2 residential buildings to be built for 120 IDPs in Mtskheta

120 internally displaced families from the Russian occupied regions of Georgia – Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) will move to brand new appartments in Georgia’s historical town of Mtskheta next year.

Foundations of two residential buildings have been laid so that this time next year construction will be over and IDPs will see New Year at home.

Minister of IDPs Sozar Subari meets with IDPs living in Mtskheta. Photo by Ministry of IDPs

Georgian Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees Sozar Subari met with the IDPs yesterday.

It has been decades since IDPs have been living in the hardest conditions in Mtskheta… Exactly in a year and a month construction will be over putting an end to IDPs' resettlement issue”, Subari said.

According to Minister Subari, these  two eight-floor buildings will be enough to settle all the IDPs currently residing in the historic town of Mtskheta and its surroundings. 

Entire construction works cost up to GEL 6 million and are carried out by a Transmshen company. Photo by Ministry of IDPs

Minister Subari believes in August next year all the flats will be ready to welcome their new owners.