The Meeting of the Government of Georgia was held on 28 July 2006. The Agenda consisted of 20 items.
At the beginning of the Meeting, Prime Minister of Georgia Zurab Noghaideli welcomed the reshuffled members of the Government of Georgia and wished them, particularly the new members (Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Davit Tkeshelashvili and State Minister of Georgia for Resolution of Conflicts Merab Antadze) success in their service.
The Prime Minister of Georgia focused on the recent developments in Kodori Gorge, as a result of which the state order had been re-established and the jurisdiction of the Government of Georgia had been re-instated in that critically important region of Georgia. The Prime Minister of Georgia said the event was the first step made to that end.
He expressed thanks to those who had taken part in the anti-criminal police measures in the Gorge, saying that it was very important to improve the social-economic condition of the residents of Kodori Gorge, namely to take urgent measures to restore healthcare, education and communication facilities and supply foodstuffs and articles of daily necessity. The Prime Minister of Georgia also said that it was very important to see that the Government of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia would be accommodated in Kodori Gorge where adequate working conditions must be created for it.
The Prime Minister of Georgia assigned Jambul Bakuradze, the Deputy Head of the Chancellery of the Government of Georgia, the Head of the Department for Regional Affairs, to coordinate the fulfillment of those works and attract investments to that end within the nearest future.
The Prime Minister of Georgia also touched upon the results of his 25-27 July visit to NATO Headquarters in Brussels. He said that the visit had been a success and that another step towards NATO integration had been made and that they had started work to prepare the action plan for starting an intensified dialogue with the organization. He expressed hope that NATO integration would be an irreversible process that was very important for the development of Georgia, for strengthening the democratization process in the country, for further implementation or the economic reforms and for the security of the state.
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