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Day: April 20, 2024
On April 2O, women and youth marches were held against the Foreign Agents law. The women’s protest also concerned the recent abolition of the mandatory women quotas for political parties in electoral lists.
Dozens of women gathered at 17:00 at the First Republic Square, marching down the Rustaveli avenue to the Parliament building where they held the rally. “We, the women, choose Europe. No to Russian Law” a demonstrator’s sign read. “Not fragile like a lower, fragile like a bomb,” “Give us back quotas!” read other signs.
Women’s March, April 20, 2024, Photo: Guram Muradov/ Civil.ge
“The vast majority of Georgia’s population believe that women’s place is in politics. The population of Georgia believes that women and men should be fifty-fifty in the Parliament. But the Georgian Dream, which has decided that it wants to get more men in the Parliament, abolished the quotas in couple of days underhandedly,” Baia Pataraia, a Georgian feminist activist and the director of the women’s rights organization Sapari addressed the crowd, calling on the ruling party to bring back the quotas.
At 19:00 Tbilisi time the youth marched again in Tbilisi in protest to the Foreign Agents Law, first gathering near Parliament building and blocking Rustaveli avenue, then heading towards the Presidential palace, after which they went to the Government administration, chanting “No to Russian Law!”
Youth marching towards President’s Administration, April 20, 2024 Photo: Ana Kurashvili
“There is no greater happiness than the youth of your country, the future of the country, coming to the Presidential palace to say thank you. I also thank you for being free and dignified, strong and righteous. I am not afraid, in your hands this country will be European, democratic, and most importantly independent and very Georgian. We will go through this path together!” President Salome Zurabishvili reacted to the youth march on Facebook.
The police, their faces covered with medical masks, were mobilized at the Georgian government administration building, because at some point the information spread that the youth were going to march there too. This time, however, the government building was not one of the targets of the march.
More to follow…
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On April 2O, women and youth marches were held against the Foreign Agents law. The women’s protest also concerned the recent abolition of the mandatory women quotas for political parties in electoral lists.
Dozens of women gathered at 17:00 at the First Republic Square, marching down the Rustaveli avenue to the Parliament building where they held the rally. “We, the women, choose Europe. No to Russian Law” a demonstrator’s sign read. “Not fragile like a lower, fragile like a bomb,” “Give us back quotas!” read other signs.
Women’s March, April 20, 2024, Photo: Guram Muradov/ Civil.ge
“The vast majority of Georgia’s population believe that women’s place is in politics. The population of Georgia believes that women and men should be fifty-fifty in the Parliament. But the Georgian Dream, which has decided that it wants to get more men in the Parliament, abolished the quotas in couple of days underhandedly,” Baia Pataraia, a Georgian feminist activist and the director of the women’s rights organization Sapari addressed the crowd, calling on the ruling party to bring back the quotas.
At 19:00 Tbilisi time the youth marched again in Tbilisi in protest to the Foreign Agents Law, first gathering near Parliament building and blocking Rustaveli avenue, then heading towards the Presidential palace, after which they went to the Government administration, chanting “No to Russian Law!”
Youth marching towards President’s Administration, April 20, 2024 Photo: Ana Kurashvili
“There is no greater happiness than the youth of your country, the future of the country, coming to the Presidential palace to say thank you. I also thank you for being free and dignified, strong and righteous. I am not afraid, in your hands this country will be European, democratic, and most importantly independent and very Georgian. We will go through this path together!” President Salome Zurabishvili reacted to the youth march on Facebook.
The police, their faces covered with medical masks, were mobilized at the Georgian government administration building, because at some point the information spread that the youth were going to march there too. This time, however, the government building was not one of the targets of the march.
More to follow…
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The head of the European Council, the Foreign Ministries of Türkıye and Germany congratulate Baku and Yerevan, but Moscow and Tehran are silent
Following the United States and the UN, yesterday’s agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia was welcomed today by the head of the European Council Charles Michel, the Foreign Ministries of Türkıye and Germany.
However, the closest neighbors — Moscow and Tehran do not seem to be happy with the peaceful progress of the process and are stubbornly silent.
