вемсахуреби

саьарЫвелос
2007. 3

gilocavT
Soba-axal wels
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sruliad saqarTvelos, saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul
Zalebsa da TiToeul samxedro mosamsaxures
vulocav damdeg axal wels. 2008 weli yofiliyos
reformebis, siaxleebis da rac mTavaria qveynis
gaerTianebis weliwadi.

gansakuTrebiT minda mivuloco im samxedroebs,

romlebic samSvido misiiT sxvadasxva qveynebSi
imyofebian. minda maT samSobloSi mSvidobiT
dabruneba vusurvo.

daviT kezeraSvili
saqarTvelos Tavdacvis ministri

I wish Happy New to Georgia, to the Georgian Armed

Forces and to each military servant. Let 2008 be
the year of reforms, innovations and reunification
of our country. I want to send special congratulations
to the Georgian peacekeepers performing their
mission abroad. I wish them to return to their
homeland safe and sound.

David Kezerashvili
Minister of Defence of Georgia

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 sarCevi
mimoxilva/Review

saqarTvelos prezidentma
12 saukeTeso oficeri
daajildova
President of Georgia awarded the

12
vemsaxurebi saqarTvelos best 12 officers

saqarTvelos Tavdacvis
saministros
yovelkvartaluri Jurnali
#3. 2007
aqcenti/Spotlight
2007
ZiriTadi miRwevebi
SeiaraRebuli Zalebis
reformirebis procesSi

Jurnali momzadda 2007

saqarTvelos Tavdacvis Main Achievements in Reforming
saministros sazogadoebriv
saqmeTa departamentSi.
Process of the Georgian
Armed Forces 4
redaqtori: nana inwkirveli

Jurnalze muSaobdnen:
rusudan cimakuriZe,
14 stumari/Guest

vladimer sokori:
saqarTvelo moqmedebs,
nini baqraZe, rogorc nato-s de faqto
xatia yuraSvili, wevri qveyana
Tea WoniSvili,
Vladimir Socor:
nino gogoCiSvili,
Georgia is already Behaving like
Salva londariZe, a De Facto Member
daviT joxaZe, of NATO
nino rusaZe, mTavari Tema/Main Topic
Tea kerZevaZe,
mindia arabuli,
malxaz Tofuria
ruseTis bazebis gayvanis
procesi dasrulda
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Withdrawal of Russian Bases
Completed
JurnalSi dabeWdilia
nana inwkirvelis,
koba brolaSvilis,
ivane Slamovis,
beso gulaSvilis, irakli
gedeniZis, daviT joxaZisa da
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persona
mixeil yelberaSvilis Profile
fotoebi.
`afxazeTi
oqrosferia,
misamarTi: mze iq
general kvinitaZis quCa #20 sxvagvarad
tel: 911963, 910645 Cadis~
samSvidobo misia “Abkhazia is
ISSN 1512-4891 Peacekeeping mission Golden,
Sunset is Unusual
daibeWda Sps sezanSi
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reportaJi wiTeli zonidan there”
Reporting from the Red Zone
 nato da saqarTvelo
NATO and Georgia

nato-Si integracia

48
eqsperti/Expert
qar­Tu­li ar­mia re­gion­Si
an­ga­riS­ga­sa­we­vi Za­la xde­ba
qarTveli xalxisa da
mTavrobis arCevania
Membership in NATO is 62
the choice and destiny spec-proeqti/SPEC-project
of Georgian people and
the government rezervistTa momzadeba

54
grZeldeba
GEORGIAN ARMY BECoMES Military Training
CONSIDERABLE FORCE IN REGION of Reservists Continues

persona/Profile

maiori babunaSvili
diplomatiur
samsaxurSi midis

From Combat Unit to

Diplomatic Career

82 satelevizio proeqtidan realur jarSi

From TV Project to the real Army 74
istoria da Tanamedroveoba nano kvinitaZe:
Past and Present mamis ocneba asrulda
_saqarTvelo
`...da me vyviri Tavisufalia
afxazeTi Cemi!~
Nano Kvinitadze:
AND I CRY – The dream of my father
ABKHAZIA!

88 94
came true -
Georgia is Free

100 sainformacio dRe

bundesveris akademiaSi

information Day
in bundeswehr academy

mimoxilva/Review
`vemsaxurebiT maT,
,,samSoblos siyvaruliT
vinc msaxurobs~
Cadeqi qveynis samsaxurSi!~
“With the love of Georgia
_ serve your country”
“We Serve those
Who Serves” 104 107
 2007
aqcenti/Spotlight

ZiriTadi miRwevebi
SeiaraRebuli Zalebis
reformirebis procesSi
nato-sTan individualuri partniorobis
samoqmedo gegmiT aRebuli valdebulebebis
warmatebiT Sesrulebis Sedegad saqarTvelo
ukve erTi welia nato-sTan urTierTobis
ufro maRal safexurze - intensiuri dialo-
gis etapze gadavida.
intensiuri dialogis farglebSi aRebulia mniS­
vnelovani damatebiTi valdebulebebi da mimdi­
nareobs maTi intensiuri implementacia. nato-sTan
Catarebuli konsultaciebisas, 2007 wels, Tav­
dacvis sferoSi gatarebulma reformebma maqsi­
malurad dadebiTi Sefaseba miiRo nato-s wevri
qveynebisa da nato-s saerTaSoriso Stabebis mxri­
dan. gaZlierebuli tempebiT grZeldeba muSaoba
As a result of successful implementation of
commitments undertaken in the framework
of the Individual Partnership Action Plan
(IPAP), Georgia has moved to a higher stage
in cooperation with NATO - Intensified Dia-
logue.
In the framework of Intensified Dialogue, additional important
commitments were undertaken and the process of implementa-
tion is underway. During consultations with NATO in 2007, re-
forms in the defense sphere have been highly evaluated by the Al-
liance member countries and by NATO’s international staff. In
order to implement all additional commitments by/before their
deadlines, serious activities are ongoing.

