Gov’t launches information campaign on services for ethnic minorities in Georgia
Questions related to Georgia's European and Euro-Atlantic integration, along with the “anti-Western propaganda and disinformation” will also be included in the campaign. Photo: Screenshot from the Ministry's video
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The Georgian Government has launched a “large-scale” information campaign in southern Georgia’s two municipalities, predominantly populated by ethnic minorities, to provide locals with information about state programmes and services, the Office of the State Minister for Civil Equality announced on Thursday.
Minister Tea Akhvlediani launched the campaign and met with the local population of villages of the Bolnisi and Dmanisi municipalities during which she noted the initiative would cover the whole Kvemo Kartli region.
She said the Government’s continued “maximum efforts” to ensure equal opportunities for citizens regardless of ethnicity, and stressed the importance of their “proper involvement”, the Ministry said. Photo: Office of the State Minister of Georgia for Reconciliation and Civic Equality
Questions related to Georgia's European and Euro-Atlantic integration, along with the “anti-Western propaganda and disinformation” will also be included in the campaign, with Akhvlediani saying the issues had a “particularly negative” impact on the civil integration process in the country.
The ongoing strategic review of the Government’s reconciliation and engagement policies was discussed by Tea Akhvlediani, the Georgian State Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality, with women and young people living in the villages of western Georgia's Zugdidi municipality, near the line separating the Russian-occupied Abkhazia region from the Georgian-controlled territory, the Ministry announced on Friday.
The cooperation of Georgian state agencies with the United States in implementation of its civil equality and integration policy was discussed on Thursday in a meeting between Tea Akhvlediani, Georgia’s State Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality and Peter Wiebler, the Mission Director of the Georgian office of the US Agency for International Development.
Tea Akhvlediani, the Georgian State Minister for Reconciliation and Civil Equality, on Thursday highlighted the “foundational” significance of promoting knowledge of state language in comments marking the Georgian Language Day, at awards for graduates of a programme of ambassadors of state language.
The cooperation between the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe agencies and Georgian authorities was discussed in a meeting involving Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Kairat Abdrakhmanov, the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, on Wednesday.
Dunja Mijatović, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, on Tuesday urged the Georgian Government to address the “underlying reasons” behind discrimination and intolerance towards LGBTQI people, religious and other minority groups in the country.