TBILISI, DFWatch – The president of the former Soviet republic of Georgia says this fall’s parliamentary election will be an important exam and says “conducting the freest elections which have ever been conducted is a question of national security.”
Mikheil Saakashvili
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says his political force ‘has the resources to govern for many years and will never refuse this.’
The statement came during an annual speech to parliament Tuesday.
Giorgi Targamadze, leader of the Christian
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili claims that the Netherlands wants to copy Georgia’s health care system.
He said this during his annual speech to parliament on February 28.
Speaking about the system implemented in Georgia, he said new hospitals
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s president, Mikheil Saakashvili, said Tuesday night that Georgia will lift visa requirements for all Russians.
Saakashvili was holding his annual speech to parliament about the state of the nation.
“I have an new initiative to unilaterally
TBILISI, DFWatch – EU foreign ministers have issued a paper setting out to integrate Georgia more in the Union.
The paper is a broad review of relations between Georgia and the EU and the country’s security.
It notes that there has been progress in the Eastern
TBILISI, DFWatch – EU says parliamentary and presidential elections in Georgia should meet internationally recognized standards of democracy.
A statement published on the EU’s Council on the South Caucasus webpage says the EU acknowledges Georgia’s European
TBILISI, DFWatch – An opposition politician in the former Soviet republic of Georgia accuses the government of lying about when three servicemen died last week.
Salome Zourabichvili, Georgia’s former Foreign Minister, accuses the government of having postponed the sad
TBILISI, DFWatch – The European Union’s commissioner for trade issues, Karel de Gucht, will arrive in Georgia today on February 28 and will start negotiations with Georgia about a deep and comprehensive free trade agreement.
Moldova is also offered the same kind of
TBILISI, DFWatch – When Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili comes to parliament this evening to make his speech about the state of the nation, groups and opposition parties will be demonstrating outside.
The press office of the Free Georgia Party announced the
TBILISI, DFWatch – Georgia’s billionaire-backed opposition movement, Georgian Dream, is not going to reconsider the country’s participation in the ISAF operation in Afghanistan.
Press spokesperson Maya Pandzhikidze said this at a regular briefing on February 27.