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2019-12-31 Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia's Message for the New Year
Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia's Message for the New Year.
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2019-12-30 Through December 27, 2019, Georgia hosted 9.3 million international visitors
As Head of the Georgian National Tourism Administration Mariam Kvrivishvili stated at today's presentation of the Tourism Administration's 2019 report, through December 27, 2019, Georgia hosted 9.3 million international visitors, 7.1% up year-over-year.
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2019-12-30 Executive Government Meeting held on December 30, 2019
Today's Government meeting at the Administration of the Government was held under the chairmanship of Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia. The Cabinet discussed 18 issues on its meeting agenda.
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2019-12-28 Secretary of State of the Holy See Congratulates Prime Minister on the Release of Doctor Vazha Gaprindashvili
We appreciate the friendly relations between Georgia and the Holy See, and we are committed to deepening our cooperation, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia stated during today's meeting with Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See Pietro Parolin.
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2019-12-28 Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia’s Advisor: Vazha Gaprindashvili’s release is a result of state structures’ coordinated efforts
All our international friends and institutions without exception have been involved, and it is through their efforts and the coordinated work of state structures that we have this result, the Prime Minister's Foreign Affairs Advisor and Spokesperson Irakli Chikovani stated.
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2019-12-27 “Success of Universal Healthcare is a tremendous achievement of this country and each citizen, binding us to preserve it with any effort it takes” states Prime Minister of Georgia
"We are partners and allies in the successful development of the Universal healthcare system in the country; except for patients, we will fail to explain to anyone better than you what success and benefits have been brought by the Universal Healthcare Program" noted Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia at a meeting with healthcare service providers.
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2019-12-27 Government Administration Hosts OGP Georgia Forum
Government Administration of Georgia hosted an Open Government Partnership (OGP) Georgia Forum in the capacity of a national coordination institution.
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2019-12-25 Inter-Agency Work-Group Defines Tier One Tasks to be Solved in the Most Efficient Manner
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia will have a Division for Juvenile Affairs covering Tbilisi; Ministry of Health of Georgia will develop a concrete plan to address the shortage of social workers; Ministry of Education of Georgia along with the Human Rights Secretariat of the Government Administration of Georgia will create a database of psychologists; Ministry of Justice of Georgia will come up with a legislative proposal on the mandatory engagement of attorneys in cases involving juvenile witnesses. All of these agreements have been reached at the Inter-Agency Work-Group Meeting held today at the Government Administration under the management of Natia Mezvrishvili, Head of Government Administration.
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2019-12-25 Giorgi Gakharia: Immeasurable is the Patriarch’s merit to the country, in the cause of building churches, promoting education, and keeping peace in the country
Immeasurable is the Patriarch's merit to the country, and his contribution to the cause of building churches, promoting education, and keeping peace and tranquility in the country, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia stated after today's Divine Liturgy celebrating the anniversary of the Patriarch's enthronement in the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral.
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2019-12-24 Prime Minister of Georgia Meets President of SOCAR
Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia met Rovnag Abdullayev, President of SOCAR – State Oil Company of Azerbaijan today.
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2019-12-24 Today, Prime Minister's Advisor on Human Rights and Gender Equality - Lela Akiashvili held a working meeting with human rights, anti-discrimination, and equality organizations
Today, Prime Minister's Advisor on Human Rights and Gender Equality - Lela Akiashvili held a working meeting with human rights, anti-discrimination, and equality organizations.
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2019-12-23 Georgian Prime Minister and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Discuss Joint Regional Project
As it was pointed out during today's meeting between Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia and Foreign Affairs Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov, the Georgia-Azerbaijan Intergovernmental Economic Commission will resume its meeting next year.
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2019-12-23 Georgian Prime Minister and Turkish Foreign Minister Discuss Deeper Strategic Partnership between the Two Countries
We appreciate our special relations with Turkey, and we welcome deeper strategic partnership, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia stated during today's meeting with Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey.
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2019-12-23 Action Plan for Addressing Challenges at Ski Resorts in Winter Get Developed as Instructed by the Prime Minister of Georgia
Action Plan has been developed for addressing challenges at ski resorts in the winter season as instructed by Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia. Concrete proposals have thus been presented by the Head of Coordination Team, composed of officials from respective institutions, to the Head of Government of Georgia with an aim of solving problematic issues.
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2019-12-22 Prime Minister of Georgia Wishes Happy Hanukkah to Jewish People
Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia has lit the first candle of Hannukkah at the Great Synagogue of Tbilisi to congratulate the holiday to the Jewish people and wish them peace.
