Within a maximum of several weeks, a department will already be established within Georgia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs that will ensure constant monitoring so that hostility, confrontation, and hate speech are rejected in this country once and for all. This was stated at today’s briefing by Georgian Vice Prime Minister and State Minister for Coordination of Law Enforcement Agencies, Mamuka Mdinaradze.

According to Mdinaradze, under no circumstances will any problems be allowed to arise for free discussion.

“The Ministry of Internal Affairs will ensure the creation of this department within the theoretically acceptable timeframe formally required to establish a new special division. Therefore, within a maximum of several weeks, we will already have a department within the Ministry of Internal Affairs that will provide constant monitoring so that hostility, confrontation, and hate speech are banned in this country once and for all.

Personally, I consider it one of the priorities of my work to ensure that this kind of weapon of struggle, which is used to fuel polarization and is considered one of its main tools, is driven out of our society as much as possible.

This is very important because if someone in our country is trying to use polarization as a tool to set society against itself, divide it, and make external control over society easier, and if hate speech and language inciting hostility are being used as one of the main instruments for this purpose, then this must be rejected and we must fight against it.

It is possible to hold discussions and criticize one another without this. On the other hand, we will under no circumstances allow free discussion to face any obstacles, and at the same time, in parallel, we will oppose this through effective legal mechanisms, for which a legislative framework already already exists. We will ensure the enforcement of these measures as effectively as possible,” Mamuka Mdinaradze stated.