media freedom is exceptionally comical and tragic. This reaction is the best lustration of the value system we are dealing with,” reads the statement.