12/31/2005 President Saakashvili awards public figures with orders and medals of honor First of all I would like to thank you all for coming!This is a very important event for us since I have an honor to award state decorations to public figures today. I must mention that we rarely award people, as I consider that the government should resp... 12/31/2005 President Saakashvili’s New Year address In a few minutes' time we will say goodbye to 2005. The year 2005 has seen many positive changes in our lives. In this period our nation has replaced lawlessness with law, order with chaos, hope and a belief in our own strength for hopelessness, daily ene... 12/29/2005 President Saakashvili promises help to Football Federation On December 29 President Mikheil Saakashvili met with the President of the Georgian Football Federation and football players at the State Chancellery to discuss existing problems in Georgian football. President Saakashvili promised to provide assistance t... 12/29/2005 President Saakashvili signs legislation on organized crime and racketeering President Saakashvili today signed legislation on organized crime and racketeering, saying:"I would like to sign legislation on organized crime and racketeering. This law serves to institutionalize our effort to crack down on organized crime and the exist... 12/28/2005 Address by President Saakashvili at charity dinner with businessmen I welcome you all. We are establishing a very important tradition. This dinner is very important because it is the first major event of its kind in our country. We are only beginning to establish traditions. We have a new coat of arms, a new anthem, which... 12/26/2005 President Saakashvili visits Sagarejo Today President Mikheil Saakashsvili visited Sagarejo, in the Kakheti region, to attend the opening of a free canteen for vulnerable people. The canteen was opened by the United National Movement Party and will serve over 100 people every day.President Sa... 12/22/2005 President Saakashvili reshuffles government officials President Mikheil Saakashvili at a National Security Council meeting on December 22 announced that Chairman of the Central Election Commission Gia Kavtaradze will replace Kote Kemularia as Minister of Justice, and that Kemularia will be appointed as the S... 12/22/2005 Telephone conversation between Georgian and Russian Presidents A telephone conversation took place on December 22 between President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. During the phone conversation the two presidents discussed existing and future economic cooperation... 12/22/2005 Romanian President pays informal visit to Georgia President of Romania Traian Basescu paid an informal visit to Georgia on December 22. President Basescu, who stayed in Tbilisi for several hours, held talks with President Saakashvili at the government residence.Soon after the meeting President Basescu le... 12/21/2005 President Saakashvili celebrates his birthday with at-risk people President Mikheil Saakashvili celebrated his 38th birthday on December 21 and received many congratulations from his counterparts in other countries.President Saakashvili marked his birthday together with at-risk people in the Gldani-Nadzaladevi district ... 12/19/2005 First Lady gives birth to the second child Georgia's First Lady Sandra Roelofs gave birth to the second son at Otar Gudushauri State National Medical Center on December 19. The child has been named after President Saakashvili's father Nikoloz Saakashvili."Our child will live in happy and united Ge... 12/9/2005 President Saakashvili opens new canteen for vulnerable people in Kutaisi On December 9th President Mikheil Saakashvili visited a free canteen for vulnerable people opened by the United National Movement in Kutaisi.There, President Saakashvili talked and dined with elderly patrons. Communications Officeof the President of Georg... 12/9/2005 President Saakashvili unveils Zurab Zhvania School of Public Administration in Kutaisi Welcome, everybody!It is an historic day. I would like to congratulate all of you on the opening of the Zurab Zhvania School of Public Administration in Kutaisi. It is not accidental that this school has been named after Zurab Zhvania. He played an enormo... 12/5/2005 President Saakashvili opens one more canteen for the poor President Mikheil Saakashvili opened one more canteen for the poor in the Temka district, which will serve over 200 poor people every day. At the opening ceremony, attended by representatives of the Administration and leaders of the National Movement Part... 12/2/2005 Declaration of the Countries of the Community of Democratic Choice (Kyiv, Ukraine, December 2nd, 2005) We, the countries of the Baltic-Black-Caspian Sea region; Expressing our adherence to the purposes and principles set forth in the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Devoted to ... 12/1/2005 President Saakashvili participates in the summit of the Community of Democratic Choice in Kyiv President Mikheil Saakashvili left for Ukraine on November 30 to participate in the first summit of the Community of Democratic Choice in Kyiv. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, Ukrainian President Victor Yushchenko, Latvian President Vaira Vike-Fre...

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