Friday, December 5, 2025

Georgian president rejects politically motivated pardons

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President Giorgi Margvelashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has rejected a call by his predecessor Mikheil Saakashvili that it is a test of ‘decency’ to pardon three former top government officials who are convicted of crimes committed while in office.

Saakashvili, who is now

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Georgian president visits EU, NATO tops in Brussels

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President Giorgi Margvelashvili (left) and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–EU is allocating 150,000 euros for Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili learned about this decision during his visit to Brussels during a meeting with EU’s neighborhood commissioner Johannes Hahn.

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Georgian government absent as president delivers annual speech

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President Giorgi Margvelashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–When the Georgian president held his state of the nation speech in parliament on Tuesday, the government and the prime minister were absent – again.

This is the second time the government has snubbed President Giorgi Margvelashvili. The same

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Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan launch geopolitically important pipeline project

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Ilham Aliyev, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Giorgi Margvelashvili. (Facebook.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The presidents of Georgia, Turkey and Azerbaijan have agreed to start construction of a natural gas pipeline which will bypass Russia and reduce Europe’s energy dependence on Russia.

The ceremony was held in Kars, a Turkish city near

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Saakashvili criticized for his Syria statement

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Giorgi Margvelashvili advises Saakashvili to stop damaging the country’s interests. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President of Georgia slammed his predecessor Mikheil Saakashvili, accusing him of manipulating with important and strategic issues of the country’s security just for his own interests.

Mikheil Saakashvili earlier in Monday criticized

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Georgian president vetoes surveillance bill, again

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President Giorgi Margvelashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The Georgian president has vetoed a surveillance bill which would have given the Interior Ministry control over access keys to eavesdropping on the communication of citizens.

President Giorgi Margvelashvili’s veto on Saturday is the second time

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Georgia's problem lack of trust in institutions, president says

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Giorgi Margvelashvili. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–President Giorgi Margvelashvili said in an address to parliament on Friday that he has warned that there would be problems if people continued to distrust the country’s institutions.

“During the recent year, I have repeatedly underlined

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