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2019-12-20 Prime Minister of Georgia Meets Outgoing Ambassador of Israel to Georgia
Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia held a farewell meeting with H.E. Shabtai Tsur, Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary of Israel to Georgia today.
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2019-12-19 Public Institutions of Georgia Get Instructed to Produce a Report on the Problems Existing in the Systems along with Concrete Solutions within a Week
"I am very sad that a tragic event occurring several days ago accelerated our systemic approach to current drawbacks in parallel with all those positive steps that have been taken by us" stated Natia Mezvrishvili, Head of Government Administration of Georgia at an Inter-Agency Work-Group Meeting held today at the Government Administration.
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2019-12-19 Executive Government Meeting held on December 19, 2019
Today's Government meeting at the Administration of the Government was held under the chairmanship of Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia. The Cabinet discussed 13 issues on its meeting agenda.
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2019-12-19 “Today is the time of concrete steps, rather than tragic developments be politicized” states Prime Minister of Georgia
"Today is the time of concrete steps, rather than tragic developments be politicized" stated Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia at a regular Executive Government Meeting today.
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2019-12-18 Statement by the Administration of the Government
Five persons have expressed willingness to run for vacant member position of the Georgian National Communication Commission.
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2019-12-18 Prime Minister’s Statement
I express my deepest sorrow over the tragic death of 15-year-old Luka Siradze.
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2019-12-17 “Strategic partnership between Georgia and USA has never been so high. Partners expect much more as we gain more results” states Prime Minister of Georgia
“Strategic partnership between Georgia and USA has never been so high. Partners expect much more as we gain more results” stated Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia in relation with a letter of US Congressmen.
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2019-12-17 Prime Minister Addresses Conference of Ambassadors 2019
"Today, 20 years after the accession, Georgia is chairing the Council of Europe. Hence, we should do our best to use this platform productively and effectively" stated Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia in his address to the Conference of Ambassadors.
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2019-12-13 Prime Minister’s Official Visit to Ukraine
On December 12-13, the Prime Minister of Georgia held an official visit to Ukraine.
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2019-12-13 “Establishment of Georgia-Ukraine Strategic Cooperation Council was the foremost result of the visit in Ukraine” states Prime Minister of Georgia
"We confirm that Ukraine is our strategic partner and also evidence that we can better fight with challenges together" noted Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia when summarizing his visit to Ukraine for journalists today.
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2019-12-13 Prime Minister of Georgia Pays Tribute to Heroes while in Ukraine with Official Visit
Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia paid tribute to the memory of heroes within the scope of his Official Visit to Ukraine today.
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2019-12-13 Prime Ministers of Georgia and Ukraine Discuss Common European Perspective and Intensification of Economic Cooperation
"Our cooperation, based on economy, strategic partnership and security, predominantly aims to ensure wellbeing of our citizens and to let our countries remain within the European space" stated Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia at a meeting with Oleksiy Honcharuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine today.
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2019-12-13 Prime Minister of Georgia and President of Ukraine Sign an Agreement on Establishment of a High-Level Strategic Council
Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia met with Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine today.
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2019-12-13 Giorgi Gakharia: In our strategic partnership, we must aspire to Europe together, and do everything for Georgia and Ukraine to become parts of the European political space
Together, in our strategic partnership, we must aspire to Europe and do everything for Georgia and Ukraine to become parts of the European political space, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia stated during today's meeting with Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Dmytro Razumkov.
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2019-12-12 As part of the Prime Minister’s visit, documents have been signed to create an economic zone between the GUAM member states, and to promote the achievement of FTAs
As part of the Georgian Prime Minister's visit to Ukraine, documents were signed after the GUAM Plenary Session to create a common economic zone between the organization's member states, and to foster the achievement of free trade agreements.
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2019-12-12 ''Georgia remains committed to its position of resolving all and every conflict on the territory of Georgia solely through a peaceful manner'' states Prime Minister of Georgia
"Territorial integrity is the main challenge facing our countries. I expressed gratitude to my colleagues for their support demonstrated towards the territorial integrity of Georgia and reiterated that Georgia remains committed to its position of resolving all and every conflict on the territory of Georgia solely through a peaceful manner' stated Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia at a Joint Press Briefing held after a Plenary Meeting of GUAM Heads of States.
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2019-12-12 Prime Minister of Georgia Meets President of Ukraine along with Other GUAM Heads of States
Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia met with Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine along with other GUAM Heads of States today.
