Friday, December 5, 2025

Norland asks government to avoid vengeance

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From left to right: Georgia’s Patriarch Ilia II, the ambassador’s wife Mary Hartnett, and US Ambassador to Georgia Richard Norland. (US Embassy photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–US Ambassador to Georgia Richard Norland asks the Ivanishvili government to avoid vengeance as it seeks to prosecute many of the people who ran the country while President Mikheil Saakashvili held power.

“There was a need now to balance the desire for

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Saakashvili invites Ivanishvili to meeting

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President Mikheil Saakashvili talking to TV journalists. (Photo by the president’s administrations.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili says he wants to sit down with Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili to talk about how to solve a gridlocked power-sharing process.

“I think we should talk with the government about many issues, like relations with Russia,

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Ivanishvili reveals what he and Saakashvili talked about

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Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has lifted the veil on what was said in an unusual conversation between him and President Mikheil Saakashvili last month.

The two leaders, who are maneuvering a precarious power-sharing situation,

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Power-sharing talks continue in Georgia

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Davit Bakradze (left) and Davit Usupashvili. (President’s administration.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The two main political blocs in Georgia met Tuesday to try to agree on how to change the constitution, but without results.

Parliament Speaker Davit Usupashvili from the governing Georgian Dream coalition said he believes it is possible to bring

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Saakashvili says current events in Georgia are dangerous

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Štefan Füle (left), the EU’s Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy, and Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi Feb. 12. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says the current events in his country are dangerous and that he will meet regularly with the prime minister in the coming period.

“Now we should stand higher than our ambitions. We and the government should

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Press conference turned into TV debate

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From left to right: Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili, President Mikheil Saakashvili and former Speaker of Parliament Davit Bakradze. (President’s administration.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The president and the speaker of parliament Monday emerged after an hour-long meeting and agreed that it had been a productive one, although the only thing they agree on was that agreement is necessary on important issues.

Speaker of Parliament Davit

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