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| 13 Dec. '12 | US-Beamter Thomas Melia fasst Besuch in Georgien zusammen
There is a room for more common ground to be developed between the two major political forces in Georgia during possibly “complicated” period of cohabitation, ... “The way the majority deals with the minority, whether in Parliament or in society is an important test of democratic character of any country. A majority wins an election, but it’s important that they respect the right of the minority to have another point of view… I think that [will] be the challenge… to reconcile majority rule with minority rights and that’s true in many different aspects of contemporary Georgian society,” he added.
Asked about planned meeting of Georgian PM’s special representative for relations with Russia Zurab Abashidze with Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin in Switzerland scheduled for December 14, the U.S. State Department official responded: “We support Georgia talking to Russia about how to normalize and improve relationship.” “We look forward to Georgia making its own decisions about how to best move forward with that dialogue and we encourage it,” Melia added.
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| 29 Nov. '12 | Head of Zestaponi Municipality Arrested
Kakha Getsadze, head of a local municipality in Zestaponi in western region of Imereti, was arrested and charged with hooliganism and causing bodily harm year and a half ago when Getsadze was a lawmaker.
Getsadze was UNM majoritarian MP from Zestaponi before the parliamentary elections last month and was elected as head (gamgebeli) of Zestaponi municipality by a local council (Sakrebulo) at its chaotic session on November 2 during which supporters and several MPs from UNM and Georgian Dream, who were present at the session, where engaged in a heated confrontation about the election of municipality head. ...
UNM condemned Getsadze’s arrest as part of “ongoing political retribution” by the new government. “This is a clear sign that a massive attack is underway against local self-governance bodies, which are not controlled by the Georgian Dream,” Giorgi Gabashvili, a senior UNM lawmaker, said. He said that heads of various municipalities in the provinces were “pressured” by the authorities to resign otherwise threatened with legal proceedings including through launch of financial probe.
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| 29 Oct. '12 | US-Präsident Obama's Brief der Gratulation an Premierminister Ivanishvili
... “The election was a historic milestone for your country and demonstrated to the world that Georgia has become a vibrant democracy,” the letter reads. “Your government now inherits the task of moving forward to solidify and advance Georgia's democratic and economic reforms. This will require the government, parliament, and presidency to move past the contentious election and transition period and work together constructively to pursue policies that are in the best interest of all Georgian citizens. I understand from Ambassador Norland that this is your preferred approach, and in this you have our continued support.” ...
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| 25 Oct. '12 | Ivanishvili bestätigt als Premierminister
Das Parlament bestätigte am 25.10. Bidzina Ivanishvili als Georgien’s Premierminister mit 88 zu 54 Stimmen. Mit dem gleichen Votum bestätigte das Parliament Ivanishvili’s Kabinett und sein Programm. ... Programm (PDF-Georgisch, PDF-Georgian).
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| 13 Oct. '12 | UNM-Kandidat zieht sich zurück aus der Wahl um das Direktmandat in Khashuri
... Sergo Kitiashvili of the United National Movement (UNM) said on October 13, that he was withdrawing from the race because of “pressure” and “aggression” exerted on his campaign staffers and local election commission officials by his rival candidate from the Georgian Dream Valery Gelashvili and his supporters. Gelashvili’s campaign staff denied the allegation. ...
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| 10 Oct. '12 | Zu drei Direktmandaten: CEC legt Wahlwiederholung in sieben Bezirken fest
Repeat polls will be held in five precincts of Khashuri single-mandate constituency in Shida Kartli region; these are precincts No.3; No.8; No.10; No.45 and No.46. Sergo Kitiashvili of the United National Movement (UNM) and Georgian Dream’s candidate Valery Gelashvili are key contenders in the Khashuri constituency.
Repeat elections will also be held in precinct No.5 of Signagi single-mandate constituency in Kakheti region, where ex-head of State Audit Agency Levan Bezhuashvili of UNM and Georgian Dream’s Gela Gelashvili are running.
Repeat polls will also be held in precinct No.4 of Gori single-mandate constituency where UNM’s Giorgi Tatishvili and Georgian Dream's Malkhaz Vakhtangashvili are two major contenders.
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| 10 Oct. '12 | Tbilisi-Stadtverwaltung wird für "notwendige Fälle" seinen eigenen Sicherheitsdienst für öffentliche Einrichtungen aufbauen
... Funds for the operation of the new service will be allocated from the Tbilisi budget, which requires approval from the 50-member Tbilisi City Council, where 36 seats are currently occupied by members from President Saakashvili’s United National Movement (UNM) party. The new service will be made up of seven units; among them are: rapid reaction unit; as well as separate units for providing security to Tbilisi municipality’s various facilities and administrative buildings, parks and gardens. ...
