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Kakha Kaladze's Weekly Priorities Issue no: 1109 • DECEMBER 14 - 17, 2018 • PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY PRICE: GEL 2.50 In this week’s issue... Non-Governmental Sector FOCUS Criticizes Amendments to ON THE INAUGURATION Georgia's 5th and fi rst female Law on Public Service President will take her place in history this weekend PAGE 5 NEWS PAGE 3 Appathurai Speaks of “More NATO in Georgia” Next Year POLITICS PAGE 4 Swiss Ambassador on His Tenure in Georgia POLITICS PAGE 6 Euroins Insurance Group to Launch Georgian Insurance Market BUSINESS PAGE 8 Kakha Kaladze’s Weekly Priorities: TV New Year Offer from MAQRO Construction: Tower, Noise Pollution, New Year’s Love Apartments in GREEN BY SAMANTHA GUTHRIE DIAMOND with Unbelievable Discounts & ach week, the municipal government Free Parking Spaces of Tbilisi holds a meeting at City Hall. Preceding this week’s meetings, Mayor SOCIETY PAGE 10 Kakha Kaladze remarked on several topics of interest. EKaladze opened the meeting by calling on con- Professional School of struction companies to present proposals to develop alternative housing options for people Theatrical Costumes & who were affected by failed housing coopera- tives projects or scammed by other construction Accessories Opens at TAFU companies. CULTURE PAGE 15 “More than 3,000 families have been worried about this issue since the 1990s. My pre-election promise was that we would solve this problem. Concrete steps have already been taken. We will be the government of a city that will solve these problems and ensure accommodation Image source: Tbilisi City Hall [for those in need]. We have already selected specifi c areas where the construction of coop- a small group of people to pool their money to calling on other companies to step in and build erative buildings is possible. We called for hire a construction company to build them an housing for these people who lost their money expressions of interest, but unfortunately, no apartment building or ‘cooperative housing pro- in such situations. The government of Tbilisi company came forward to implement these ject.’ Some of these companies took people’s will give special benefi ts to companies who agree projects,” said Kaladze. money but failed to build anything, either due to this project, such as free land. Mostly during the 1990s, there was a trend for to corruption or bankruptcy. Now, Kaladze is Continued on page 5 GEORGIA TODAY 2 NEWS DECEMBER 14 - 17, 2018 Conference on Hydro Structure Non-Governmental Sector Criticizes Safety: Renewable Energy Amendments to Law on Public Service Development 2018 BY THEA MORRISON on-Governmental Organ- izations and the Public Defender of Georgia have said they disapprove of initiated changes to the NLaw on Public Service under which employees of the President's Adminis- tration will no longer be classed as pub- lic servants. The changes were initiated by the rul- ing Georgian Dream (GD) MPs Rati Ionatamishvili and Guram Macharashvili, and they transform the staff of the Pres- idential Administration from public servants into administrative personnel. The NGO Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association (GYLA) described the reg- Image source: Video screenshot ulations initiated in relation to the of the NGO reads. servant guarantees and can be dismissed employees of the Presidential Adminis- Nino Lomjaria, the Public Defender of without any compensation or explana- tration as “unconstitutional.“ Georgia, stressed the legislative initia- tion. “The submitted legislative initiative tive violates the labor rights of the "We are concerned that professionals contradicts the Constitution of Georgia, employees, including the constitutional who have been working in the adminis- the practice of the Constitutional Court right of Georgian citizens to be protected tration for years are at risk. We fi ght for n international conference national practices of dam safety. of Georgia and does not comply with from unjustifi ed dismissal. people who are very high rank employ- ‘Hydro Structures (dam) Renewable and green energy issues will the principles enshrined in the Law of The Public Defender called on the ees and such attitude towards them is Safety. Renewable Energy also be discussed. Renewable energy Georgia on Public Service, thus grossly Parliament of Georgia to consider the unacceptable for us,” President Giorgi Development 2018’ is to be sources (hydro, wind and solar) in Geor- violates the labor rights of persons labor rights of professional public serv- Margvelashili’s advisor, Pikria Chikhradze, held in Expo Georgia on gia will also be debated, while the existing employed in the Presidential Adminis- ants employed in the Presidential Admin- stressed. ADecember 14, 2018. The conference is situation and constraints will be analyzed. tration,” the