Georgian PM visits 100-year-old WWII veteran to offer Victory Day congratulations
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday visited Ioseb Tukhashvili, a 100-year-old war veteran of World War II today. Photo: PM's press office.
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Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday visited Ioseb Tukhashvili, a 100-year-old war veteran of World War II today to extend his congratulations on the Victory Day and hand over presents.
Tukhashvili thanked the Government head, adding the state’s care for veterans in the country was “commendable”.
Photo: PM's press office.
Earlier Garibashvili was in the Park for Cultural Pastime and Recreation of Veterans in Tbilisi for the occasion, and laid a wreath at the bust sculpture of Meliton Kantaria, a Soviet Georgian soldier who hoisted the Soviet flag over the Reichstag on April 30, 1945, together with fellow servicemembers Mikhail Yegorov and Aleksey Berest.
Georgia is today celebrating the 77th anniversary of the victory over the Nazi Germany by allied forces in World War II.
Tukhashvili showing his medals to PM Garibashvili. Photo: PM's press office.
On the occasion of the annual May 9 celebrations, the Ministry of Health and Tbilisi City Hall will provide one-time financial assistance to World War II veterans and family members of deceased servicemembers.
The former will receive ₾1,000 ($328/€310), and the latter will be presented with ₾500 ($164/€155), the Government Administration said.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday congratulated the “heroic veterans” of World War II on the annual Day of Victory over Fascism, with Government members offering tributes to the servicemembers who gave their lives in the conflict.
Georgia is today celebrating the 77th anniversary of the victory over the Nazi Germany by allied forces in World War II. On the occasion of the annual May 9 celebrations, the Ministry of Health and Tbilisi City Hall will provide one-time financial assistance to World War II veterans and family members of deceased servicemembers.
Tbilisi City Hall has provided financial assistance to World War II veterans and family members of deceased servicemembers for the celebrations of the 77th anniversary of the victory over fascism in World War II.
Georgia is today celebrating the 72nd anniversary of Victory Day when Nazi Germany surrendered to the Soviet Union to mark the end of the Second World War.
The Georgian Government on Monday announced it would provide one-time financial assistance to World War II veterans and family members of deceased servicemembers to mark the 78th anniversary of the victory over the Nazi Germany by Allied forces in 1945.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday said “90 percent of Georgians” shared “conservative views and family-based values”, in response to a question by a reporter on whether he represented a majority of the country’s citizens at an event marking the 78th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Tuesday congratulated Georgian veterans of World War II on the 78th anniversary of victory over the Nazi Germany and called them “heroes” who had defeated the “greatest evil”.