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President Zurabishvili Delivers First Report in Parliament Issue no: 1131 • MARCH 8 - 11, 2019 • PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY PRICE: GEL 2.50 In this week’s issue... Pardoning Commission to Move to Justice Ministry NEWS PAGE 3 Saving the Georgian Dream or Ivanishvili’s Dream? POLITICS PAGE 4 China Opens a New Military Base in Tajikistan POLITICS PAGE 5 FOCUS Spanish Platform Dyntra Ranks Tbilisi at Just 19% ON EQUALITY Transparency A look at how women are represented in the tech sphere PAGE 2 POLITICS PAGE 7 Irakli Kervalishvili: We'll Have a Deep-Water Marina President Zurabishvili Delivers in Poti by Year-End 2020 BUSINESS PAGE 8 First Report in Parliament 2019 European Social bishvili said that work was ongoing with the Justice Ministry to facilitate BY THEA MORRISON Innovation Competition procedures for the restoration and preservation of citizenship. “It is our duty to create favorable conditions for immigrants’ return to Launched the country and to provide them with information about the demand for resident of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili delivered her fi rst specialists in employment that allows them to fi t their professional plans SOCIETY PAGE 10 report before the Members of Parliament on March 6. with the local market,” she said. The fi rst female president of the country started her report Zurabishvili also claimed that neither the democratic system nor state by summing up her visits abroad in the rank of president, stat- stability would be preserved in the country without protected and objec- Russian Freethinker Deals ing that her meetings with the EU and NATO offi cials, and tive information. Continued on page 2 Pfollow-on meetings with her French and German counterparts, had with Stalinism: “Stalin Is Not brought Georgia closer to its foreign partners and states. Zurabishvili spoke about her visits to Afghanistan and Azerbaijan, high- yet Completely Dead” lighting she was warmly welcomed by the offi cials there. She said she raised the issue of Russian occupation during every meeting and under- lined that Georgia will not put up with the injustice of it. “Georgia will not reconcile with the occupation, abductions and creep- ing lines that are parts of [Russia's] violent policy. The formats of nego- tiations are at a technical level at present. I talked to our partners about the necessity to restore high political formats. Our partners must tell Russia that games ending in zero points are not in the interests of anyone and that leading an aggressive policy is the way backward,” she added. The Georgian President named the diaspora and cultural relations as priorities of her activities and as such, she met with students and emi- grants during her foreign visits. She underlined that having the status of a Georgian citizen was very important for emigrants to keep close links with the motherland. Zura- CULTURE PAGE 15 GEORGIA TODAY 2 NEWS MARCH 8 - 11, 2019 Tech4Equality Supports Women’s Empowerment in Tbilisi highly underrepresented. personal fi elds of interest apart from BY LISA MAIER Louisa Vinton, United Nations Resident typical gender roles,” Chechelashvili Coordinator in Georgia, opened the said. Talk4Equality event and the stage for a Ulrik Tideström, Ambassador of Swe- n March 5, International row of inspiring speakers. She pointed den to Georgia and Armenia, stated, Women’s day was marked to the importance of celebrating Wom- “There will be no sustainable develop- with the Tech4Equality en’s Day and to use this day to shine the ment, welfare, sustainable peace or secu- talk in Tbilisi; aiming to spotlight on both sides of gender equal- rity if we keep excluding half the popu- discuss new ways of ity, “To celebrate the positive while also lation,” and went on to demand more Oempowering women and girls by sup- seeking solutions for the negative.” engagement from men to end this exclu- porting their involvement in the fi eld of Women in Georgia are well-educated sion. technology and science and echoing this and are still underrepresented in the All speakers exemplifi ed how they had year’s theme for International Women’s working environment and particularly found new approaches and creative solu- Day, ‘Think equal, build smart, innovate in high positions, as well as in the sci- tions on global problems. Natia Ninike- for change.’ The event was organized by ence and technology fi eld. Vinton stated lashviliv, founder of www.soplidan.ge, the United Nations in Georgia in coop- this fact as “shocking” and referred to created a start-up, distributing food eration with the Administration of the the need for innovation to equalize this products from the regions on the inter- President of Georgia, Gender Equality imbalance. “The main challenge is to net in order to ease farmers’ lives from Council of the Parliament of Georgia, think equal, end stereotypes and point the burden of worrying about sales- the governments of Sweden and Norway, to role models for young girls,” she building a bridge between rural and and the Georgian civil society organiza- said. urban areas in Georgia. “Promoting equal tion ‘Innovation Support Fund.’ The talk hosted a line-up of inspiring rights in the technological fi eld will bring Georgia is still facing a gender imbal- speakers from a wide range of fi elds who a whole new and innovative set of ideas ance in the work environment, with the presented their stories and experiences Ulrik Tideström, Ambassador of Sweden to Georgia and Armenia to the fi eld,” she said. fi eld of science and technology the most in the tech and science world and what “There are so many strong women who affected area of gender inequality. Women kind of diffi culties they had had to face Ninikelashviliv, Founder of www.sopli- and bio-artist. stand out in Georgia, but when you look are more represented in social works in a “male-dominated” world. The speak- dan.ge; Maia Todua, Director of the The speakers presented positive aspects at the average wage gap and the lack of and the wholesale sector than in techni- ers counted UN and governmental rep- Abastumani Observatory; David Che- as well as negative, pushing for easier representation, particularly in political cal activities, science, politics and the resentatives discussing structural per- chelashvili, a strategy oriented, experi- access for young girls to the tech fi eld. leadership, I think women need to take manufacturing sector. Equality among spectives and offi cial efforts already enced high-tech entrepreneur, technol- Some speakers pointed to their child- courage and demand their rights. But genders is still not a matter of course, as made, as well as leading women in sci- ogy commercialization expert; Esma hoods, where stereotyping starts either we also need to work together with men the statistics show (geostat.ge), and ence and technology offering their rather Gumberidze, an activist who advocates in the families or in schools. “Our edu- to ensure and spread the idea that gen- although the sphere of technology and personal stories and experiences. Among for equal opportunities and access for cation system is still all about remem- der equality is a good thing for women science is a permanently increasing work the speakers were Nana Dikhaminjia, all in Georgia; Mariam Rusishvili, CEO bering, not about self-awareness, think- as well as men, and at the end for society environment, creating ongoing future Professor of Electronic and Computer and founder of QuickCash AI; and Ani ing and criticizing. We need to be overall,” Louisa Vinton told GEORGIA and sustainable jobs, women are still Engineering at Ilia State University; Natia Tsitsishvili, microbiologist, veterinarian teaching soft skills like curiosity to awaken TODAY. President Zurabishvili Delivers First Report in Parliament Continued from page 1 We should stop fresh fl oods of misin- formation, slander, the language of “We cannot close our eyes to the hatred and secret recordings exposing threats which intimidate people and private lives,” she added. society in the form of slander and false In addition, the President mentioned information,” she stressed. a number of other challenges that the The President underlined that polar- country is facing, like unemployment, ization was raging in the country and healthcare and social issues, poor con- that a violent environment intimidated ditions for disabled people and the lives of all. “The public expects increased cancer cases. boiling water to become calmer. It Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze, needs peace and reconciliation. This members of the government and Tbi- requires the processes developed in lisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze attended the information and social networks to be delivery of the annual speech by Pres- Photo source: 1TV brought within civilized frameworks. ident Salome Zurabishvili. SUBSCRIBE! 1 YEAR SUBSCRIPTION - 60 GEL (6 ISSUES) Money Back Guarantee! [email protected] +995 32 229 59 19 Tel: (995 32) 2 45 08 08 10 Galaktion Street E-mail: [email protected] GEORGIA TODAY MARCH 8 - 11, 2019 NEWS 3 The European Commission against Racism & Intolerance Reminds Georgia of Two Unfulfi lled Recommendations Image source: http://hollywoodunitednc.org Image source: ECRI ECRI encourages the Georgian author- BY THEA MORRISON Pardoning Commission to ities to continue on this path. It consid- ers that this recommendation has been partially implemented,” the commission he European Commission stated. against Racism and Intoler- The second issue concerns ECRI’s rec- Move to Justice Ministry ance (ECRI), the Council ommendation that the Georgian author- of Europe’s independent ities scale up their support for the Coun- president of Georgia noted that during President’s function to pardon inmates. human rights monitoring cil of Religions, which operates under BY THEA MORRISON the term of the previous president, the “In this situation, we will get a very Tbody specialized in combating antisem- the auspices of the Public Defender’s practice of pardoning resembled acts of ineffi cient, inactive and dead pardoning itism, discrimination, racism, religious Tolerance Center.
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