PM: Unemployment to be Halved in 2007

Georgia Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli said on August 30 that the government has ambitions to halve unemployment next year.

?80-85 thousand new jobs will be created in Georgia next year, which will, actually, halve unemployment in the country,? MP Nogaideli told a government session.

He said that the new presidential program, envisaging government-sponsored three-month internships in private businesses for at least 50 000 citizens, will largely contribute to the decrease in unemployment.