The Parliamentary Majority and Embassy of Lithuania to Georgia organized the meeting on „Traffic Safety Reform – Lithuanian success”. According to the Majority Leader, Archil Talakvadze, experience of Lithuania is important as the Parliament keeps consideration of the draft on Traffic Safety. “The Parliament supported the draft with the I reading, aiming at protection of life and health and increase of safety standards towards all actors of the traffic – drivers, passengers and pedestrians”.
He echoed the international championship of truck rally held in Rustavi on April 2. “The championship opened in Georgia will be held in 9 more countries. Yesterday, the strongest and most successful pilots of the world fought for victory on Rustavi track. The main message of this competition was traffic safety. The event was aired by more than 82 media companies and was watched by more than million people. Georgia has demonstrated itself in new angle in world motor sport sphere”.
According to the Lithuanian Ambassador, Giedrius Puodžiūnas, traffic is the most safe in Sweden and most fatal in Romania and Bulgaria. Results in Lithuania entailed reduction of accidents with 22%. We take particular attention to relations between our countries and try to share our practical experience to be valuable for Georgia in this term”, - he stated.
The Head of Study and Analysis Board, Shalva Khabuliani spoke about the legislative changes initiated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The changes contain three components: rational responsibility system; effective enforcement; increase of role of technologies. In view of increase preventive component, MIA establishes the 100-point system on driver’s license and each offence will result in deprivation of points. In case of reduction of points to zero during the calendar year, the license shall be deprived and the driver shall re-pass exams no earlier than 2 months after deprivation. It shall apply to Georgian and international licenses to prevent inequality. Penalties for excessive speed will be established according to the gradational system. Contactless patrol police will be granted authority to use speed meters installed on the vehicles without identification signs.
The Head of Traffic Safety Board at Road Administration of Lithuanian Transport and Communication Ministry spoke about Lithuanian example of traffic safety reform, envisaging change of approaches, improvement of road engineering and infrastructure and comprising sundry stages. “Traffic accident is not a fate. 90% of accidents are entailed with negligence. Change of public awareness cannot be rapidly reached so you can change milieu and improve road engineering and infrastructure”.
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Parliament Speaker: We leave doors open for parties to join
Parliament Speaker Archil Talakvadze is grateful to the European Council President Charles Michel and special envoy Christian Danielsson for their mediation leadership.
“Even though the opposition was not ready to sign, we’ll guide judicial and electoral reforms by Danielsson’s proposal. We leave doors open for parties to join,” Talakvadze tweeted.
The ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party and the opposition could not agree on a solution, Christian Danielsson briefed reporters following the hours-long joint meeting between GD and the opposition on Tuesday.
The opposition failed to provide any evidence on elections fraud. But, we showed evidence that the radical opposition forged the parallel vote tabulation (PVT) results”, Irakli Kobakhidze, the Chairman of the Georgian Dream party, said after a joint meeting mediated by EU mediator Christian Danielsson.
“Today, the international partners presented a document in which there was no record, either directly or indirectly, on any snap elections,” he added.
Kobakhidze stated that the document by Danielsson included GD’s proposal on Nika Melia’s case. “In particular, in case of paying bail, Georgian Dream pledged to ensure application of amnesty bill in the June 20th case. However, the opposition rejected this solution,” he said.
Christian Danielsson, a personal envoy of the European Council President Charles Michel, said after the talks today that none of the parties agreed on a solution.
Besides, EU mediator Christian Danielson published the proposals made to political parties.
Danielsson said he proposed a solution to the parties that puts the country interest first, but none of the political parties could agree to it. EU mediator has already left for Brussels.
Danielsson returned to Tbilisi for the second time on Sunday to help the opposition and the government reaching an agreement. He first arrived in Tbilisi on March 12. After a five-day mediation that ended with no result, he left the country.
Charles Michel announced on March 22 that Christian Danielsson would travel back to Georgia to help the parties to agree.
The Georgian opposition parties that won seats in the Georgian Parliament of the 10th Convocation believe the 2020 parliamentary elections were a fraud. They have been demanding repeat parliamentary elections and the release of the United National Movement Chair, Nika Melia, and the co-founder of the TV channel Mtavari Arkhi Giorgi Rurua.
