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3/23/2006 President Saakashvili opens construction of leisure centre between Adjara and Guria President Saakashvili visited the border between Adjara and Guria to attend a ceremony to mark the start of work on the construction of the largest leisure centre in Georgia, Tsitsinatela. The complex will cover 14 hectares and the first stage of construc...
3/17/2006 President Saakashvili holds briefing at the State Chancellery First of all, I would like to share some issues with you. Yesterday was a very happy day for me. My old dream was finally realized. The construction of the Tbilisi-Tskhinvali-Sukhumi motorway began. My friends and I often think about what we are going to ...
3/14/2006 President Saakashvili’s welcoming address to the Turkish President I would like to greet our guest, the head of Turkey. We live in a historic time. Today an agreement on joint exploitation of the Batumi airport, which is being built with joint effort of Georgia and Turkey, has been signed. This means that the Batumi airp...
3/4/2006 President Saakashvili attends ski tournament closing ceremony On January 4th, President Mikheil Saakashvili attended the closing ceremony of the "Sukhia 2006" ski tournament in Bakuriani. President Saakashvili skied with the professional and amateur sportsman participants, and after the tournament addressed the atte...
2/25/2006 Address by President Saakashvili at cadets’ commemorating ceremony Welcome, everybody!Georgia's previous president never came here, but we, today, are paying respect to the memory of every person who tragically died for the independence of Georgia. Not only Georgian cadets but many generations of the Georgian patriots ha...
2/24/2006 President Saakashvili holds National Security Council meeting As bird blue has been identified in Georgia, Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli, Minister of Labor, Health and Social Affairs [Lado Chipashvili] and the Minister of Agriculture [Mikheil Svimonishvili] visited Adjara today. On the map of Europe, Georgia, with...
2/23/2006 Address by President Saakashvili at the judges’ oath taking ceremony Welcome, everybody!Today, the judges will be taking an oath which is an important event for all of us. Today we can also talk about existing problems in the judiciary. The whole Georgia can be proud of those judges we have in Georgia today. Corruption is ...
2/21/2006 Statement by President Saakashvili at the Security Council meeting For the last few days Russia made the steps which might be estimated as somewhat strange and inadequate. Russian President Vladimir Putin called me himself and offered me to send Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Noghaideli to Moscow. We agreed on this meetin...
2/18/2006 Address by President Saakashvili at the Georgian Security forum Welcome, everybody!This is a very representative conference for us. A very good tradition has been established in Georgia. Georgia is no longer a backwater in the world, surrounded by myths and legends. Georgia is the country which has become interesting ...
2/3/2006 Remarks by President Saakashvili at the dinner dedicated to the 42nd international conference in Munich Good evening ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, heads of government, and visiting delegations.This is my first time attending the Munich Security Conference, and on behalf of my delegation, I would like to thank the hosts for honoring me with thi...
1/30/2006 President says Georgia emerging stronger from energy crisis I would like to welcome you all from a city of light and tell you that the energy situation is gradually returning to normal, the most important thing that has happened in recent days. Georgia is now, seven days later, stronger than before. Our people and...
1/27/2006 President Saakashvili talks on energy supply issues Welcome!Minister of Energy of Georgia has been holding negotiations with the government of Iran these days. We have achieved an agreement with Iran on the supply of natural gas. We will start receiving gas from Sunday but it will be enough only to satisfy...
1/26/2006 President Saakashvili addresses nation amid energy crisis I had to halt my very important visit to Switzerland where I was scheduled to hold impotent meetings with the government leaders and influential politicians. I believe that I should be with my people when they need me most. Before coming back to Georgia I...
1/24/2006 Joint press conference by President Saakashvili and the Swedish Prime Minister President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili: Welcome! Georgia suffers great problems today; however, today's visit by the Prime Minister of Sweden, Gran Persson, to Georgia is a great honor for us. At this time, I would like to mention that two years ago, th...
1/23/2006 President Saakashvili opens new thermoelectric power stations in Gardabani Welcome! Today is a historic day. Since independence we are opening the first big power plant in Georgia today. After independence Georgian energy system was in crisis, absolutely ruined and robbed. Georgia was in total blackout. After the Rose Revolution...
1/22/2006 Emergency statement by President Saakashvili A major act of sabotage against our country's energy system has been committed by the Russian Federation. Early this morning the three main arteries supplying Georgia with energy were simultaneously cut off. These were the two [gas] pipelines on Russian t...
1/22/2006 Remarks by President Saakashvili at the Security Council meeting What has happened today is the scenario by which we have been menaced for a long time. We have been preparing for this situation. This was a catastrophic scenario, which they could easily accomplish - simultaneously disrupting energy and gas supplies. If ...
1/22/2006 President Saakashvil’s comments on pipeline explosion to BBC news Unfortunately it looks like Georgia is experiencing a similar energy crisis to that which took place in Ukraine a few weeks ago. What I mean is that Russia remains our unreliable and unpredictable provider of energy. What happened here was, we had explosi...
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