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Main Achievements in Reforming
Process of the Georgian
Armed Forces
Today, Georgia has modern, effective, NATO interoperable, well-
equipped and trained Armed Forces, capable to defend the coun-
try from military aggression and at the same time they make their
contribution to International Peacekeeping Operations.
Infrastructure
During 2006-2007 the main military infrastructure has been
significantly improved. Modern, NATO standard infrastructure
has been built to replace much of the old one. A super modern
military base was built in Senaki and a military hospital was con-
structed in Gori, equipped with the newest medical apparatus,
(the military hospital serves military, as well as civilians). By the
end of 2007, construction of a NATO standard military base will
senakis samxedro baza
2007
darCenili valdebulebebis vadaSi da vadaze adre
Sesasruleblad.
saqarTvelos dResdReobiT hyavs Tanamedrove, efeq­
turi, nato-sTan Tavsebadi, saTanadod aRWurvili da
gawvrTnili SeiaraRebuli Zalebi, romlebic uzrun­
velyofen qveynis dacvas samxedro agresiisagan da
sakuTari mniSvnelovani wvlili SeaqvT saerTaSori­
so samSvidobo operaciebSi.
infrastruqtura
2006-2007 wlis ganmavlobaSi mniSvnelovnad gaum­
jobesda ZiriTadi samxedro infrastruqtura. sabWoTa
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proeqtis moZvelebuli bazebis nacvlad aSenda Tana­
medrove, nato-s standartebis mqone infrastruqtu­
ra: superTanamedrove samxedro baza senakSi, uaxlesi
samedicino teqnikiT aRWurvili samxedro hospitali
gorSi (emsaxureba rogorc samxedro, aseve samoqalaqo
pirebs), am wlis bolomde gorSive dasruldeba nato-s
standartebis Sesabamisi samxedro qalaqis mSeneblo­
ba, xolo 2008 wlis bolosTvis - analogiuri samxedro
qalaqi aSendeba q. xonSi.
frangi eqspertebis daxmarebiT saCxereSi Seiqmna Tana­
medrove samTo-samxedro momzadebis skola, romelmac
nato-s mxridan umaRlesi Sefaseba daimsaxura da pro­
gramis `nato-s partnioroba mSvidobisaTvis~ farg­
lebSi misi saerTaSoriso centrad gardaqmna igegmeba.
saCxeris skolaSi, pirvelad saqarTvelos istoriaSi,
qarTveli instruqtorebis mier gaiwvrTna nato-s
qveynebis samxedro mosamsaxureebi da am pirvelma saer­
TaSoriso sawvrTnelma kursma iseTi mowoneba daim­
saxura, rom nato-s qveynebi rigSi dganan am skolaSi
damatebiTi saswavlo adgilebis mosapoveblad.
socialuri pirobebi
mniSvnelovnad gaumjobesda samxedro da samoqalaqo
mosamsaxureebis socialuri pirobebi. 2006-2007 wleb­
Si moxda maTi anazRaurebis mniSvnelovani etapobrivi
zrda da es procesi kvlavac gagrZeldeba. isini uz­
runvelyofilni arian adekvaturi samuSao pirobebiT,
Tanamedrove aRWurvilobiTa da teqnikiT.
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be completed in Gori and a similar kind of military base will be
constructed in Khoni by the end of 2008.
With the assistance of French experts, a modern mountain training
school, which also received highest acclaim, was established in Sa-
chkhere. In the framework of the Partnership for Peace program,
transformation of the school into a international center is planned.
For the first time in the history of Georgia, military members from
NATO countries were trained in Sachkhere School and this first
international training course deserved such fame; NATO countries
are within range of obtaining an additional training area.
Social Conditions
The social conditions of civil and military members have been
significantly improved. During 2006-2007, salaries increased and
this process continues. They are now provided with adequate
working conditions, modern equipment and techniques.
The Ministry of Defence has also launched a 4-year program,
which intends to provide new, modern, and comfortable apart-
ments for officer’s families.
Strategic Defence Review
For the first time in the history of Georgia, the threats facing
Georgia have been assessed, analyzed, sorted and a Strategic De-
fence Review document has been developed.
Considering the existing threats and resources, the Strategic De-
fence Review was conducted and the resulting document, which
has been approved, was positively evaluated by NATO member
countries. The SDR document defines the priorities for devel-
opment of the Georgian Armed Forces and its structure in the
short, mid and long-term periods between 2008-2015.
International peacekeeping operations
Today, Georgia has three fully NATO interoperable brigades,
which are equipped with modern military equipment and
manned by soldiers trained according to NATO requirements.
Our military units are implementing their missions effectively
and are significant contributors to international peacekeeping
operations.
From 2007, for the first in the history of our country, Georgia’s
military contingent in Iraq is serving, not as part of other coun-
try’s peacekeeping forces, but as an independent unit. It controls
the Iraqi international peacekeeping operation in the province
of Wasit.
Personnel management and 100%
Professional Army
By the end of 2009, compulsory military service will have been
abolished and each military unit will be manned with profession-
al contract-based military members.
Tavdacvis saministrom daiwyo oTxwliani progra­
mis ganxorcieleba, romelic gulisxmobs oficer­
Ta ojaxebis axali da komfortuli sacxovrebeli
binebiT uzrunvelyofas.
Tavdacvis strategiuli mimoxilva
2006 wels pirvelad saqarTvelos istoriaSi moxda
qveynis winaSe arsebuli safrTxeebis srulyofilad
Sefaseba, gaanalizeba da daxarisxeba, Seiqmna sa­
frTxeebis Sefasebis dokumenti.
aRniSnuli safrTxeebisa da qveyanaSi arsebuli
resursebis gaTvaliswinebiT, pirvelad qveynis is­
toriaSi, nato-s standartebis Sesabamisad moxda
Tavdacvis strategiuli mimoxilvis Catareba da Se­
sabamisi dokumentis damtkiceba, romelic dadebi­
Tad Sefasda nato-s wevri qveynebis mier. mocemuli
dokumentiT ganisazRvra 2008-2015 wlebSi saqarT­
velos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis ganviTarebis prior­
itetebi da SeiaraRebuli Zalebis struqtura mok­
le, saSualo da grZelvadian periodSi.
saerTaSoriso samSvidobo operaciebi
dResdReobiT, saqarTvelos gaaCnia sami, nato-sTan
srulad Tavsebadi brigada, romelic aRWurvilia
Tanamedrove samxedro teqnikiTa da gawvrTnilia
nato-s moTxovnebis Sesabamisad. Cveni samxedro qve­
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danayofebi efeqturad asruleben maTze dakisre­
bul movaleobebs da mniSvnelovani wvlili SeaqvT
saerTaSoriso samSvidobo operaciebSi.
2007 wlidan, pirvelad saqarTvelos istoriaSi, qarTu­
li samxedro kontingenti aRar imyofeba sxva qveynis
samSvidobo Zalebis SemadgenlobaSi da monawileobs
ara mxolod rogorc damoukidebeli qvedanayofi,
