Sixteen leading Georgian NGOs have called on President Salome Zurabishvili to abolish the bill initiated by the ruling Georgian Dream party MPs which proposes the split of State Inspector;s Service into two agencies – one which will look into alleged...
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is scheduled to hold a special meeting of allied ambassadors and high-ranking Russian officials next week to prevent open conflict over Ukraine. The meeting has been requested by both sides. Russia is buildin...
Member of the United National Movement Eka Kherkheulidze says that imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili is working on an economic programme in Rustavi prison No.12. Kheurkheulidze claims that Saakashvili is ‘politically fit’ despite ‘inh...
The ruling Georgian Dream party leadership say that they are not against the creation of a temporary parliamentary commission on former president Mikheil Saakashvili’s case, who claims he was a victim of inhuman and degrading treatment while in priso...
Head of the ruling Georgian Dream party Irakli Kobakhidze says that the US Embassy to Georgia has made an ‘unfair and incorrect’ assessment on the State Inspector’s Service which could have been caused by ‘by a human mistake’ or wrong information. ...
Head of Georgia’s State Inspector’s Service Londa Toloraia has stated that the US embassy has made a ‘very loud and clear statement [../../../en/news/details/17711],’ on the decision of the ruling Georgian Dream party ‘to abolish the agency’ and repl...
Georgia will not attend the second meeting of the so-called 3+3 format proposed by Turkey and Iran in 2020 which includes Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia to address regional security issues. The first meeting of the format was held in Russia in Dece...
The US Embassy to Georgia says that the Georgian Dream ruling party undermined the government accountability last week by abolishing the State Inspector Service, which is mandated to investigate police abuse and protect data privacy. The embassy st...
The United National Movement (UNM) opposition MPs will enter the state legislature if opposition parties in parliament stand together to create a temporary investigative commission which will look into alleged violations of the rights of imprisoned f...
Former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen [https://twitter.com/AndersFoghR] says that it is time for the alliance to set out an action plan to realize its promise on the membership of Georgia and Ukraine given during the 2008 Bucharest s...
