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A meeting with representatives of the “International Consulting Center” from United Arab Emirates was held in the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia. The meeting was attended by the Minister Davit Narmania, Deputy Ministers – Giorgi Solomonia and Giorgi Amashukeli, Chairman of Tbilisi Sakrebulo Irakli Shikhiashvili, Executive Director of the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia Elguja Khokrishvili and his Deputy Teimuraz Murgulia, representatives of the Road Department and Tbilisi Sakrebulo.

2013 was a year of challenges for the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure. Despite the problems and difficulties that the Ministry inherited from the previous government, the Ministry handled them successfully. We had to re-examine various projects and forward more than 10 cases to the law enforcement bodies. After the arrival of the new management, approaches towards project planning and implementation have completely changed; tenders became transparent and competitive;

Today, the Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Accommodation and Refugees of Georgia, Mr. Davit Darakhvelidze and his Deputy, Mr. Mamuka Tsotniashvili, the First Deputy Executive Director of the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia, Mr. Teimuraz Murgulia, and the Director of the USAID Mr. Steven Heiken presented keys of apartments to 134 IDP families in Zestaponi.

Georgia and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have entered into agreements on financing sizeable infrastructural projects for the benefit of Georgia. These agreements were signed by the Minister of Finance, Nodar Khaduri, Director General, Central and West Asia Department (CWRD) of ADB, Klaus Gerhaeusser, Executive Director of the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia, Elguja Khokrishvili and Director of the United Water Supply Company of Georgia, Archil Tsabutashvili.

Today, the Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia Mr. David Narmania and the Executive Director of the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia met Mr. Klaus Gerhaeusser, Director General, Central and West Asia Department (CWRD) of ADB.

Water supply system improvement works will start in conflict zone bordering 9 villages of Shida Kartli. The project cot for civil works amounts to GEL 1 115 000.00. The works will be implemented by the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia, and will be funded from its own budget.

A regular session of the inter-agency commission dealing with infrastructural project-related problems was held in the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia.

The Minister of Regional Development and Infrastructure of Georgia – Mr. Davit Narmania and Executive Director of the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia – Mr. Elguja Khokrishvili met with management of the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The discussion was concerning infrastructural projects already funded and to be funded by the Bank.

Pirikita Khevsureti and Piraketa Khevsureti will get connected through a 25 km road section. Presentation of the new road construction project was held in Rustaveli Theater. The event was attended by Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia His Holiness Ilia II, the Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development of Georgia Davit Narmania, Executive Director of the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia Elguja Khokrishvili and the World Bank representative. Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia delivered an address to the public gathered in Rustaveli Theatre, and emphasized particular importance of the road construction project.

The regular meeting of the Economic, Energy, and Trade Working Group of the US-Georgia Strategic Partnership Commission was held in the US State Department, Washington D.C. From the Georgian side the working group was co-chaired by Mr. Davit Zalkaliani – the First Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia and Mr. Mikheil Janelidze - the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia. The working group meeting was also attended by Mr. Elguja Khokrishvili – Executive Director of the Municipal Development Fund of Georgia.