aramde igi xelmZRvanelobs saerTaSoriso samSvidobo
operacias erayis vasitis provinciaSi.
kadrebis marTva da 100%-iT
profesionaluri jari
2009 wlis bolos gauqmdeba savaldebulo samxedro
samsaxuri da yvela samxedro SenaerTi kontraqtis
safuZvelze dakompleqtdeba profesionali samx­
edro mosamsaxureebiT.
Tavdacvis saministro aqtiurad muSaobs samxedro
da samoqalaqo personalis marTvis sistemis gaum­
jobesebisaTvis. axali sistemis danergvis Sedegad
detalurad gaiwereba kadrebis SerCeva-Sefasebis,
dawinaurebis, gadamzadebis kriteriumebi da maqsi­
malurad gamoiricxeba Tanamdebobrivi gadaadg­
ilebisas subieqturi faqtorebis gavlena. Sesabam­
isad, Tanamdebobebze dainiSnebian saukeTeso da
saTanadod momzadebuli kadrebi.
samxedro ganaTleba
nato-sa da partniori qveynebis daxmarebiT daix­
vewa samxedro ganaTlebis sistema. saqarTvelos
erovnul samxedro akademiasa da serJantTa sko­
las ZaluZs Tanamedrove moTxovnebis Sesabamisi
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The Ministry of Defence actively works to improve the civil and
military personnel management system. After establishment of a
new system, criteria for personnel selection, assessment, promo-
tion and retraining will be determined and the influence of subjec-
tive factors on promotions will be diminished to the maximum
extent.
According to this goal, the best and most prepared personnel will
be selected for the relevant positions.
Military education
With the assistance of NATO and partner countries, the
military education system has been improved. The Military
Academy of Georgia and NCO School can prepare and train
qualified officers and sergeants in compliance with modern
requirements. These military members provide for the estab-
lishment of a very effective and NATO interoperable Geor-
gian Armed Forces.
Resource Management,
Budget Transparency
Creation of a transparent and effective resource management
system is very important for the development of Georgian
Armed Forces. The Ministry of Defence of Georgia actively
cooperates with NATO member countries and uses their sig-
nificant experience for planning of the above-mentioned sys-
tem. Certain elements of a modern planning, programming and
budgeting system, a so called PPBS, have been established at
the Ministry of Defence. The system, which will become fully
functional in 2009, will make defence planning process more
transparent and effective.
The defence budget is transparent and open for society. It is
available at the official web-site of the Defence Ministry. The
budget of the Defence Ministry is discussed by the Parliamen-
tary committee on Defence and Security in detail. The De-
fence Ministry actively cooperates with independent experts
and non-governmental organizations in order to increase the
transparency of the defence system and to engage society in
the process of building the Armed Forces of Georgia. For
this purpose, a civil council has been set up. The council dis-
cusses important issues such as, development of important
documents in defence sector, protection of military members’
rights, problems with budget expenditures and other impor-
tant issues.
Public Relations
The Public Affairs Department of the Ministry of Defence and
the Information Centre on NATO are actively implementing ac-
tivities to inform the public about ongoing reforms at the Minis-
try of Defence, to raise their awareness on NATO, its principles
and goals as a security organization, and about the importance
of Georgia’s integration into the Alliance.
Air Defence
Georgia’s air defence system has been significantly improved
and equipped with a modern system of air situation control.
By the end of 2007, Georgia will join the NATO Air Situa-
tion Data Exchange system and, as a result, NATO member
countries will receive the situation in Georgia’s airspace, by
computer interchange which will significantly reduce threats
of air space violation.
kvalifikaciis mqone oficrebisa da serJantebis
momzadeba. swored es samxedro mosamsaxureebi uz­
runvelyofen saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis
maqsimalurad efeqtur da nato-sTan srulad Tavse­
bad Zalad sabolood Camoyalibebas.
resursebis marTva, biujetis
transparentuloba
saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis mdgradi gan­
viTarebisaTvis umniSvnelovanesia gamWvirvale da
efeqturi resursebis marTvis sistemis Camoyalibeba.
aRniSnuli sistemis dagegmvis mizniT saqarTvelos Tav­
dacvis saministro aqtiurad TanamSromlobs nato-s
wevr qveynebTan da iyenebs maT mniSvnelovan gamocdile­
bas. saministroSi ukve danergilia e.w. dagegmvis, pro­
gramirebisa da biujetirebis Tanamedrove sistemis
garkveuli elementebi. sistema srulad amoqmeddeba
2009 wlidan, rac Tavdacvis dagegmvis process kidev
ufro gamWvirvales da efeqturs gaxdis.
Tavdacvis saministros biujeti maqsimalurad gax­
snilia sazogadoebisaTvis da xelmisawvdomia samin­
istos oficialur veb-gverdze. Tavdacvis biujets
detalurad ganixilavs parlamentis Tavdacvisa da
uSiSroebis komiteti. Tavdacvis sistemis transpar­
entulobis gazrdis mizniT, saqarTvelos SeiaraRe­
buli Zalebis mSeneblobis procesSi sazogadoebis
CasarTvelad, saministro aqtiurad TanamSromlobs
damoukidebel eqspertebTan da arasamTavrobo orga­
nizaciebTan. am mizniT Seqmnilia samoqalaqo sabWo,
romlis farglebSic xorcieldeba Tavdacvis seqto­
ris mniSvnelovani dokumentebis, samxedro mosamsax­
ureTa uflebebis dacvis, biujetis xarjvis problem­
atikisa da sxva umniSvnelovanesi sakiTxebis ganxilva.
sazogadoebasTan urTierToba
Tavdacvis saministros sazogadoebriv saqmeTa de­
partamenti da nato-s sainformacio centri aqti­
urad axorcieleben mTel rig RonisZiebebs, raTa sa­
zogadoebis sxvadasxva fenebisaTvis ufro gasagebi
gaxdes Tavdacvis sferoSi mimdinare reformebis
arsi, nato-s rogorc usafrTxoebis organizaciis
principebi da miznebi da saqarTvelos nato-Si inte­
graciis mniSvneloba.
sahaero Tavdacva
2006-2007 wlebSi mniSvnelovnad gaumjobesda saqarT­
velos sahaero Tavdacvis sistema da igi aRiWurva sa­
haero viTarebis kontrolis Tanamedrove saSualebe­
biT. 2007 wlis bolomde saqarTvelo CaerTveba nato-s
sahaero sivrcis monacemTa urTierTgacvlis siste­
maSi, ris Sedegadac nato-s wevri qveynebi pirdapir
(on-line) reJimSi miiReben saqarTvelos sahaero sivrce­
Si arsebul suraTs, rac mniSvnelovnad Seamcirebs
saqarTvelos sahaero sivrcis darRvevis safrTxes.
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 minda mivuloco sruliad saqarTvelos da SeiaraRebul
Zalebs damdegi axali weli. Cems qveyanas minda vusurvo
gamTlianeba da gabrwyineba, SeiaraRebul Zalebs _
winsvla da warmateba; SeiaraRebuli Zalebis mTeli
Semadgenlobis ojaxebs _ bedniereba da sikeTe.