Charles Michel said in hıs statement: “Warmly welcome the agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the 1991 Alma Ata Declaration as the basis for border delimitation between the two countries.
Border delimitation based on the unambiguous recognition of the territorial integrity of each country has been a key element also of discussions in Brussels and will serve as an essential step towards normalisation and the peaceful opening of the entire region”.
In a statement, of the German Foreign Ministry said that “the agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia on border delimitation based on the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration removes an important obstacle to a peace agreement. Germany stands ready to provide all possible support on the path to lasting peace.”
The Turkish Foreign Ministry also welcomes the agreements reached on April 19 by the Azerbaijani-Armenian commission on border delimitation.
“We gladly welcome the agreement reached on the return to Azerbaijan of four villages occupied for 30 years and the continuation of delimitation work.
This positive development, achieved through direct negotiations, is an important step towards signing a final peace agreement.”
Russia is clearly not happy that the issue is being resolved without Moscow, and Iran suddenly realized that the opening of the Zangezur corridor ıs the next step, and its role as a transit country for communication between Azerbaijan and its Nakhchivan region would be greatly weakened.
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The head of the European Council, the Foreign Ministries of Türkıye and Germany congratulate Baku and Yerevan, but Moscow and Tehran are silent
Following the United States and the UN, yesterday’s agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia was welcomed today by the head of the European Council Charles Michel, the Foreign Ministries of Türkıye and Germany.
However, the closest neighbors — Moscow and Tehran do not seem to be happy with the peaceful progress of the process and are stubbornly silent.
Charles Michel said in hıs statement: “Warmly welcome the agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the 1991 Alma Ata Declaration as the basis for border delimitation between the two countries.
Border delimitation based on the unambiguous recognition of the territorial integrity of each country has been a key element also of discussions in Brussels and will serve as an essential step towards normalisation and the peaceful opening of the entire region”.
In a statement, of the German Foreign Ministry said that “the agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia on border delimitation based on the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration removes an important obstacle to a peace agreement. Germany stands ready to provide all possible support on the path to lasting peace.”
The Turkish Foreign Ministry also welcomes the agreements reached on April 19 by the Azerbaijani-Armenian commission on border delimitation.
“We gladly welcome the agreement reached on the return to Azerbaijan of four villages occupied for 30 years and the continuation of delimitation work.
This positive development, achieved through direct negotiations, is an important step towards signing a final peace agreement.”
Russia is clearly not happy that the issue is being resolved without Moscow, and Iran suddenly realized that the opening of the Zangezur corridor ıs the next step, and its role as a transit country for communication between Azerbaijan and its Nakhchivan region would be greatly weakened.
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The head of the European Council, the Foreign Ministries of Türkıye and Germany congratulate Baku and Yerevan, but Moscow and Tehran are silent
Following the United States and the UN, yesterday’s agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia was welcomed today by the head of the European Council Charles Michel, the Foreign Ministries of Türkıye and Germany.
However, the closest neighbors — Moscow and Tehran do not seem to be happy with the peaceful progress of the process and are stubbornly silent.
Charles Michel said in hıs statement: “Warmly welcome the agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan on the 1991 Alma Ata Declaration as the basis for border delimitation between the two countries.
Border delimitation based on the unambiguous recognition of the territorial integrity of each country has been a key element also of discussions in Brussels and will serve as an essential step towards normalisation and the peaceful opening of the entire region”.
In a statement, of the German Foreign Ministry said that “the agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia on border delimitation based on the 1991 Alma-Ata Declaration removes an important obstacle to a peace agreement. Germany stands ready to provide all possible support on the path to lasting peace.”
The Turkish Foreign Ministry also welcomes the agreements reached on April 19 by the Azerbaijani-Armenian commission on border delimitation.
“We gladly welcome the agreement reached on the return to Azerbaijan of four villages occupied for 30 years and the continuation of delimitation work.
This positive development, achieved through direct negotiations, is an important step towards signing a final peace agreement.”
Russia is clearly not happy that the issue is being resolved without Moscow, and Iran suddenly realized that the opening of the Zangezur corridor ıs the next step, and its role as a transit country for communication between Azerbaijan and its Nakhchivan region would be greatly weakened.
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