429 IDP families receive brand-new flats in western Georgia
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429 internally displaced families from Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) have received new apartments today in one of the central streets in the city of Kutaisi, Imereti region.
Georgia’s Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees Sozar Subari, personally gave keys to their new owners.
Today I see children, elderly people, everyone together will now have the opportunity to live in human conditions. However, we all hope and firmly believe that this is a temporary home for each of you because our homes are in Sokhumi, Gagra, Gali, Tskhinvali and Akhalgori, where we will definitely return”, said Minister Subari addressing the IDPs.
Delivering the keys he thanked the families for dealing with all the hardship they have gone through during displacement from their original homes.
Subari further noted that a lot of other families are waiting for their turn to enter brand new appartnents. He said some new buildings are now under construction in Kutaisi where 480 more families will receive flats very soon.
Seventy families have been given grants in Georgia’s western Samegrelo region to start or develop small businesses.
The General Assembly of the United Nations has recognised the right of return of all internally displaced persons and refugees in Georgia and their descendants to their homes throughout that country, including Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region.
Internally displaced families from the Russian occupied regions of Georgia - Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) - have received up to 5,000 GEL in small grants to open their own business.
Internally displaced persons from the Russian occupied regions of Georgia – Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) can receive up to 5,000 GEL small grants to lead their own business this year.
About 250 internally displaced families from the Russian-occupied regions of Georgia – Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) – will move to brand new apartments soon.
Eight internally displaced families from Georgia’s Russian occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) have received new apartments today in Borjomi, Samtskhe-Javakheti region of Georgia.
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze has announced that his office has registered the flats of 47 families living in Tbilisi, nearby the Tskneti highway.