zaza gogava
saqarTvelos SeiraRebuli Zalebis
gaerTianebuli Stabis ufrosi,
polkovniki

I want to extend New Year congratulations to Georgia and

to the Georgian Armed Forces. I want to wish my country
reunification and bright future and progress and success to
the Georgian Armed Forces. Let this year bring happiness and
prosperity to their families.

Col Zaza Gogava

Chief of Joint Staff of the Georgian
Armed Forces

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amerikis SeerTebuli Statebis saelCo saqarTveloSi
gilocavT Soba-axal wels. Cven gvwams, rom
saqarTveloSi mimdinare reformebis warmatebuli
ganxorcieleba mosaxleobas did sargeblobas moutans
da qveyanas evro-atlantikur ojaxSi integraciis
procesSi daexmareba. momdevno wlebSi gisurvebT
mSvidobasa da warmatebas.

misi aRmatebuleba jon tefti

misi aRmatebuleba amerikis elCi saqarTveloSi

The Embassy of the United States wishes you Merry Christmas

and a Happy New Year. We strongly believe that successful
implementation of the on-going reforms in Georgia will bring
benefit to its population and help the country join the
Euro-Atlantic family of the nations. We wish you peace and
success in the coming years.

H. e. John Tefft
Ambassador of the United States
of America to Georgia

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 saqarTvelos prezidentma 12
mimoxilva/Review

saukeTeso oficeri daajildova

25 oqtombers saqarTvelos prezidentma mixeil

saakaSvilma Tavdacvis erovnuli akademiis kurs­
damTavrebulebs saswavlo procesis warmatebiT
dasruleba miuloca. sazeimo RonisZiebas Tav­
dacvis ministri daviT kezeraSvili, gaerTianeb­
uli Stabis ufrosi, polkovniki zaza gogava, misi
moadgileebi, vice-polkovnikebi aleqsandre ose­
faiSvili da giga tatiSvili, saqarTveloSi akred­
itebuli diplomatiuri korpusis warmomadgenle­
bi daeswrnen.

