PACE rapporteurs continue meetings in Tbilisi
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Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) co-rapporteurs Michael Jensen and Boris Silevich continue meeting Georgian leaders in Tbilisi today.
This morning the pair will meet the Patriarch of Georgia, Ilia II. A meeting with the Speaker of Parliament David Usupashvili is scheduled for later today.
The PACE co-rapporteurs will summarize their two-day visit in Georgia at a news conference at 7pm tonight.
Jensen of Denmark and Silevich of Latvia, arrived in Georgia on Monday and met with local authorities yesterday . Issues relating to human rights, religious minorities, repatriation of Meskhetian Turks and occupied territories were topics of their interest.
A larger PACE delegation, including Monitoring Committee members, have already met with Georgias Ombudsman Ucha Nanuashvili, State Minister for Reconcriliation and Civil Equality Paata Zakareishvili, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, Presiden Giorgi Margvelashvili, members of Parliamentary Majority, Minister of Justice Tea Tsulukiani, Minister of Corrections and Legal Assistance Sozar Subari and Chief Prosecution employees.
The PACE delegation are expected to leave Georgia this afternoon.
Georgia’s religious issues and repatriation policies were discussed by Government official and international investigators today. Georgia’s State Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality met with Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly’s (PACE) co-rapporteurs Michael Jensen and Boris Silevich.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is condemning the integration deal between occupied Tskhinvali and Moscow, and believes the deal promotes "creeping annexation” of Georgian territory.
A Romanian MP Titus Corlatean has been appointed as a new rapporteur on Georgia at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Corlatean replaced Boris Silevich in the role.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibahsvili and Foreign Minister David Zalklaiani have met separately with co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Titus Corlatean (Romania, SOC) and Claude Kern (France, ALDE), who are visiting Georgia on December 8-10.