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| 14 Sep. '12 | EUMM-Mandat verlängert
Mandat wurde bis 14.09.2013 verlängert. EU-Beobachtermission (EUMM), die nach dem Georgienkrieg im August 2008 eingesetzt wurde, um den Waffenstillstand zu beobachten, hat ungefähr 200 unbewaffnete Beobachter in Georgien. 20.9 Mio. Euro wurden für die Mission in den nächsten zwölf Monaten bereitgestellt. ...
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| 12 Sep. '12 | US-Mission äußert sich Georgien's anstehenden Wahlen
- ‘Elections critical to advancing Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic aspirations’;
- ‘Despite shortcomings, campaign is competitive’;
- ‘We strongly support extension of must-carry rules’;
- ‘We have expectation that election day and its aftermath will be peacefully’;
- Calls to parties ‘to work to ensure that the Georgian people judge the elections as free and fair’ ...
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| 12 Sep. '12 | OSCE-Wahlbeobachter legen Zwischenbericht vor
Campaign environment ahead of the October 1 parliamentary election “is polarized” and characterized by “frequent public exchanges of accusations and allegations among political adversaries” ... |
| 7 Sep. '12 | Liste der Kandidaten für Direktmandate
... Ruling party United National Movement and Georgian Dream opposition coalition are the only political groups, which have nominated their candidates in all of the 73 constituencies across the country. Free Georgia, led by Kakha Kukava, has its candidates in 64 constituencies; Christian-Democratic Movement – 61; Labor Party – 58; New Rights – 54. There are only four independent candidates.
77 seats in 150-member Parliament will be allocated under the proportional, party-list system among those parties and election blocs, which will clear 5% threshold, and remaining 73 seats will go to majoritarian MPs elected in single-mandate constituencies. ...
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| 8 Aug. '12 | Präsident Saakashvili greift Ivanishvili an wegen groben Fehlern in der Darstellung in seinem TV-Sender anläßlich des Jahrestages des Georgienkrieges
- ‘Only an idiot can ask a question: who started this war’;
- ‘Putin’s remarks are admission of guilt’;
- Saakashvili to Ivanishvili: ‘Your patron Putin himself said today that he started the war’
President Saakashvili seized upon Bidzina Ivanishvili-funded television station’s August war-related gaffe and said that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin was “patron” of the Georgian Dream opposition coalition leader and “his slaves”.
When reporting about the August war anniversary on August 8 and giving a background information about those events, a newscaster of the Channel 9 TV station’s noon news bulletin read out a text from one of the Georgian news agencies, saying: “Military hostilities were launched on August 7, 2008 between Ossetian separatists, backed by the Russian troops, and the Georgian army. Russia, which legally brought into the region its army units and military hardware, formally engaged in the war on August 8.”
In its 3pm news bulletin the television station apologized for reporting that Russia deployed troops legally, blaming mistake on a news agency, whose text a newscaster was reading. The news agency, GHN, said it made a mistake by not putting the word legally in scare quotes.
“Channel 9’s newsroom apologizes for reading out a text prepared by a news agency without verifying and checking it. At the same time the Channel 9 wants to specify that it does not share such formulation of the text,” a newscaster of TV station’s news bulletin announced.
Channel 9 was not the only TV station which read out this text; Imedi TV’s journalist used the same text, saying that Russian troops were deployed “legally”, while delivering live report in Imedi TV’s 11am news bulletin on August 7. Imedi TV is co-owned by Saakashvili’s ally and former economy minister Giorgi Arveladze.
Speaking in the Black Sea port of Poti, which was one of the targets of Russia’s air strikes during the August war four years ago, President Saakashvili said later on August 8: “This morning one of the political party’s television channel announced that Russian forces… were completely legally operating on the Georgian territory.”
“We are a democratic state and they can think whatever they want; they can say whatever they want, no matter how horrible and disgusting it might be,” Saakashvili said. “But shouldn’t you have at least slight of decency not to say something like this on the day when we all should be paying respect to our fallen compatriots? These people have not even a slight sense of solidarity.”
“Not a single law bans to speak and think this way, but not a single law bans us to express what we think about these people,” he continued.