saqarTvelos prezidentma kursdamTavrebulebs

sityviT mimarTa: `Cven gveqneba Tanamedrove, ara
mravalricxovani, magram kargad aRWurvili, Sei­
araRebuli Zalebi; iseTi, rogoric saqarTvelos
arasdros ar hyolia Tavisi istoriis ganmavlobaSi
da Cven viqnebiT yvela Cveni samokavSireo valdeb­
ulebebis, demokratiuli samyaros keTilmezoblo­
bis principebis erTgulebi. Cven aravis ar mivcemT
iseT valdebulebas, romelic xels Segvikravs Cven
da Cvens megobrebs saqarTvelos damoukideblobis,
suverenitetisa da momavlis dacvaSi~.
mixeil saakaSvilma da daviT kezeraSvilma gamosaS­
vebi gamocdebis reitingis mixedviT Tormet sauke­
Teso oficers jildoebi gadasces. saqarTvelos
prezidentma amiran sarTanias, romelic afxazeTi­
dan aris devnili, kursis warmatebiT dasruleba pi­
On October 25th, President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili,
congratulated the students of the National Defense Academy
upon graduating from the Officers’ Course.
Defence Minister David Kezerashvili, Chief of the Joint Staff
Col. Zaza Gogava, Deputy Chiefs of Staff LTC Alexandre Os-
epaishvili and LTC Giga Tatishvili, and foreign diplomats as-
signed to Georgia attended the solemn ceremony.
President Saakashvili delivered a speech addressing the gradu-
ates of Officers’ Course: “Our country will have modern, not
large, but well-equipped armed forces – something Georgia has
never had throughout its history and we will be committed to the
principles of democracy and good-neighborhood. We will not
undertake any obligations that will bind us and our friends in
defending Georgia’s independence and sovereignty”.

saqarTvelos prezidenti umcros oficerTa

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kursis gamoSvebis ceremoniaze
President of Georgia awarded
the best 12 officers
Today, at the ceremony, Mikheil Saakashvili and David Kezer-
ashvili awarded the twelve best officers according to their gradu-
ate exam grades. The President of Georgia complimented on the
successful graduation of the course and presented his watch to
Amiran Sartania, an IDP from Abkhazia.
radad miuloca da saCuqrad Tavisi saaTi gadasca.
qveiT umcross oficerTa `A~ kursis 123-ma msme­
nelma Svidi Tvis ganmavlobaSi momzadeba sam etapad
gaiara. maT sawyisi momzadeba, sakandidato da Ziri­
Tadi kursebi Seiswavles.

The Junior Officers’ Course “A” is a seven month training pro- imave dRes kursdamTavrebulebma sazeimo viTare­
gram that is conducted in three stages. 123 students attended baSi fici dades. maT pirveladi samxedro wodeba
the initial, candidate and basic courses. `leitenanti~ mieniWaT.

Officers’ Course graduates took an oath during the ceremony
and were commissioned as Lieutenants.
Defence Minister David Kezerashvili congratulated the young of-
ficers for successfully graduating from the courses: “It is a very
important day for the Georgian Armed Forces today. Officers’
Courses were passed by the students with a higher education de-
gree. They are the future of the Georgian Army. Young officers
will reinforce and strengthen the Armed Forces and likewise will
simplify the fulfillment of those challenges facing the Georgian
Armed Forces today.”
axalgazrda oficrebs kursis warmatebiT das­
ruleba miuloca saqarTvelos Tavdacvis ministrma
daviT kezeraSvilma: `dRevandeli dRe mniSvnelo­
vania saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli ZalebisTvis. Tav­
dacvis erovnul akademiaSi oficerTa momzadebis
kursi umaRlesi ganaTlebis mqone pirebma gaiares.
isini arian saqarTvelos armiis momavali. axalgaz­
rda oficrebi kidev ufro gaaZliereben da ganamt­
kiceben jars da Sesabamisad saqarTvelos, rac gac­
ilebiT gaaadvilebs im amocanebis Sesrulebas, rac
saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul Zalebs akisria~.

18 noembers saqarTvelos prezidenti mixeil

saakaSvili vazianis samxedro bazas ewvia. vazianis
bazas prezidentTan erTad saqarTvelos safex­
burTo nakrebis wevrebi da mTavari mwvrTneli
klaus topmioleric stumrobdnen. SeiaraRebuli
Zalebis mTavarsardalma samxedroebTan erTad
ivarjiSa, mogvianebiT ki fexburTelebsa da samx­
edroebs Soris amxanaguri matCic gaimarTa. matCs
mixeil saakaSvili da SeiaraRebuli Zalebis gaer­
Tianebuli Stabis ufrosi, polkovniki zaza gogava
adevnebdnen Tvals.

On November 18, President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili vis-

ited Vaziani Military Base. The Georgian national football team
players and their coach Klaus Topmoller were accompanying
the President in Vaziani. Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the
Georgian Armed Forces did some physical exercises together
with the military.

Afterwards, the Georgian footballers played a friendly football

match versus the Georgian military servicemen. The president
and the Chief of Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces Col.
Zaza Gogava watched the game together.

saqarTvelos prezidenti
13
vazianis samxedro bazaze
mTavari Tema/Main Topic

ruseTis bazebis gayvanis

procesi dasrulda
Tea WoniSvili
Thea Chonishvili

15 noembers baTumidan rusuli samxedro
teqnikiT datvirTuli bolo eSeloni somxe-
Tis mimarTulebiT, giumrisken gaemarTa. am
dRes dasrulda saqarTvelodan kidev erTi
rusuli samxedro bazis gayvanis procesi.
rusulma mxarem saqarTvelos Tavdacvis
saministros baTumSi dislocirebuli ruse-
Tis me-12 samxedro baza oficialurad gad-
asca, riTac ruseTis jarebis dajgufebis
me-12 samxedro bazam sabolood Sewyvita ar-
seboba saqarTveloSi.
samxedro obieqtis gadacemis dokumentze xelmow­
eris ceremonia baTumSi, amierkavkasiaSi ruseTis
federaciis jarebis dajgufebis StabSi gaimarTa.
miReba-Cabarebis aqts saqarTvelos Tavdacvis
On November 15th, the last trainload of the
Russian military equipment left Georgia for
Gyumri, Armenia. On that day, the withdraw-
al process of one more Russian military base,
from the territory of Georgia, came to an
end. The Russian’s officially transferred the
12th Russian Military Base located in Batumi,
Georgia. With this transfer, the 12th Russian
Military Base, which is part of a group of Rus-
sian Forces in Transcaucasia, ceased to exist
in Georgia.
An official document containing details of the transfer of the 12th
Russian Military Base to the Georgian Ministry of Defense was
signed at the Headquarters of the Group of Russian Forces in

