Time in Tbilisi: April 28, 2024 22:37
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday highlighted the long-running tradition of winemaking on the territory of Georgia in his address at the formal launch of ITB Berlin, a major international tourism fair showcasing Georgia as the Host Country in the German capital.
Garibashvili told the audience of the event the international scientific community had recognised the findings of the earliest traces of winemaking, discovered in Georgian territory over the recent years and dating back 8,000 years.
Georgia has over 500 oldest local varieties of grapes, which cover almost all regions of Georgia. Historically, in a wine country almost every family had their own small wine cellars", Garibashvili said.
He told those featuring in the launch the viticulture had then spread from its origins on the territory of the modern country to other parts of the world, making a mark on the “development of agriculture, culture, biology, medicine and, in general, civilisations”.
Praise to the vine – a polyphonic song titled as You Are the Vineyard - became a kind of national anthem. This is the prayer of a Georgian man, for whom his estate, the vine and the Christianizing cross of Georgians bound with vines stand at the same height. The history of Christianity does not know a similar and - at the same time - more poetic form of conversion to Christianity", Garibashvili added.
The Georgian PM also highlighted the 2013 inscription of the traditional kvevri wine storage method from Georgia on the UNESCO List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
He also noted his Government’s efforts of signing trade deals with the European Union, including measures that he said helped promote Georgian wine abroad.
“I am proud to have had the honour to sign the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area Agreement [with the EU] in July 2016, which has increased the awareness of, and demand on, Georgian wine on international markets”, the Government head told the audience at the event.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday told the audience of the opening event of ITB Berlin, a major international tourism fair featuring Georgia as the Host Country, that the country’s citizens were “directing all their efforts to the objective of becoming hosts in Europe”.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday highlighted Georgia as a historical “epicentre of many civilisations”, a “target of great empires” and “subject of disputes” between them “over millennia”, in his comments at the opening of ITB Berlin, a major international tourism fair featuring Georgia as the Host Country.
David Ruetz, the Senior Vice President of Messe Berlin, the fairgrounds hosting the major international tourism fair ITB Berlin, on Monday said choosing Georgia as the Host Country of the event had been an "excellent choice”.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday launched this year’s edition of ITB Berlin, a major international tourism fair running in the German capital and featuring Georgia as the Host Country, by highlighting hospitality as a “trademark” of the country to an audience of 2,500 in the opening event.
Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey on Monday welcomed a Georgian delegation and the country’s Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili to the launch of ITB, a major international tourism fair celebrating Georgia as its Host Country, and expressed a “great desire” to make “Georgians feel at home in Berlin”.
Zurab Pololikashvili, the Secretary-General of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation, on Monday expressed his “deep gratitude” to the Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili for the country’s “esteemed hosting” of ITB Berlin, a major international tourism fair running in the German capital through Thursday.
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday delivered a keynote speech at the opening event for the ITB Berlin international tourism fair that is showcasing Georgia as its Host Country in the German capital. Agenda.ge offers its readers the full speech of the Georgian official.
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