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Georgia’s prime minister on Thursday said an EU commissioner had hinted he could face an assassination bid over a controversial law but the official said the conversation had been distorted.
Georgian premier Irakli Kobakhidze said the unnamed commissioner told him to be “very careful,” citing this month’s assassination attempt on Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico, while discussing the legislation likened by critics to Russian-style laws.
Olivér Várhelyi says his words about Slovakian PM Robert Fico were taken out of context, after the Georgian Dream leader claimed it was part of a sinister conspiracy.
The EU’s enlargement chief has accused Georgia’s prime minister of distorting his words, after the PM accused him of intimidation in an explosive outburst.
Tensions are running high between the EU and Georgia, as the country tries to push through a Russia-style law which would classify some EU-funded NGOs and media outlets as “foreign agents.”
In a statement posted on Facebook Thursday, Irakli Kobakhidze claimed that his increasingly authoritarian government is facing “abusive blackmail” from the West, and said a senior EU official had hinted he could face the same fate as Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who was shot four times earlier this month.
“The threat aired during a phone call with a European Commissioner was astonishing,” he wrote. “In my conversation, the European Commissioner listed a number of measures Western politicians can take after [Georgia passes] the transparency law and, while listing these measures, [the Commissioner] said ‘look what happened to Fico, you should be very careful.'”
In a statement published later Thursday night, Neighborhood and Enlargement Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi said his words had been “not just fully taken out of context but was also presented to the public in a way which could give rise to a complete misinterpretation of the originally intended aim of my phone call.”