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Withdrawal of Russian Bases
Completed
Transcaucasia (GRFT) -- which is located in Batumi. The offi-
cial document covering the handover and acceptance of the Rus-
sian military facility was signed by First Deputy Defence Minister
Batu Kutelia from the Georgian side and by the Commander of
the Group of Russian Forces in Transcaucasia, Maj.-Gen. Andrei
Popov, from the Russian side.
“Today, by signing this document the Russian military presence
on the territory of Georgia has finally ended. The Batumi Military
Base has been closed. The remaining equipment and servicemen
are in the process of departing Georgia. It is a historical day.” -
declared Deputy Defence Minister Batu Kutelia after signing the
document.
Russia undertook a commitment to withdraw its military equipment
and bases from the territory of Georgia in accordance with the Istan-
bul Joint Statement of November 17, 1999 adopted at OSCE Sum-
mit. Russia assumed an obligation to withdraw from the Republic of
Moldova, reduce her equipment levels in Georgia, agree with Geor-
gian authorities on the modalities and duration of the Russian forces
stationed on the territory of Georgia, and reduce their forces in the
flanks to the agreed levels of the Adapted CFE Treaty.
The pullout of Russian military forces from Vaziani Military Base
was a significant achievement. Withdrawal of Russian military
forces from Vaziani was a good beginning to ending the Russian
military presence in Georgia.
In accordance with the Georgian-Russian Joint Statement, both
sides should have completed negotiations regarding the agreement
on duration and modalities of the temporary functioning of Rus-
sian military bases in Batumi and Akhalkalaki, other Russian mili-
tary facilities on the territory of Georgia, and on their withdrawal
during the year 2000. Unfortunately, negotiations lasted for more
than five years.
Despite the fact that the military value of the Russian bases was
diminishing, Russia still regarded them as a source of leverage over
Tbilisi and tried to keep them on Georgian territory.
ministris pirvelma moadgilem baTu quTeliam da
amierkavkasiaSi ruseTis federaciis jarebis da­
jgufebis sardalma, general-maiorma andrei pop­
ovma moaweres xeli.
`dRes istoriuli dRea. am xelSekrulebis xel­
moweriT damTavrda kidev erTi rusuli samxedro
bazis yofna saqarTvelos teritoriaze. baTumis
baza ukve daixura. saqarTvelodan gadis darCeni­
li samxedro teqnika da samxedro mosamsaxureebi~-
ganacxada baTu quTeliam dokumentis xelmoweris
Semdeg.
ruseTma saqarTvelos teritoriidan samxedro
teqnikisa da bazebis gayvanis valdebuleba 1999
wlis 17 noembers euTo-s stambolis samitze aiRo.
ruseTma Tanxmoba ganacxada gaeyvana samxedro Za­
lebi moldaveTidan, Seemcirebina SeiaraRebisa da
samxedro personalis raodenoba saqarTveloSi da
saqarTvelos mTavrobasTan SeeTanxmebina saqarT­
velos teritoriaze arsebuli ruseTis bazebis
gayvanis vadebi da detalebi.
saqarTvelodan rusuli Zalebis gayvana vazianis
samxedro bazidan daiwyo, rac mniSvnelovan miRw­
evas warmoadgenda. vazianis bazis gasvla saqarT­
veloSi rusuli Zalebis arsebobis dasasrulis
kargi dasawyisi gaxda.
qarTul-rusuli SeTanxmebis mixedviT, molapar­
akebebi axalqalaqis, baTumis bazebisa da saqarT­
velos teritoriaze ganlagebuli ruseTis fed­
eraciis sxva samxedro obieqtebis droebiTi
funqcionirebis vadebis, wesisa da maTi gayvanis
Sesaxeb 2000 wels unda dasrulebuliyo, Tumca,
molaparakebebi 5 welze met xans gaWianurda.
miuxedavad imisa, rom ruseTis bazebis samxedro
Rirebuleba nel-nela mcirdeboda, ruseTi mainc
cdilobda samxedro bazebi saqarTvelos terito­
riaze SeenarCunebina, rasac is Tbilisis winaaRm­
deg berketad gamoiyenebda.
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2005 wlis 30 maiss saqarTvelos da ruseTis fed­
eraciis sagareo saqmeTa ministrebis erToblivi
gancxadebis Tanaxmad, mxareebma kvlav ganixiles
ruseTis samxedro bazebis gasvlis sakiTxebi. doku­
mentis xelmoweris Semdeg baTumis da axalqalaqis
ruseTis samxedro bazebma saqmianoba Sewyvites da
funqcionirebas gayvanis reJimSi ganagrZobdnen.
2006 wlis 31 marts, soWSi, Tbilissa da moskovs
Soris SeTanxmeba gaformda, romlis mixedviTac
saqarTvelos teritoriaze ganlagebuli da gay­
vanis reJimSi myofi amierkavkasiaSi ruseTis samx­
edro dajgufebis, ruseTis samxedro bazebisa da
sxva samxedro obieqtebis droebiTi funqcionire­
bis vadebi da wesebi dadginda.
saqarTvelos teritoriaze arsebuli ruseTis ba­
zebi samxedro, materialuri da teqnikuri aRWur­
vilobisagan da samxedro personalisagan etapo­
brivad Tavisufldeboda.
bazebis gayvanis winaswar SemuSavebuli gegmis
mixedviT ruseTis mxarem saqarTvelos sxvadasxva
regionebSi ganlagebuli amierkavkasiaSi ruse­
Tis federaciis jarebis dajgufebis kuTvnili 49
obieqti gadmosca.
2005 wlidan saqarTvelos teritoria rusuli
samxedro teqnikiT datvirTulma 43-ma eSelonma
da 38-ma kolonam datova. axalqalaqis da baTumis
bazebidan ruseTisa da somxeTis mimarTulebiT
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On May 30, 2005, in accordance with the Joint Statements by
the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation and
Georgia, the withdrawal process of Russian military bases was dis-
cussed. From the moment the Statement was signed, the Russian
military bases in Batumi and Akhalkalaki discontinued their nor-
