So far only a handful of countries have accepted Georgian Dream’s claims of victory, including Azerbaijan, Armenia, Turkey, Hungary and China.
EU ministers on Monday called for an impartial investigation into complaints raised by international observers.
However, Sweden’s Minister for International Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Benjamin Dousa said Monday that the decision to halt all direct government cooperation with Tbilisi was actually made before Georgia went to the polls.
Dousa expressed concerns about recent developments in Georgia, highlighting a recently adopted law on foreign agents, widely believed to be inspired by the Kremlin’s playbook to target government critics.
The EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Tuesday noted that international observers “have also not declared the elections to be free and fair,” urging the EU membership candidate country to conduct a transparent inquiry.
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