Parliament Speaker’s New Year message: May 2023 bring victories, new opportunities to country, everyone
Despite the “unprecedented” international fluctuations and crises, Georgia has maintained peace and stability, the Parliament Speaker said, adding it gave hope that 2023 would bring more welfare and prosperity to “each family”. Photo: Parliament of Georgia
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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.
Papuashvili extended his “warmest” congratulations to Abkhazian and Ossetian compatriots living in the occupied territories of the country and noted they had been connected to them by “common roots and families, sharing each other's sorrows”, believing the next year would be “another step” towards the “final reconciliation and peaceful coexistence”.
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He also congratulated representatives of the Georgian Diaspora, doctors, servicemembers, police officers and firefighters, as well as Georgia’s elderly generation, who had created the present of the country with their efforts and children - the future of Georgia.
Our state [Georgia] passed the year proudly. With unity and firmness, it coped with many difficulties and achieved various historical successes”, Papuashvili noted, adding the country had received the European perspective from the European Union and had been heading toward EU membership.
Despite the “unprecedented” international fluctuations and crises, Georgia has maintained peace and stability, the Parliament Speaker said, adding it gave hope that 2023 would bring more welfare and prosperity to “each family”.
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 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”.
Georgian parliament speaker Shalva Papuashvili on Thursday said the majority of the European Union conditions for granting Georgia the membership candidate status would be fulfilled by the end of December and noted that the implementation of the rest depended on the assessments of the Council of Europe's Venice Commission and the constructive cooperation of the opposition.
The state's “primary responsibility” is to ensure human rights protection and today it is important to discuss the new document of the Government-approved 2022-2030 National Human Rights Strategy. Within the framework of the document, the country must ensure and implement its obligations to respect human rights, Shalva Papuashvili, the Georgian Parliament Speaker said on Saturday at the event dedicated to Human Rights Day.
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.