mal and began to function in the withdrawal mode.
“Agreement between the Russian Federation and Georgia on
Terms and Rules of Temporary Functioning and Withdrawal of
the Russian Military Bases and Other Military Facilities of the
Group of Russian Military Forces in South Caucasus Deployed
on the Territory of Georgia” was signed on March 31st, 2006 in
Sochi.
During this period, the Russian military bases stationed on the
territory of Georgia began vacating material, technical equipment,
and military personnel.
According to the agreed withdrawal schedule between the parties,
the Russian side transferred 49 military facilities, belonging to the
Group of Russian Military Forces in Transcaucasia, to the Geor-
gian Ministry of Defence.
Since 2005, 43 trains and 38 convoys carried 1500 units of equip-
ment and over 5000 tons of property from the bases of Batumi and
Akhalkalaki to Russia.
In December 2006, military facilities occupied by the Group of
Russian Forces in Transcaucasia (GRFT) were transferred to
 W ithdrawal of the Russian military bases from the
territory of Georgia after 200-year presence is
undoubtedly an important historical fact.
Georgia. In June of 2007, withdrawal of the 62nd Akhalkalki
Military Base was complete and the 12th Batumi Military Base
was closed in November of the same year.
According to the Georgian-Russian Agreement, the withdrawal
process of the Russian Bases was to be completed by the end of
2008. But, a decision made by the Russian side permitted the last
trainload of the Russian military equipment to leave the territory
of Georgia ahead of schedule in November of 2007.
As Commander of the North Caucasian military district, Gen. Al-
exander Baranov declared, after handover of the Batumi Military
Base, that not a single soldier would remain on the territory of
Georgia as of December 1st. (Implies military personnel of the
Group of Russian Forces in Transcaucasia)
Despite the fact that Russia closed its bases in Akhalkalki and Ba-
tumi, the Russian military contingent still remains on the territory
of Georgia. Russian “Blue Helmets” are fulfilling the so called
peacekeeping mission in Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions.
Officials in Tbilisi assume that Russian peacekeepers act as protec-
tors of the separatist regimes and therefore are not fulfilling their
mandated commitments. The Georgian side continually insists
that the existing peacekeeping force be replaced. The Georgian
side’s approach, concerning the need to revise the peacekeeping
format, is shared by the International Community.
One more issue, that raises doubts regarding the completion of the
Russian military presence on the territory of Georgia, is Gudauta
Military Base.
According to the Georgian side, Istanbul commitments concern-
ing the withdrawal of Russian military bases can not be regarded
as fully implemented unless the issue of Gudauta military base is
resolved.
Russia claims that Gudauta Base has already been closed. The
Russian withdrawal from Gudauta base has not been verified and
its infrastructure has not been legally transferred to the Georgian
side.
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a special state-
ment regarding the completion of withdrawal process. Accord-
ing to this statement, Russia fulfilled its commitments under the
agreement a year ahead of schedule. “So, Russia has fulfilled its
1500 erTeuli teqnika da 5000 tona materialuri
saSualebebi gavida.
2006 wlis dekemberSi qarTul mxares amierkavka­
siaSi ruseTis samxedro dajgufebis Stabbina gad­
moeca. 2007 wlis ivnisSi dasrulda axalqalaqis
62-e samxedro bazis gayvana, xolo amave wlis noem­
berSi daixura baTumis me-12 samxedro baza.
SeTanxmebuli vadebis mixedviT axalqalaqis baza
2007 wlis 1 oqtombramde unda gasuliyo, baTumis
bazis gayvana ki 2008 wlis bolomde unda dasrule­
buliyo. Tumca, rusulma mxarem gadawyvetileba
miiRo bazebi vadaze adre daexura.
rogorc CrdiloeT kavkasiaSi rusuli samxedro Za­
lebis sardalma, generalma aleqsandre baranovma
baTumis bazis gadmocemis Semdeg ganacxada, 1 de­
kembrisaTvis saqarTveloSi erTi rusi jariskac­
ic ki ar darCeboda (igulisxmeba amierkavkasiaSi
ruseTis jarebis dajgufebaSi Semavali piradi Se­
madgenloba).
axalqalaqsa da baTumSi rusuli samxedro bazebis
daxurvis miuxedavad, saqarTvelos teritoriaze,
kerZod, afxazeTsa da samxreT oseTSi, e.w. samSvi­
dobo Zalebis formatSi kvlav rCeba rusuli samx­
edro Zala.
oficialuri Tbilisi miiCnevs, rom rusi samSvi­
doboebi praqtikulad separatistuli reJimebis
SenarCunebas uzrunvelyofen da isini Sesabamisi
mandatiT dakisrebul movaleobebs ar asruleben.
qarTuli mxaris poziciiT saWiroa arsebuli samS­
vidobo formatebis Secvla. Sexedulebas samSvi­
dobo procesis gadaxedvis saWiroebasTan dakav­
SirebiT saerTaSoriso Tanamegobrobac iziarebs.
kidev erTi sakiTxi, romelic aseve eWv qveS ayenebs
rusi samxedroebis arsebobis dasasruls saqarT­
velos teritoriaze, gudauTis samxedro bazaa.
qarTuli mxare miiCnevs, rom stambolis valdeb­
ulebebi ruseTis bazebis saqarTvelodan gayva­
nasTan dakavSirebiT Sesrulebulad ar CaiTvleba
sanam gudauTis bazis sakiTxi ar mogvardeba.
rusuli mxaris mtkicebiT, daxurulia gudauTis
samxedro bazac, Tumca dRemde ar momxdara
gudauTis bazis gayvanis verificireba da misi in­
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frastruqturis iuridiuli gadmocema qarTuli
mxarisTvis.

