Georgia Seeks ‘Fresh Start’ in US Partnership, Calls for Clear Roadmap

Georgia's Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze expressed hope on Friday for a "fresh start" in the country's strategic partnership with the United States, emphasizing the need for a "clear roadmap" that ensures "tangible results for both sides."

In his remarks over the matter, Kobakhidze emphasised that his Government would “work actively” towards the goal, The Caspian Post reports, citing Georgian media.

“We have high hopes that the deep state will ultimately be defeated in the US and, in that case, the approach toward Georgia will change entirely”, Kobakhidze told journalists.

He reiterated his Government had a “strong desire for close cooperation” with the new US administration.

“We can once again state that we strongly desire close cooperation with the new administration. More than that, we seek to reboot the strategic partnership from a clean slate, with a specific roadmap that includes specific results, both for us and for the US. For this, we will work actively”, the PM continued.

Kobakhidze further commented on the Trump administration’s decision to suspend all foreign funding for 90 days by claiming that “all this will benefit the stable development of our country”.

He noted statements of the new US Government regarding this funding were “interesting” and “confirm that their predecessors used grants to cause unrest in various countries”.

“The processes are developing in an interesting way. We have demanded transparency over [foreign] grants, and as you remember, there was a huge uproar about it. They linked two attempts at revolution to one simple issue - that NGOs should publish information about their funding once a year”, he said in reference to the Government-introduced law on transparency of foreign influence.

“This led to an attempt at revolution in the spring of 2023 and another in the spring of 2024. A certain part of society was misled, and there were hysterical reactions. However, today we see that some of this funding is made public, and very interesting details are emerging”, he said.

Kobakhidze stressed that attempts to “destabilise our country” should “not be funded from outside”.