Showing posts with label Davit Bakradze. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Davit Bakradze. Show all posts

Friday, May 15, 2009

EURASIANET: GEORGIA: NO BREAKTHROUGH IN SAAKASHVILI-OPPOSITION TALKS (eurasianet.org)

After a month of street demonstrations during which protesters have agitated for President Mikheil Saakashvili’s resignation, the Georgian leader and opposition envoys sat down for talks on May 11. The discussions did not appear to resolve any of the issues dividing the two sides.

The opposition was represented by Levan Gachechiladze, a former presidential candidate; Irakli Alasania, leader of the Alliance for Georgia coalition; Salome Zourabishvili, leader of the Georgia’s Way Party; and Kakha Shartava, leader of the National Forum.

Aside from Saakashvili, the government’s side included Parliamentary Chairperson Davit Bakradze, parliamentary majority leader Petre Tsiskarishvili, parliamentarian Giorgi Gabashvili and Minister for Corrections and Legal Assistance Dimitri Shashkin.

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Monday, April 13, 2009

OPPOSITION: Opposition Sets Tents at President’s Residence (civil.ge)

Can find the contemporary unity of different oppostional parties a common programm in a tent camp before the parliament ... ? Or is it only a youth project like a adventure trip to break out from the normal daily life ? What is the aim of this political movement ? Is it a political spectacle ?

The opposition activists and their leaders installed several tents outside the presidential residence on Monday in an attempt to mount pressure on the authorities.

“We will put more tents in other places as well,” Levan Gachechiladze, one of the opposition leaders, said after personally installing one of the tents.

“This is a peacefully expression of the citizens’ will,” Irakli Alasania, leader of opposition Alliance for Georgia, who was also there, said.

Nino Burjanadze, the leader of Democratic Movement-United Georgia, said she hoped the President would “hear people’s demand from here.”

Meanwhile, Davit Bakradze, the parliamentary chairman, told reporters after meeting with a group of civil society representatives and political analysts, including those who are the authorities’ critics, that the authorities could consider possibility of a coalition government.

He, however, also said that the coalition government required “confidence between the political forces and a normal political dialogue.”

Mamuka Katsitadze of the New Rights Party, part of Alliance for Georgia, said that the opposition was not even considering such option.

And Eka Beselia of the Movement for United Georgia, a party founded by ex-defense minister, Irakli Okruashvili, told protesters outside the Parliament: “No posts, not taking seats in the government; the demand about resignation of Saakashvili has no alternative.”


source: civil.ge

Sunday, March 08, 2009

RELATION: Regional Relations: Serious Problems Facing Armenians in Georgia (armenianow.com)

A commentary by Jirair Haratunian

http://www.aaainc.org Published: 06 March, 2009

Two important visitors from Georgia have just completed visits to Yerevan where they publicly expressed assurances of Tbilisi’s commitment to good neighborly relations with Armenia. The first, Georgian Foreign Minister Grigol Vashadze told inquiring journalists that there was no persecution or discrimination of Armenians living in Georgia. The Foreign Minister also told journalists that the economic problems of the majority Armenian population in the Javakh region were no different from problems elsewhere in Georgia. He added that the government of Georgia was anxious to improve conditions and integrate the citizens and economy of Javakh with the rest of Georgia. Sentiments regarding good relations between Armenia and Georgia were also voiced by the second visitor, Chairman of Parliament of Georgia Davit Bakradze.

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