Source: https://1tv.ge/en/news/parliament-speaker-we-leave-doors-open-for-parties-to-join/
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The Parliament hosted the 100th jubilee of the first Constitution of Georgia.
The Speaker, Archil Talakvadze and the descendant of the great public figure, 10-years-old Ekvtime Takaishvili opened the Museum of Georgian Parliamentarism named after Ekvtime Takaishvili.
The Museum includes four halls exposing the central, “Hall of Glory” and various eras. The exhibits include documents reflecting the history of Parliamentarism since 1919 stored in the archives and depositories of Georgia and other countries.
The visitors will enjoy the exposition about the “Chamber” from King Tamar’s era considered as the very first attempt of the establishment of Parliamentarism in Georgia.
As Givi Mikanadze stated, the Civic Engagement Center is to be established in the Parliament within the Open Governance program allowing the citizens to get informed about the Parliament. The idea of the Museum has been born in the preceding Parliament and was developed by the Working Group composed of the representatives of the Archive of the Interior Ministry, Central Archive of Justice Ministry, National Library, Council of Heraldry, and Ministry of Culture.
“The Center will be open for the tourists, pupils, students and every person concerned. It will inform the visitors about the development of the history of Parliamentarism in Georgia for 100 years”, - he stated.
The Museum allocates the documents reflecting the Soviet repressions, as well as various materials evidencing the activity of the Parliament of Georgia since 1990, and the photo material reflecting close cooperation of the Parliament with the international organizations.
The Museum is equipped with modern technologies and is to host a wide range of visitors, including the school children and students. It has a hall where the visitors will watch the 30-minute documentary.
As the Deputy Chair of the Foreign Relations Committee, Mariam Lashkhi noted, it is not accidental that the Museum is named after Ekvtime Takaishvili. “Ekvtime Takaishvili has contributed truly invaluable merit in maintenance and preservation of our treasures. The heritage of Georgian Parliamentarism is based on the heritage preserved by Ekvtime Takaishvili along with the members of the Constituent Council for our democracy. I hope we will keep this heritage in a dignified manner”, - she stated.
The opening ceremony was attended by the President of Georgia, Speaker of the Parliament, Majority Leader, Chairs of the Factions, MPs, candidate for the Prime Minister, Chair of the Constitutional Court, Chairs of the Governments and Supreme Councils of Autonomous Republics, and the descendants of Ekvtime Takaishvili.
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The Speaker, H.E. Archil Talakvadze held the meeting with the Ambassador of Azerbaijan, H.E. Faig Guliyev.
At the introductory meeting, the parties discussed the historical friendly and partnership relations between the parties and stressed the inter-Parliamentary cooperation.
The parties underlined the importance of the close contacts between the Friendship Groups and dwelt on the importance of peace and security in the region.
The parties touched upon the global pandemic and the related challenges and noted the necessity of rapid restoration of the trade links and tourism as the top priority for both countries.
The Speaker wished good luck to the Ambassador and expressed his commitment to cooperation.
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The Speaker, H.E. Archil Talakvadze held the farewell meeting with the Head of CoE Georgia Office, Mr. Cristian Urse and discussed the relations between the Georgian Parliament and the CoE and the future cooperation prospects.
The Speaker thanked the diplomat for his personal contribution in democratic development of the country and wished good luck in his further career.
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The Speaker, H.E. Archil Talakvadze held the introductory meeting with the newly appointed Ambassador of China to discuss the bilateral relations and the cooperation agenda.
As noted, political, trade-economic, cultural and people-to-people relations are the directions Georgia and China are to adhere to in further cooperation.
The parties dwelt on the Silk Road Project “One Belt One Road”, which is of the strategic importance for Georgia and Georgia, in terms of security, economic integration and infrastructural update is committed for this mission.
The parties touched upon transit and investment capacities of Georgia and stressed importance of inter-Parliamentary ties.
The Ambassador reaffirmed support to territorial integrity and sovereignty of Georgia and underlined that China strongly respects the choice Georgian people has opted for development. In his turn, the Speaker expressed intact support of Georgia to “One-China” policy.
The Speaker wished good luck to the Ambassador and expressed commitment for close cooperation.
The meeting was attended by the Head of Georgia-China Friendship Group, Otar Danelia.
