{"id":1307247,"date":"2025-10-16T15:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/osce-chief-elina-valtonen-fined-in-georgia-for-participating-in-protest\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T12:24:19","slug":"osce-chief-elina-valtonen-fined-in-georgia-for-participating-in-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/osce-chief-elina-valtonen-fined-in-georgia-for-participating-in-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"OSCE chief Elina Valtonen fined in Georgia for participating in protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In Georgia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs fined the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Elina Valtonen five thousand lari, which is more than one thousand eight hundred dollars, for participating in a protest in Tbilisi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsgeorgia.ge\/v-gruzii-glavu-mid-finljandii-oshtrafovali-za-perekrytie-dorogi-na-akcii-protesta\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsGeorgia<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen was fined five thousand GEL for &#8220;illegal roadblocking&#8221; during a protest.<\/p>\n<p> It is currently unknown whether Valtonen was served with an administrative offense report and whether she paid the fine before leaving the country.<\/p>\n<p> The minister was in Tbilisi on an official visit on October 14\u201315. During the trip, she joined participants in an anti-government rally on Rustaveli Avenue, where demonstrators blocked traffic, despite the small number of participants.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I joined the action to express support for freedom of speech in Georgia,&#8221; Elina Valtonen explained her participation in the protest.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that the head of the OSCE and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/hlava-obsye-zaiavyla-pro-neobkhidnist-reform-v-orhanizatsii-ukraina-prezentuvala-sviy-plan-iz-p-iaty-krokiv\/\">Elina Valtonen stressed the urgent need to reform the organization<\/a> , which has been operating without an approved budget for several years. Ukraine, for its part, proposed five steps for the OSCE to overcome the crisis caused by the blockade by Russia.<\/p>\n<p> As is known, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/obsye-otrymala-novykh-kerivnykiv-shcho-pro-nykh-vidomo\/\">the OSCE Ministerial Council approved the new leadership of the Organization<\/a> , in particular, Turkish diplomat Feridun Sinirlioglu became the new Secretary General of the OSCE.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Georgia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs fined the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Elina Valtonen five thousand lari, which is more than one thousand eight hundred dollars, for participating in a protest in Tbilisi. This is reported by NewsGeorgia . The OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen was fined five thousand GEL for &#8220;illegal roadblocking&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1307242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1307247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1307242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}