{"id":14241,"date":"2018-11-20T06:45:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T02:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/myth\/geworld-ge-releases-fake-statistics-and-wrong-forecasts-by-alexander-chachia-for-the-third-time\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T00:03:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T20:03:41","slug":"geworld-ge-releases-fake-statistics-and-wrong-forecasts-by-alexander-chachia-for-the-third-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mythdetector.ge\/en\/geworld-ge-releases-fake-statistics-and-wrong-forecasts-by-alexander-chachia-for-the-third-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Geworld.ge Releases Fake Statistics and Wrong Forecasts by Alexander Chachia for the Third Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

On November 15, a website Georgia and World (Geworld) released an article<\/a> titled \u201cForecasts and analysis by a famous political analyst proved accurate.\u201d The article provides some fragments from the interview of Moscow-based political analyst, Alexander Chachia, who claims in one of his remarks dated September 18-24, 2013 that the West will not invest money in Georgia\u2019s agriculture and therefore, the country has to take a loan, which has already reached USD 13-14 billion.<\/p>\n

Alexander Chachia, political analyst: <\/strong>\u201cDo you think that [ex-President Mikheil] Saakashvili did not want to attract investments to industry and agriculture? He did, but nobody invested money. The West does not need Georgia\u2019s industrial and agricultural products. The western capital will not invest money in these spheres. Just therefore, [ex-President Eduard] Shevardnadze and Saakashvili were taking loans from the West; they were borrowing money. Today, Georgia\u2019s external debt amounts to GEL 13 or 14 billion. In the absence of our own economy, we have to take new loans to pay off only the interests of this loan. It is nothing but bondage.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Geworld.ge\u2019s claims that Chachia\u2019s forecasts turned out to be accurate and that the West has not invested any money in the sphere of agriculture do not correspond to the truth. Only within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD), EUR 179.5 million has been invested in the development of Georgia\u2019s agriculture for the period of 2013-2022. In addition, the information that Georgia\u2019s external debt constitutes USD 13-14 billion is not true. By 2013, Georgia\u2019s debt amounted to approximately USD 4.3 billion and increased to USD 5.2 billion\u00a0by 2017.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Fact 1: <\/span><\/strong>The total budget for ENPARD in Georgia, covering the period of 2013-2022, is EUR 179.5 million.<\/p>\n

The European Neighbourhood Programme<\/a> for Agriculture and Rural Development (ENPARD) has been implemented in Georgia since 2013. The programme aims at reinvigorating the agriculture and the rural sector in the country with a thorough cooperation of government, civil society, and rural community. The total budget for ENPARD in Georgia, covering the period of 2013-2022, is EUR 179.5 million. According to the programme\u2019s official website, additional GEL 222 million was allocated for III phase of the programme (2018-2022).<\/p>\n

\""\"
\nThe Agricultural Cooperatives Development Agency<\/a> was created in 2013 with the support of ENPARD. The aim of the agency is to promote rehabilitation of rural areas and agriculture through the development of agricultural cooperatives; to ensure social-economic development of rural areas; to improve productivity and competitiveness of agricultural products and develop national economy. 1121 cooperatives have been registered at the agency.<\/p>\n

Fact 2: <\/span>According to the data for 2013, Georgia\u2019s external debt amounted to USD 4,202,026,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Georgia and World has released a number of interviews with Alexander Chachia, where he provides differing data on Georgia\u2019s external debt. In the interviews released in 2013, he changed the figures twice: Chachia said on July 4, 2013 that Georgia\u2019s debt constituted USD 2 billion; about two months later, on September 18, 2013, he increased the figure to USD 13-14 billion.<\/p>\n

Alexander Chachia,<\/a> 4 July 2013: <\/strong>\u201cWe know that Georgia has a debt at 2 billion and it means that even if economic upturn starts in Georgia, it will take us at least 30 years to pay off this debt. Those, who gave us this loan, are telling us: you will sell this facility at a certain price; so they are giving direct instructions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Alexander Chachia,<\/a> 18 September 2013:<\/strong> \u201cToday Georgia\u2019s external debt is about USD 13 or 14 billion. In the absence of our own economy, we have to take new loans to pay off only the interests of this loan.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According<\/a> to the Finance Ministry of Georgia, Georgia\u2019s external debt constituted USD 4,202,026,000 in 2013 and increased to USD 5,177,390,000 in 2017.<\/p>\n

Geworld.ge has released the interview with Alexander Chachia three times. His quotation, where he talks about absence of western investments and external debt, remains unchanged in all of them.<\/p>\n