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5/3/2007 President Saakashvili awards medal of honour to students freed from Abkhaz custody I want to welcome you all!I welcome Iveri, Levan and Koba!Today we rescued these young people from separatist custody.I want to welcome our three young patriots - just yesterday they were little boys and now they are men. I want to praise the courage, sel...
4/30/2007 President Mikheil Saakashvili's address at the Vaziani military base on 30 April Welcome!Today Georgia is marking the 16th anniversary of the founding of its armed forces, which have been achieving great progress of late. Our troops are constantly prepared. The process of modernization - equipping and training them - is proceeding at ...
4/23/2007 President Saakashvili unveils five-point plan for South Ossetia at a Security Council meeting Welcome!The Security Council has discussed our proposal, which is based on the law being discussed in parliament concerning our peace plan for South Ossetia. I believe that the time has come for us to begin making concrete proposals and offers and also ta...
4/20/2007 President Mikheil Saakashvili's address at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly's 65th Rose-Roth seminar in Tbilisi on 19 April Welcome seminar participants!I am happy to see you here in Tbilisi, in Georgia's capital. We are also happy that Tbilisi is very quickly becoming an important centre for international forums and conferences. Tbilisi has traditionally been the centre of th...
4/17/2007 President SaakaShvili addresses newly trained reservist troops at mukhrovani base Greetings!I want to express my amazement and my deep pride at what all of Georgia is seeing today. Despite the prognoses of our ill-wishers, Georgia is not some little gnome that can be stepped on and squashed. Georgia is not a country that lacks self-res...
4/16/2007 President Mikheil Saakashvili's address at a joint briefing with Polish President Lech Kaczynski Welcome everyone!I would like to greet the president of Poland and our other guests from Poland, in particular the large group of Polish journalists!I want to point out that there is absolute mutual understanding in our bilateral relations; we have identi...
4/6/2007 Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili held a special briefing President Mikheil Saakashvili held a special briefing on 5 April to thank members of parliament for reaching consensus to support a draft law on creating a temporary administrative unit for South Ossetia. Parliament voted 165-2 in favour of the bill. [Saa...
4/2/2007 Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili visits Senaki military base Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has delivered a speech before a group of young people undergoing training in the new reservist programme at the Senaki military base in western Georgia. He said that the programme, which aims to create a force of 100...
3/28/2007 Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets representatives of parliamentary factions Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has held a special meeting with representatives of parliamentary factions at the State Chancellery. He praised the parliamentary majority and opposition for staking out a united position on issues of fundamental impo...
3/12/2007 Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili addresses a special session of the Security Council about the attack on Georgian villages in Upper Abkhazia Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has addressed a special session of the Security Council about the attack on Georgian villages in Upper Abkhazia (the upper part of the Kodori Gorge) on the evening of 11 March. He called the incident an act of "despe...
3/2/2007 Joint briefing held by President Saakashvili and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has praised his country's ties with Ukraine at a joint news conference in Tbilisi with counterpart Viktor Yushchenko. Speaking after the signing of a number of bilateral trade agreements, Saakashvili said that since ...
2/23/2007 Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's news conference at Tbilisi City Hall on 23 February Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has welcomed improvements in Georgian-Russian relations and praised his counterpart Vladimir Putin as an "historic figure". Speaking at a news conference with local and foreign journalists, he said that the Georgian ...
2/22/2007 Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's speech at the Senaki military base on 22 February Welcome!As the defence minister said, today we are signing into force a programme of special privileges and benefits for officers in our armed services. This document is unprecedented throughout the former Soviet Union and many other countries. We want to...
1/31/2007 President Saakashvili's remarks at the cabinet meeting of 31 January Welcome!Today we shall discuss several issues of fundamental importance to our society. First issue: natural gas.At present Georgia is supplied with gas from two sources, Azerbaijan and Russia. We pay a political price, 235 dollars per 1,000 cu.m., for Ru...
1/27/2007 President Saakashvili meets National Movement party leaders, regional governors On 27 January Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili chaired a meeting of the political council of the National Movement at the party's office in Tbilisi. At the meeting, attended by party members and regional governors, the president ordered the governor...
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