“One thing is to hate you government and it’s another issue to justify aggression against your own country and to justify an attempt of conquering and destroying your country.”
He then continued by speaking about the August 8 remarks of Russian President Vladimir Putin, calling them “admission of guilt.” Putin said that the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces had drawn up a plan of repelling Tbilisi’s possible attack on South Ossetia more than a year before the August, 2008 war and in addition was also training South Ossetian militias as part of this plan.
“But here is the biggest paradox – today, the major initiator and culprit of [the August, 2008] war, Vladimir Putin, absolutely explicitly stated that for several years he had been planning and training armed groups within our sovereign, independent territory; that is a classical legal definition of an international aggression,” Saakashvili said.
“He [Putin] himself made this admission and when this man states: ‘Yes, I did it, I did it and I’m proud of that’, there are Georgian politicians and their [media] outlets, funded with Russian money, which are sowing uncertainty and confusion about this issue and asking one and the same idiotic question – no one but an idiot will ask this question – ‘who started this war?’.”
“I want to address these people, this man [Ivanishvili] and his slaves: your patron Putin himself said today that he started the war and he’s proud of that; maybe you will now revise your versions about this issue and fit [your versions] to what Putin himself has said,” Saakashvili said.
“This situation now looks like when an offender admits committing a crime… but [the offender]-financed lawyer still says: ‘No, no, that’s not what you think’,” Saakashvili said. “I want to address these people: should not be there a difference between Putin and you? He is Putin and you are Georgians. How can there be uncertainty and confusion about who bombed our homes and our towns?”
Also on August 8 the Georgian Foreign Ministry released a statement saying that Putin’s “open admission of the long-term, pre-meditated nature of the 2008 invasion offers critical insight into the conflict.”
“His statements confirm Georgia's long-standing position that Russia's armed incursion into Georgia in August 2008 constituted a premeditated act of aggression against a sovereign nation,” the Georgian Foreign Ministry said. "Based on today's statement, the Georgian government calls upon the international community to continue to pressure Russia to withdraw its occupying forces from Georgia and to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors."
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| 25 Jul. '12 | Regierungspartei in Führung in bekanntgewordenen Umfragen von US-Institut IRI
A recent public opinion poll, commissioned by the U.S. International Republican Institute (IRI) and leaked to the media, shows ruling United National Movement (UNM) party in lead with 43%, followed by Bidzina Ivanishvili-led Georgian Dream opposition coalition with 24% and Christian-Democratic Movement (CDM) with 7%, the Georgian media sources reported. ...
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| 11 Jul. '12 | Georgien möchte Mitgliedsperspektive für EU
Präsident Saakashvili erklärte, dass Europa Georgien’s “Identität” sei unddrückte die hoffung aus, dass der Gipfel der östl. Partnerschaft in Vilnius 2013 eine Mitgliedsperspektive gebe. ... |
| 11 Jul. '12 | Premierminister Merabishvili's Anmerkungen zur Person Ivanishvili
.... “I can say one thing about batoni [a Georgian polite form of addressing a man] Bidzina: I do not know him as a politician. I know him very well as a person, who has been carrying out charitable activities for years; moreover, I was meeting him very often and I was assisting him in his [charitable] activities; I was helping him in implementing his charitable work more effectively,” PM Merabishvili said in an interview with the Tbilisi-based Maestro TV. ...
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| 3 Jul. '12 | Umbesetztes Kabinett benannt
Bacho Akhalaia, who has been defense minister for past three years, will become interior minister, replacing Vano Merabishvili, who will now become PM after more than seven years of serving as interior minister.
Education Minister Dimitri Shashkin will replace Akhalaia on the post of Defense Minister.
Khatia Dekanoidze, former rector of the police academy, who took over education ministry’s center in charge of nationwide university exams a month ago after a controversial dismissal of the center’s former head, will replace Shashkin on the post of Education Minister.
Dali Khomeriki, who has served in the Tbilisi-based exiled Abkhaz government as an education minister, will replace Koba Subeliani on the post of minister in charge of IDPs.
Other ministers remain unaffected by the cabinet reshuffle.
The reshuffle will also see introduction of a new post – Minister for Employment, which will be held by Paata Trapaidze, a chief executive of construction firm Caucasus Road Project Ltd.
The reshuffled cabinet and its new program have been submitted to the Parliament for approval, President Saakashvili’s spokesperson, Manana Manjgaladze, said on July 3.
Parliament will hold a session to approve the new cabinet on July 4.
