Burjanadze: Deadlock Averted in Talks with Opposition

The impasse surrounding talks between opposition and the authorities has been broken following an agreement to sign a joint memorandum laying out deadlines for the implementation of some of the opposition demands, Parliamentary Chairperson Nino Burjanadze said on February 12.

?This joint memorandum will be a kind of action plan outlining what we have already agreed and laying out deadlines for implementation,? she told lawmakers in Parliament.

She said that the agreement followed late-night consultations on February 11. ?We have prevented deadlock in the talks as a result of these consultations,? Burjanadze said.

The joint memorandum, she said, would be developed by joint working groups and would be released soon, ?at most the day after tomorrow? ? February 14. She also said that agreement was possible on most of the demands put forth by the twelve opposition parties in a joint 17-point memorandum on January 29.

?The agreement is that the authorities will lay out their positions on concrete issues in writing with concrete deadlines for their implementation,? Davit Usupashvili, leader of the opposition Republican Party, told the Georgian Public Broadcaster on February 12.

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