During the last 20 years, the financial benefits received by US from Georgia is not less than that Georgia received from US, reads another statement issued by the People’s Power movement.

“A couple of weeks ago our movement called on the US ambassador to disclose information about US funding in Georgia. However, Kelly Degnan answered our call with silence. Recently, she once again stated that US has generously helped Georgia over the past years.

We asked Degnan, first of all, to specify how much had been spent by US in Georgia over the past 30 years - 6 billion, 4.5 billion or 3.5 billion. She often talks about 6 billion, when according to their own official sources, US spent 4.5 billion on Georgia, of which only 3.5 billion was transferred to Georgia.

In the conditions when the Ambassador leaves our question unanswered, we should think that US spent 3.5 billion on Georgia, at best. We want to remind you once again that by participating in the military missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, US received 2.5 billion dollars from Georgia. This allows us to draw the conclusion that during the last 20 years, the financial benefits received by US from Georgia is not less than that Georgia received from US.

Unfortunately, we did not get an answer to the question of how much of the 3.5 billion actually remained in Georgia and how much was returned to America, for example, in the form of the salaries received by their own American employees or large sums of money received by American companies for services.

Nor did we get an answer to the question why twice as much money was spent on Georgia under Saakashvili"s authoritarian regime than after 2012.

In total, from the early 2000s to 2012, Americans spent more than 2 billion dollars to bring the United National Movement, or the American agents, to power and to keep them in power. The results of the activities of the UNM in power were: the occupation of 20% of the country’s territories, overcrowded prisons, rape, torture and inhuman treatment of people, total racketeering of business, repressive court, Prosecutor’s Office and Ministry of Internal Affairs, monopolized media, distorted psyche of people and many other vices, the severe effects of which our country and public, unfortunately, feels to this day etc.

The material cost of this heaviest damage may be 10 or even 20 times more than the 3.5 billion spent by the American side. Leaving this aside, it is completely unacceptable, to put it mildly, that they consider the 2 billion spent on bringing and maintaining the UNM in power as an aid.

The worst thing is that the Embassy is still trying to return the UNM to power, and the biggest part of the billion USD spent since 2013 has been used for this. It is known that the largest part of the money spent after 2012 was given to the NGOs, which were openly involved in the revolutionary processes twice in the past 2 years.

Unfortunately, the result of the return of the UNM power will be repression, authoritarianism and a new war, which will lead to the destruction of the country. Accordingly, we cannot allow the funds spent on Georgia after 2012 to be called aid”, - reads the statement.