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| 1 Jul. '12 | Ivanishvili kommentiert Merabishvili's Ernennung
Naming Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili as new PM “will not save these authorities”, leader of opposition Georgian Dream coalition Bidzina Ivanishvili said on July 1 and also added that positive impression he initially had about Merabishvili was now fading away.
“No matter what kind of replacements they make in the government… nothing new will come out of it,” he told reporters while visiting mountainous Kazbegi district few hours before his campaign rally in the town of Mtskheta on Sunday. “They’ve done it probably in order to reinforce police violence against the people. But no reshuffle of the government will save these authorities.”
“Instead of reshuffles, they should better return back into legal framework and stand in service of the people,” he said.
Asked if his opinion about Merabishvili has changed since October, when he described the former interior minister as “a good manager with many positive traits”, Ivanishvili responded: “This opinion of mine about [Merabishvili] is gradually fading away, because I do not see him taking adequate decisions.”
In his lengthy open letter in October about his decision to go into politics, Ivanishvili described Merabishvili as “a good manager, good organizer and a person with many positive traits.”
“Merabishvili managed, through much diligence, to create a functional system in the form of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Patrol Police or other power-wielding structures, if stripped of their punishing functions, could play a quite useful role for society. Merabishvili often impressed me with his competence in economical affairs,” Ivanishvili wrote in his October 12, 2011 open letter.
Ivanishvili told journalists on July 1, that his advice to Merabishvili and others in the government would be “to return to common sense and to obey law and the will of the people.”
“They should not further burn bridges because no much time is left for them; they should behave in a way that would allow them to live in their own country,” he added.
In separate remarks on the same issue later on July 1, Ivanishvili said it was not yet clear whether it was a promotion for Merabishvili or his sidelining from the powerful ministry of internal affairs. He also said it would become clearer after the composition of the new government would be named.
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| 30 Jun. '12 | Stellv. NATO-Generalsekretär Alexander Vershbow äußert sich zu den Beziehungen zu Georgien
Georgia advances “steadily” towards NATO membership and made “remarkable progress”, but there is “still plenty of work to be done,” said Alexander Vershbow, NATO’s Deputy Secretary General, who paid a two-day visit to Georgia.
Speaking at a Georgia Defence and Security Conference in Black Sea resort of Batumi on June 29, Vershbow said that “NATO is based on shared values and principles – freedom, democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.”
“Any country that hopes to become a member of NATO must be fully committed to those same values and principles. NATO Allies have been pleased to see a very positive dynamic in Georgia’s democratic development. Building strong democratic institutions is a vital part of this development,” he said.
“But here too more needs to be done,” said NATO’s Deputy Secretary General and former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense. “In particular, it is essential that there be an open and transparent political process, and level playing field for all players, with equal access to the media, and clear rules of the road applied consistently to all.”
“This will be one of the keys to Georgia’s success in realizing its membership aspirations. And so we expect the parliamentary elections this year, and the Presidential elections next year, to be free, fair and inclusive,” Vershbow added.
He said that Georgia’s significant contribution to NATO-led Afghan operation, as well as its participation in major meetings on sideline of NATO Chicago Summit this year was “powerful demonstration of just how deep this country’s partnership with the Alliance has become.
“And it was also a clear demonstration of how Georgia has successfully transformed itself from being a security consumer to being a valuable security provider, as it advances steadily toward its declared goal of NATO membership,” Vershbow said.
He said that it was of “crucial” importance “to strengthen the capacity and effectiveness of institutions, and to further enhance the interoperability of Georgia’s military forces with those of the Alliance.”
Reiterating NATO’s open door policy, Vershbow said that Georgia “is one of NATO’s strongest security partners”, which “is well on its way to becoming a member of our Alliance.”
“Allies have not yet decided when that will happen, but NATO will continue to support your efforts to make that aspiration a reality,” he said.
He also reiterated NATO’s support to Georgia’s territorial integrity, saying that the Allies “will not recognise the so-called independence of Georgia’s regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia” and called on Russia to reciprocate Georgia’s unilateral non-use of force pledge.
“At the same time, NATO will also look to improve its own relations with Russia, because NATO and Russia are both key players in the security of this continent and the entire Euro-Atlantic area,” Vershbow said.
During his visit to Georgia on June 28-29, the NATO Deputy Secretary General met with Georgian Defense Minister Bacho Akhalaia; Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili; Secretary of National Security Council Giga Bokeria; State Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration Giorgi Baramidze and Parliamentary Chairman Davit Bakradze, as well as representatives of opposition parties.