statement reads. istration, the right of Georgian citizens MP Sergi Kapanadze of the opposition organized by the Georgian National Renowned Georgian and international NGO Institute for Development of to be employed in the public service, as European Georgia party also assessed Committee on Large Dams (GNCOLD) experts will participate, including Dr. Freedom of Information (IDFI) said the well as the values and principles of the the proposal negatively, saying that it within the frames of ELCOM Caucasus David Mirtskhulava, Chairman of the proposal is contrary to the Georgian new system of public service, and not “abuses the principle of civil service,” 2018 (the fi fth exhibition of energy, elec- Georgian National Committee on Large government’s stated policy, damages to adopt the unconstitutional law. while the United National Movement tricity and telecommunications). Dams, Doctor and Technical Sciences, Georgia’s commitments to the European “The draft law changes the status of says the changes are the fi rst step of Georgian and international experts will Professor; Manuel Antunes-Vallerey EDF Union and are possibly also contrary to the employees of the Presidential Admin- “political cleansing” of the Presidential discuss dam safety issues. The recent (France); Dr Alexandre Pachoud Stucky, the Constitutional guarantees of fair istration without any justifi cation, endan- Administration from Margvelashvili’s emergency situations at the Georgian Switzerland; Agostino Avanzi, Beta Stu- employment. gers their unhindered performance of staff. hydro power plants represent the safety dio (Italy); Mauro Picollo – Eurecos, “The initiated amendments infringe duties and creates unconditional grounds Chairperson of the Procedures Com- issues of building hydro power plants, founder (Italy); Archil Motsonelidze, upon the rights of civil servants, pose a for their dismissal,” Lomjaria’s statement mittee Giorgi Kakhiani said Georgia’s infrastructure, water supply and melio- Professor; Gia Arabidze; Paata Tsintsadze; risk to the establishment of an effective, reads. public service reform was approved by ration. In order to prevent further inci- Murman Margvelashvili and others sustainable and politically neutral civil The President’s Administration says the non-governmental sector and inter- dents, it is therefore necessary to take The conference opening is in parallel service in Georgia and generally to the the planned changes are “categorically national organizations, adding there measures. The conference will reveal with an exposition in the 11th Pavilion successful implementation of public unacceptable” as the employees of the would be no changes that might nega- new approaches, technologies and inter- of Expo Georgia. administration reform,” the statement Administration will not enjoy public tively affect the reform. GEORGIA TODAY 4 POLITICS DECEMBER 14 - 17, 2018 Appathurai Speaks of “More NATO in Georgia” Next Year PM Bakhtadze assured Appathurai that BY THEA MORRISON the country’s Euro-Atlantic aspiration is a high-level priority of the government, which is eagerly supported by the Geor- ATO Deputy Assistant gian people. It was highlighted that 2018 Secretary General for was particularly successful within the Political Affairs and the scope of NATO-Georgia interaction and NATO Secretary General’s the progress achieved in recent years is Special Representative for particularly noteworthy. Nthe Caucasus and Central Asia James The NATO offi cial also held a meeting Appathurai stated the Alliance is look- with Georgian Foreign Minister David ing forward to even more NATO in Geor- Zalkaliani, stating after the meeting that gia and more Georgia in NATO next year. the aim of his arrival is the preservation Appathurai made the statement at the of the positive political dynamic between meeting with the Georgian Prime Min- Georgia and the EU and to summarize ister Mamuka Bakhtadze, during his the recent NATO ministerial. offi cial visit to Georgia. “I believe that the Georgian people will “Next year, we will see more NATO in see more NATO in Georgia next year. Georgia; we should have a lot of high- Of course, we should work for concrete level visits - more than this year, so that outcomes. For instance, the implemen- we really show the Georgian people that tation of effective reforms and strength- this cooperation is paying off and that ening of democratic processes,” Appa- NATO is committed,” Appathurai said. thurai said after the meeting. He noted that he and Bakhtadze mainly The NATO Secretary General's Special talked about the steady reforms and Representative told the media that the steady progress in Georgia's way towards Alliance thinks Russia has not changed NATO. its aggressive behavior. “We discussed concrete ways in terms “The incident in the Black Sea between of more
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