PM and Tbilisi Mayor promote Georgia’s “green future”

Tbilisi Mayor Davit Narmania has launched a tree planting campaign to develop Tbilisi's forest-park areas this autumn.

At today's planting session, where 600 trees were planted in one of Tbilisi's parks, Narmania did his part and planted broad-leaved and pine trees.

On another note, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili participated in a planting greenery action where 200 species of Paulownia saplings were planted at the Youth Park in central Georgia’s city of Rustavi yesterday.

This was a continuation of the Green Future campaign, which started this spring under the PM’s initiative.

The PM said protecting the environment was one of the top priorities of the Government and "important projects” were in the pipeline in this direction.

"The forest had been chopped down and taken away from the country over the past years without any control,” the PM said.

"This threatens the ecology of our country. We are obliged to stop this process. The action Green Future serves to this concrete aim. Herewith, we started the restoration of Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park that was burnt down during the 2008 war.”

He noted the Georgian Government was going to start a major waste management campaign that would work alongside the campaign of planting greenery.

"Georgia must be cleaned from waste and this is very important,” Garibashvili said.

"The draft project initiated by the Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources has already been passed to Parliament. We will make the laws stricter and increase the administrative fines. To litter in Georgia should become shameful.”