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2019-12-12 Giorgi Gakharia Leaves on an Official Visit to Ukraine
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2019-12-11 “Most significant of all is to make sure that highlanders get decent living conditions in high terrain regions” states Prime Minister of Georgia
"I wish to pledge with full responsibility that attention towards highlands, development of high terrain regions and highlanders will increase to make sure that we deliver upon our positive obligation and create decent living conditions for highlanders to live a decent life with pride and develop their households, raise their children in highlands" stated Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia at an event marking the Day of Highlands.
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2019-12-11 Giorgi Gakharia: Readiness of mountain resorts for the coming season, with all relevant components in place, is the key task
The readiness of mountain resorts for the coming season, with all relevant components in place, is the key task, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia stated during today's coordination meeting attended by Cabinet members and relevant senior officials.
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2019-12-11 Natia Mezvrishvili: Human Rights Council will be an effective and result-oriented Government-level coordinating mechanism
Next year, the Human Rights Council under the Prime Minister's chairmanship will have a renewed structure to work in four priority direction, with gender equality, children's rights, antidiscrimination policy implementation, and the rights of persons with disabilities as the key priorities.
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2019-12-09 Zurab Abashidze: The conference on the so-called center of Russian culture comes across as yet another political performance by the UNM
The organizers of today's conference did not find it necessary to invite us or hear us, and that makes us believe that we are dealing with yet another political performance by the National Movement, the Georgian Prime Minister's Special Representative for Relations with Russia Zurab Abashidze commented on the Center of Russian Culture-New Occupation Line in Tbilisi, a conference held today at Rooms Hotel.
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2019-12-09 Giorgi Gakharia: The main challenge is to create new jobs, and the key task of the Finance Ministry and the Government in general is to make sure there is strong business in the country to create new jobs
New jobs are the main challenge of our economy, and every state institution, the Ministry of Finance and others, are working on ensuring that there is strong business in the country, and that strong business creates new jobs, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia told the press after today's presentation of the Finance Ministry's report and VAT reform.
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2019-12-09 “Agriculture should become efficiently growing sector of the country, both in terms of exports and domestic consumption being met and import being substituted” states Prime Minister of Georgia
"Agriculture should become an efficiently growing sector of the country, both in terms of exports and domestic consumption being met, but primarily for import being substituted" stated Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia at a meeting held with the staff of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia today.
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2019-12-07 Prime Minister Meets So-Called Cardboard Town Population in Batumi
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, in the company of Chairman of the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara Tornike Rizhavadze, visited the population of so-called Cardboard Town in Batumi.
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2019-12-07 Giorgi Gakharia: There are no problems when it comes to citrus pricing and selling—most importantly, Adjara’s farmers are happy
Today, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia familiarized himself with the process of citrus export in Batumi.
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2019-12-07 Giorgi Gakharia: Opening of a Maritime Academy branch in Poti will enable youth to excel in a high-paid profession highly demanded internationally and to serve their country
In 2021, Poti will have its own Maritime Academy-financing for the project's implementation have been allocated on the Prime Minister's instruction.
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2019-12-07 Giorgi Gakharia: UEFA-standard stadium in Batumi is important not only for developing sports, but also for promoting tourism
In spring of 2020, Batumi will have a UEFA Category 4 stadium with 20,000 seats. The construction of the stadium, visited today by Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, is nearing completion.
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2019-12-05 “Agreement has been reached on the excise stamping of non-alcoholic beverages and Government of Georgia intends to continue work in the same manner as pursued so far” states Foreign Affairs Adviser and Press Speaker of the Prime Minister of Georgia
"Agreement has been reached on the excise stamping of non-alcoholic beverages and Government of Georgia intends to continue work in the same manner as pursued so far. Hence, it is a positive and commendable decision for businesses" announced Irakli Chikovani, Foreign Affairs Adviser and Press Speaker of the Prime Minister of Georgia.
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2019-12-03
"These youth may oppose each other today, but tomorrow they will need to build this country and whoever dares to instigate opposition between them will be charged with moral responsibility along with legal charges" noted Giorgi Gakharia, Prime Minister of Georgia while interacting with journalists today.
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2019-12-03 Giorgi Gakharia: Brand new labs of the Expert-Forensic Main Division meet modern challenges
The new building of the Expert-Forensic Main Division-and, above all else, its brand new labs-is crucially important for the streamlined functioning of the Interior Ministry and, importantly, for the effective management of the investigative component, Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia stated in his comment on the new building and laboratories of the Expert-Forensic Main Division of the Interior Ministry.
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2019-12-03 “Government Administration is working on the creation of a coordination mechanism envisaged in the UN Convention to be made available by end-December” states Natia Mezvrishvili
Natia Mezvrishvili, Head of Government Administration attended a conference marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities today.