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People are brought from various towns to attend the Georgian Dream’s assembly in Mtskheta by mini-buses and cars. About 2 000 people have already left Kazbegi and Tianeti. About 20 mini-buses were mobilized near Dusheti office of the Georgian Dream; another 20 vehicles are sent to villages.

-Where are you from? Why are you video-recording the area? – a representative of the Georgian Dream asked.

-Do you have accreditation?

-You are impolite people; stop shooting, – the representative of the Georgian Dream told ICMM corresponding though did not introduce himself.

A young man in Georgian Dream’s t-shirt also prohibited ICMM correspondent to footage without accreditation; he himself was shooting us with video-camera. He introduced himself as a representative of the Georgian Dream’s archive.

ICMM called Nona Kandiashvili, head of press-center of the Georgian Dream.

-What kind of accreditation? Who told you that?

-I cannot say anything; you do not need any accreditation.

-Do you want me to arrive in Dusheti and find out situation?

Afterwards, Kandiashvili cut off the line.

Georgian Dream has already held assemblies in Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Ozurgeti. Journalists worked in unequal conditions everywhere.