Georgian President, OSCE Sec-Gen speak of Russian occupation, women’s empowerment
President Salome Zurabishvili (middle) has concuded her historic visit to Austria. Photo: Permanent representative of France to the OSCE/Twitter
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Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, who is on her historic visit to Austria, spoke about the situation in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions as well as the importance of women’s empowerment with the OSCE Secretary General Hekga Schmid.
President Zurabishvili has announced that with the support of the OSCE she wants to host a conference on conflict resolution, peace and security involving female leaders.
Salome Zurabishvili has tweeted:
Working with the @OSCE on a project to hold a conference in Tbilisi with the participation of women leaders on conflict resolution, peace and security, with the support of the Organization. Thank you @HelgaSchmid_SG for a productive meeting today during my visit to Vienna pic.twitter.com/mV3skv41wD
— Salome Zourabichvili (@Zourabichvili_S) October 13, 2021
During the meeting, the role of the OSCE in promoting women’s participation in various spheres including the male dominated politics has been also underscored.
In Vienna President Zurabishvili met with the female ambassadors of the OSCE member states as well as attended an exhibition dedicated to the first Nobel Peace Prize-winning woman Bertha von Suttner who lived in Georgia for some time.
Georgia's amnassador to the OSCE Ketevan Tsikhelashvili has tweeted:
The President of ????????, H.E. @Zourabichvili_S at #OSCE, to support Women, Peace & Security agenda, opening exhibition #WomenforPeace featuring Austrian Bertha von Suttner, the 1st woman Nobel prize winner 4 peace, w/t SG @HelgaSchmid_SG & powerful club of Ambassadricies ???? pic.twitter.com/t8CQe0fJUQ
— Keti Tsikhelashvili (@TsikhelashviliK) October 13, 2021
Salome Zurabishvili is the first Georgian president to visit Austria in her official capacity for the first time in 100 years, making the visit historic.
During her visit President Zurabishvili has met with her Austrian counterpart Alexander van der Bellen, as well as addressed the Austria-Georgia business forum pledging to strengthen the two countries' ties.
Georgia and Austria are strengthening economic cooperation and deepening ties in the fields of trade and investment, digitization, communications and innovation, transport, energy, tourism, agriculture and the environment, the Ministry of Economy of Georgia has announced.
Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen says economic relations with Georgia are good nowadays, but they have ‘great potential to be intensified’. In his opening remarks at the Austria-Georgia business forum held in Vienna earlier today, President van der Bellen also noted that after the difficulties caused by the pandemic, the Georgian economy ‘has picked up speed again very quickly'.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has paid a historic official visit to Austria. She is the first Georgia president to visit the country in an official capacity for the first time in 100 years. Zurabishvili met with Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen earlier today, after meeting with members of the Georgian diaspora in Vienna.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili is paying an official visit to Austria today. Diplomatic relations between Georgia and Austria were established on March 25, 1992. The Embassy of Georgia to Austria first was opened in 1993 while the Embassy of Austria in Tbilisi was launched in 2016. President Zurabishvili will start her visit in Vienna where she will meet with Georgians working in Austria. The meeting will be attended by the representatives of the arts and medicine.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili, who is paying an official visit in Geneva, has met with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet. During the meeting earlier today, Zurabishvili addressed human rights violation cases in Georgia’s Russian-occupied regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali, including the unlawful arrests of Georgian citizens: Irakli Bebua, Genadi Bestayev and Gela Gochoshvili.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has awarded the members of the Group of Friends of Georgia to the Swiss Confederation in the federal city of Bern. Medals of Honour were awarded earlier today to Marianna Krayer, Barbara Schellewald, and Cyrill Haring for their contributions to the popularisation of Georgian culture abroad.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has addressed the virtual Summit for Democracy organised by US President Joe Biden and stated that significant threats undermine the progress achieved internally including polarisation, fake news and hate speech which ‘not only fuel internal divisions, but also undermine democratic processes’ in the country.