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| 27 Jun. '12 | Interview mit Außenminister Vashadze
- 'Military action against Iran will increase threat of Russian military action against Georgia';
- 'Differences of opinion with Iran are not a ground for worsening our relations';
- 'Threat of Kavkaz-2012 drills being used by Russia against S.Caucasus states very real';
- 'Western partners take our concerns about Kavkaz-2012 drills seriously';
- 'It might be that MAP will have formal, rather than substantive significance';
- 'We are consulting with EU on participation in CSDP missions';
- 'Capacities of our foreign policy is growing';
- 'Our successes led us to diversify our foreign policy interests';
- ’We are sure UNGA resolution on IDPs will almost become consensual';
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| 13 May. '12 | Fünf Menschen sterben bei Flut in Tbilisi / Ortachala
Schwerer Regen - bis zu 93mm - verwandelte eine kleine Straße in Ortachala in einen Sturzbach. Auch andere Stadtteile in Tbilisi sowie Dusheti und die Regionen Lagodekhi and Akhmeta in Ostgeorgien waren betroffen.
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| 3 May. '12 | Interview mit dem EUMM-Chef Andrzej Tyszkiewicz
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Q.: The Russian Federation is refusing to reciprocate Georgia’s unilateral non-use of force pledge, saying that it is not a party to the conflict. Your predecessor, Ambassador Hansjörg Haber, has once described Moscow’s position as “clearly absurd”; do you agree with that?
A.: I can only reiterate the standpoint of the European Union on this: the non-use of force pledge has to be entered into by those states recognized by the international community that are obligated under the Six Point Agreement namely Georgia and the Russian Federation.
Q.: Despite having a relevant mandate, EUMM is not able to access the breakaway regions for regular monitoring; as far as we know, there has been at least one instance when EU monitors were allowed to cross into the breakaway regions for a fact-finding visit to inspect particular incident site. How many such visits have been conducted by EUMM? Do you see it feasible to make such visits on regular bases?
A.: It is indeed unfortunate that we are unable to gain regular access to the territories of Abkhazia or South Ossetia. In the framework of fact finding visits, which have been agreed upon during the international discussions in Geneva, we have been invited a few times to Abkhazia and South Ossetia. We would very much value the opportunity to have been able to carry out more fact finding visits, particularly regarding the recent violent incidents in Gali district - it would certainly have helped in defusing tensions and accusations and in the gathering of information about reported incidents. However, it must be stressed that when we do carry out such fact-finding visits we will continue to provide a completely impartial view of our findings.
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| 2 May. '12 | Präsident Saakashvili: 'Gibt mir zwei, drei, vier weitere Jahre'
President Saakashvili told an audience gathered in a theater in Kutaisi on May 2 to give him “two, three four more years” and he would turn previously famous spa resort of Tskaltubo in western Georgia into the best place in Europe.
“Tskaltubo was the best place in the entire former Soviet Union. I guarantee you: give me two, three, four more years and you will see that I will turn it into the best place in the entire Europe,” Saakashvili said in a speech, which was aired live by Rustavi 2 TV.
Saakashvili’s second and final term in office expires in late 2013; he, however, can become prime minister, whose authority will significantly increase after the new constitution goes into force following the 2013 presidential election. ...
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| 24 Apr. '12 | Bemerkungen zum 'armen. Genozid' löst Zwischenfall im Parlament aus
As part of routine statements, usually made by MPs during sessions on Tuesdays, MP Jondi Bagaturia from the opposition parliamentary faction, Unity for Justice, took the floor from the Parliament’s rostrum to speak of various issues and one of the issues he raised was last year’s decision by the Georgian Parliament to recognize 19th century massacre and deportations of Circassians by the Tsarist Russia in the northwest Caucasus as genocide. He recalled this decision and criticized it in the context of requests from Georgia’s Armenian community to recognize the massacre of Armenians in Ottoman Empire as genocide – such appeals are usually made almost every year in April, when the anniversary of those tragic events are marked.
“When you recognized Circassians’ genocide just for the purpose of a one-day PR show, we [warned] you not to do that, because we would have nothing to tell to our Armenian citizens. I wonder what are you going to tell these people now? These are our citizens; these are our compatriots; you [referring to ruling party MPs] should bear responsibility for that,” MP Bagaturia said. ...
