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Georgian Prime Minister Irakly Kobakhidze called on Friday for a review of relations with the United States after Washington ordered punitive measures over the passage of a law on \u201cforeign agents\u201d, Russian news agencies reported.\u201cGeorgian-American relations must truly be reviewed. We\u2019ll discuss this with the ambassador,\u201d RIA news agency quoted Kobakhidze as telling journalists in Tbilisi.<\/p>\n

The prime minister said relations with Washington had suffered under the previous U.S. ambassador over the diplomat\u2019s call for rapid and sharp changes in policy.<\/p>\n

Georgia\u2019s parliament, controlled by the prime minister\u2019s Georgian Dream party, passed the law requiring organisations receiving more than 20% of their funding from overseas to register as agents of foreign influence.<\/p>\n

The legislation sparked large street protests.<\/p>\n

Opponents of the bill, with its provisions for onerous disclosure requirements and hefty fines for violations, say it is authoritarian and inspired by similar legislation in Russia.<\/p>\n

The European Union says the law could compromise Georgia\u2019s<\/p>\n

bid to join the 27-nation bloc.<\/p>\n

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken this week imposed visa restrictions and launched a review of bilateral cooperation. He said the law would \u201cstifle the exercise of freedoms of association and expression\u201d and impede the work of independent media organizations.<\/p>\n

Kobakhidze\u2019s government says the bill will promote transparency and safeguard sovereignty against what it says is a bid in the West to drag Georgia into confrontation with Russia.<\/p>\n

Parliament voted to override a presidential veto of the bill, which has sparked some of the biggest protests seen in the South Caucasus country since independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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