"We are deeply alarmed about democratic backsliding in Georgia," US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan wrote on X, Reuters reported.

"Georgian Parliamentarians face a critical choice - whether to support the Georgian people’s EuroAtlantic aspirations or pass a Kremlin-style foreign agents' law that runs counter to democratic values," he said. "We stand with the Georgian people."

The bill would require organizations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as "agents of foreign influence".