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| 21 Apr. '12 | Ivanishvili's politische Partei startet mit Eröffnungskongress in Tbilisi
Parteiname: "ქართული ოცნება – დემოკრატიული საქართველოს“ - Georgischer Traum - Demokratisches Georgien" - "Georgian Dream–Democratic Georgia"
Ivanishvili, who presented core team of his party in February, has no right to personally found or chair a political party in Georgia as he is a French citizen and planned constitutional amendment, granting him political rights without having a Georgian passport, has yet to be passed by the Parliament.
For that reason the party elected as its interim, nominal chairperson Manana Kobakhidze, a lawyer who previously served as a chair of the Tbilisi-based human rights advocacy organization Article 42 of the Constitution. ...
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| 20 Apr. '12 | Präsident Saakashvili: 'Lasst uns Lavrov als Touristvertriebsmann rekrutieren, er wirbt gut für Georgien'
By advising its citizens not to travel to Georgia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in fact advertising Georgia and deserves “a tourist agent’s salary” from Tbilisi, President Saakashvili said on April 19.
“Hotels are full of Russian tourists. More Lavrov advises [Russians] not to travel to Georgia, the more [Russians] are arriving. Maybe we should recruit Lavrov as a tourist agent, shouldn’t we?” Saakashvili told Education Minister Dimitri Shashkin jokingly when visiting a new vocational school in Kobuleti on April 19. “Planes are packed by Russians; they all are aware of Lavrov’s statements, but they are coming into Georgia with even more pleasure. So give Lavrov a travel agent’s salary; he is making a good advertisement for Georgia.” ...
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19 Mar. '12 | Parteienfinazierungsgesetz wird überarbeitet - Amendments to narrow circle of entities falling under the law’s regulations; - Wording “directly or indirectly related” to be removed; - Fines imposed by the state audit agency will be reduced; - 0.2% of GDP cap on donations/spending to be amended; - Courts to have more say over state audit agency’s decisions; |
13 Mar. '12 | Präsident Saakashvili trifft US-Vertreter Andrew C. Weber für nukleare und biologische Verteidigungsprogramme in Tbilisi ... “Deepening relations and cooperation between Georgia and the United States was the main topic of discussion,” the Georgian President’s administration said. “They also discussed the prospects of developing a Georgian American Central Public Healthcare Referral Laboratory for Georgia and for the region in general. It was also noted that, the laboratory has already been created and the first studies will begin in the near future. American military researchers will work at the lab within the scope of a Georgian-American partnership.” ... |
9 Mar. '12 | NATO-Gesandter Appathurai: Georgien rückt näher an NATO heran, gleich was andere Parteien sagen Russia's leadership "can say what it wants", but it's NATO allies which decide on membership and "step-by-step" Georgia is getting closer to the Alliance "regardless of what other parties might say," James Appathurai, NATO Secretary General’s Special Representative for the Caucasus and Central Asia, said. The NATO "took a decision in Bucharest [in 2008] that Georgia will become a NATO member if it still wants to and when it meets the standards of course," he said in an interview with the Georgian news magazine Tabula. "[Georgia] still wants to and based on popular support in Georgia I expect that to stay the same and Georgia is working to meet the standards. We have not changed our view. We continue to work towards that step when Georgia will become a NATO member and Georgia is taking the steps as well and in fact, as the Secretary General said, we are getting closer together." ... |
7 Mar. '12 | Präsident Saakashvili hält Ansprache vor dem aserbaidschan. Parlament - georg.-aserbaidschan. ‘Allianz ist nicht gegen irgendjemanden gerichtet’ - ‘Ich bin weit davon entfernt, gegen russ. nationale Interessen feindselig zu sein’ - ‘Ich träume von einer stolzen, stabilen russ. Föderation’ - ‘Russ. Patrioten, welche Staatsbürger nicht auf unnötige Schlachtfelder schicken, sind nicht unsere Feinde’ |
2 Mar. '12 | Minenlizens verkauft für 110.5 Mio. GEL Der Käufer: Mining Investments LLC gehört vollständig Alvydas Brusokas, einem litauischen Staatsangehörigen, der in St. Petersburg, Russland, lebt. ... |
31 Jan. '12 | US-Präsident Obama trifft Präsident Saakashvili im Oval Office - ‘Georgia should be extraordinarily proud of the progress it made’; - ‘Anticipating fair and free elections’; - ‘Formal transfer of power will solidify reforms’; - Exploring ‘the possibility of a free trade agreement’ with Georgia; - ‘Georgia sets model of democracy for the region as a whole’; - ‘Georgia responsible player on the world scene’; |
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