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Citizens of Ukraine and Georgia will be able to cross the border with only their personal ID cards. The respective agreement was signed by Georgian and Ukrainian Prime Ministers, Mamuka Bakhtadze and Volodymyr Groysman, on October 5, on the sidelines of the GUAM summit. According to Georgian PM’s press office, …

Heads of the governments of the GUAM member states – Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova – met in Chisinau on October 5, discussing ways to enhance the cooperation format. As part of the summit, Georgian PM Mamuka Bakhtadze, Moldovan PM Pavel Filip, Ukrainian PM Volodymyr Groysman, and Deputy Azerbaijani PM Ali Akhmedov, signed a joint …

Georgian Prime Minister’s special representative for Russia Zurab Abashidze and Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin met in Prague on October 1, as part of the informal direct bilateral dialogue launched between the two countries in late 2012. Both sides reported after the meeting that the diplomats spoke on the increasing …

Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze said on October 1 that the country’s airspace would now be “more protected and effectively controlled”. He presented the arrival of the French-made ground-based surveillance radars and short range anti-aircraft missile systems to Georgia. PM Bakhtadze said the air forces are among the main elements of …

Presidents of Estonia, Slovakia and Ukraine referred to Georgia in their statements at the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly on September 26. Below are the excerpts from their statements.

Georgia ranks seventh among the world’s 162 countries and territories in the annual Economic Freedom of the World report, released on September 25 by the Fraser Institute, a public policy think tank based in Vancouver, Canada. The report measures the degree of economic freedom of nations for 2016 – the latest year …

Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze held several high level meetings in New York on the sidelines of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly, which gathered hundreds of state leaders, officials and civil society representatives on September 18-27. At the meeting with UN Secretary General António Guterres on September 24, …

Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze, who is on an official visit to the United States on September 16-27, said the prospect of signing a free trade agreement (FTA) between the two countries enjoys wide political support in Washington D.C. In an interview with Imedi TV on September 22, PM Bakhtadze said …

Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze has unveiled a five-year plan for education reform, which aims at improving the quality of education at all levels, including through modernizing the education system and retraining teachers. The reform plan was introduced to government officials, lawmakers, experts, and representatives of local and international organizations at an …

Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze is on his first official visit to Yerevan on September 10. Today, he met his Armenian counterpart Nikol Pashinyan, and discussed deepening of bilateral cooperation, including in the fields of trade and economy. At a joint press briefing after the meeting, Bakhtadze said it is important …

The Government initiated amendments to the law on August 27, which would end the life-time security protection to Georgia’s top officials. The bill prepared by the Special State Protection Service abolishes the life-time security protection to former Heads of State, reducing it to one year following the officials’ exit from …

Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze, who is on a one-day official visit to Baku on August 30, met Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and discussed bilateral and regional cooperation. PM Bakhtadze reiterated that the two countries are linked by strategic partnership. “The regional projects that we have implemented together have a really …

Minister of Interior Affairs Giorgi Gakharia and Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure Maia Tskhitishvili were appointed as Vice Prime Ministers in Mamuka Bakhtadze’s new cabinet, the Georgian Government’s press office reported on July 17. Two officials from Giorgi Kvirikashvili’s cabinet – the Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the …

The Parliament of Georgia confirmed on July 14 Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze’s new cabinet composition with 101 votes in favor to 12 against. The new government had to face the parliamentary confidence vote following the recent structural changes in the cabinet, which reduced the number of ministries from fourteen to eleven. The following …

Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze presented his new cabinet composition on July 12, including three new ministerial candidates. Bakhtadze’s eleven-member cabinet will face the parliamentary vote of confidence on July 14, following the ministers’ meetings with parliamentary committees and political groups. The cabinet newcomers are: Minister of Education, Science, Culture and …

Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze will travel to Brussels later this month in his first foreign visit after assuming power. According to PM’s press office, Bakhtadze will visit Belgium on July 18-20 and hold talks with officials from the European Commission, the European Council and NATO. Mamuka Bakhtadze was tapped to be the …

Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze said at a news briefing on June 29 that the current estimations of Georgia’s economic growth based on the state statistics office, Geostat, prove that “the government carries out correct economic policy.” According to Geostat, Georgia’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew 7.5% year-on-year in May 2018; …

The number of ministries in the Government of Georgia will be reduced from fourteen to eleven, Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze announced at a news briefing on June 26, following his three-day-long consultations with ruling party leadership. As part of the proposed structural changes, the Ministry of Culture and Sport will be merged with …

The Parliament of Georgia confirmed on June 20 Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze’s new government with 99 votes in favor to 6 against. The following ministers will be in Bakhtadze’s cabinet: Minister of Corrections – Kakha Kakhishvili; Minister of Culture and Monument Protection – Mikheil Giorgadze Minister of Defense – Levan Izoria; Minister …

The number of ministries in the Government of Georgia will be reduced from fourteen to eleven, Prime Minister-designate Mamuka Bakhtadze said at a news briefing on June 18, following his consultations with ruling party leadership earlier today. Bakhtadze, who was tapped to be the country’s new head of government after …