Georgian President wishes to meet 2023 with unity, solidarity in New Year message
The President congratulated the Georgian Diaspora and urged them to return to Georgia, while also sending best wishes to the compatriots from the country’s occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions. Photo: Presidential Administration
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Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili congratulated the Georgian people on New Year, wishing them happiness, health, and success and to meet the new 2023 with “unity and solidarity”.
Zourabichvili said 2022 had been a year of “great expectations” and European hope, as well as partial disappointment, and noted the European Union's decision to grant Georgia a European perspective was “unanimous” recognition of the country as part of Europe, adding that 2023 would be” a year of Europe”.
She stressed the last year had been the “hardest” one for Ukrainians, amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, and had shown the world how to fight to the end for the country’s independence and freedom, adding Georgians had undergone the same path [in 2008 Russia-Georgia war] and accordingly demonstrated “miraculous” solidarity with their “friend country” - Ukraine - in “all possible forms”.
The President congratulated the Georgian Diaspora and urged them to return to Georgia, while also sending best wishes to the compatriots from the country’s occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) regions.
The official also congratulated the Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia Ilia II, who has been “giving hope” to Georgian people for the “next year and following years”.
Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili marked the annual domestic Diplomat’s Day by saying the professional day of envoys and diplomats “really belongs to everyone who has contributed to the protection of Georgia's interests”.
Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili on Monday said meeting the European Union’s 12-point conditions for granting the country the membership candidate status was a “challenge” for the country, adding Georgia was not competing with “anyone but itself” in the process.
Nothing will change Georgia’s determination to pursue its path toward the European Union and NATO membership, President Salome Zourabichvili said on Thursday in an interview with the French magazine Marie Claire.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has congratulated the Georgian population on New Year’s Eve wishing for 2023 to bring nation-wide unity, peace, materialising hopes, greater love, mutual respect, prosperity and success.
Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili, on behalf of the Parliament of Georgia, wished Happy New Year to the Georgian people, wishing for 2023 to bring victories and new opportunities to each individual and the country.
We should remember that the future of humans and nations should be peaceful, the Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia Ilia II said in his New Year address, while wishing Georgian people health and a peaceful future.
Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze congratulated New Year to all Georgians, Abkhazian and Ossetian compatriots living in the occupied territories of Georgia, wishing peace, love and prosperity to all the families around the world, from the country’s “beautiful” and “tolerant” capital city Tbilisi.
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili on Tuesday congratulated Georgian citizens, who celebrate the Nowruz holiday, especially Azerbaijani compatriots marking the “arrival of spring”.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Sunday congratulated citizens on New Year’s Eve by saying that 2023 had been a “truly special year of abundant success and progress in the recent history of our country”.