(ANSA-AFP) - VILNIUS, DEC 3 - Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
said on Monday they would bar Georgian officials from entry over
the country's crackdown on mass protests against shelving
European Union membership talks. Tens of thousands of people
have taken part in four straight nights of protests in Georgian
cities, with the police using tear gas and water cannon to
disperse some rallies. Lithuania and Estonia posted a list of 11
sanctioned officials on X, with Lithuanian Foreign Minister
Gabrielius Landsbergis saying they were "denied entry into
Lithuania due to their responsibility for human rights abuses".
The list included Georgian Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri
and Georgian tycoon Bidzina Ivanishvili, widely regarded as the
country's most powerful person though without any official
government position. (ANSA-AFP).
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