bazebis gayvanasTan dakavSirebiT ruseTis sa­

gareo saqmeTa saministrom sagangebo gancxadebac
gaavrcela. sergei lavrovis uwyebis gancxadebiT,
ruseTma `stambolis xelSekrulebiT~ aRebuli
valdebuleba dadgenil vadaze TiTqmis erTi wliT
adre Seasrula. `ase rom ruseTma Tavisi valdeb­
ulebebi Seasrula. 2000 wlis 31 dekembrisaTvis
saqarTvelos teritoriaze arsebuli ruseTis fed­
eraciis kuTvnili SeiaraReba da samxedro teqnika,
SeTanxmebis Sesabamisad ukve Semcirebuli iyo. 2001
wlis ivnisisaTvis aseve gauqmebuli iyo vaziansa da
gudauTaSi arsebuli ruseTis samxedro bazebi~ –
iuwyeba ruseTis sagareo saqmeTa saministro.
commitments. By December 31st, 2000 the number of armament
ruseTis sagareo saqmeTa saministros gancxadebas and military equipment of the Russian Federation on the territory
pasuxi qarTulma uwyebamac gasca. qarTuli mxare of Georgia has been reduced according to the Joint Statement.
ar iziarebs ruseTis pozicias da fiqrobs, rom
Vaziani and Gudauta Bases were closed by June 2001.”
ruseTis federaciam erToblivi gancxadebiT nak­
isri valdebulebebi arasrulad Seasrula.
The statement was followed by a reply from the Georgian Ministry
`gudauTis bazis 2001 w. ivlisSi daxurvasTan of Foreign Affairs. The Georgian side does not share the Russian
dakavSirebiT araerTgzis gakeTebuli gancxadebis position and considers the commitments, undertaken by the Rus-
miuxedavad, igi ar aris daxuruli, vinaidan baza sian Federation, to be incomplete.

o ras welze meti xangrZlivobis samxedro yofnis

Semdeg saqarTvelodan ruseTis bazebis gayvana udaod
umniSvnelovanes da istoriuli movlenas warmoadgens.

funqcionirebs da misi infrastruqtura ruseTis
SeiaraRebuli Zalebis interesebisTvis gamoiyen­
eba. TviT ruseTis mxaris mier gadmocemuli in­
formaciis Tanaxmad, bazis teritoriaze imyofeba
ruseTis federaciis kuTvnili sabrZolo vertm­
frenebi, ramdenime aTeuli satransporto saSu­
aleba, ramdenime aseuli SeiaraRebuli samxedro
mosamsaxure...~
“Despite numerous statements regarding the closure of Gudauta
RMB in July 2001, it cannot be considered closed as the base is
continuing to function and its infrastructure is still being used in
the interests of the Russian armed forces. In accordance with the
information provided by the Russian side, there still remains com-
bat helicopters, several tens of vehicles, and several hundreds of
military personnel, on the territory of the base...”

saqarTvelodan ruseTis samxedro bazebis gayvanis
Sesaxeb stambolis valdebulebebis Seusrule­
bloba aseve erT-erTi mizezTagania, ris gamoc
nato-s zogierTma qveyanam uari ganacxada evropaSi
Cveulebrivi SeiaraRebuli Zalebis adaptirebuli
xelSekrulebis ratificirebaze.
miuxedavad im faqtisa, rom kvlav gaurkveveli
rCeba gudauTis bazisa da afxazeTisa da samxreT
oseTis teritoriaze arsebuli samSvidoboebis
sakiTxebi, 200 welze meti xangrZlivobis samxedro
yofnis Semdeg saqarTvelodan ruseTis bazebis
gayvana udaod umniSvnelovanes da istoriul mov­
lenas warmoadgens.
Incomplete fulfillment of Istanbul commitments, regarding the
withdrawal of the Russian military bases from Georgia, was one
of the reasons some NATO countries refused to ratify the adapted
version of the CFE Treaty.
Despite the unresolved issues concerning the Gudauta military
base and existence of the peacekeeping forces on the territories of
Abkhazia and South Ossetia, withdrawal of the Russian military
bases from the territory of Georgia, after a 200-year presence, is
undoubtedly an important historical fact.

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I would like to congratulate the open-hearted and hospitable Georgian
people and its Armed Forces for the coming New Year and wish you
peace, stability, and success in the way of your reformation process.
In Germany’s and Georgia’s military-political and military relations, I
would like to emphasize the successful cooperation in the develop-
ment of Georgia’s Sergeant Training School. It can be said that Geor-
gia’s Sergeant Training School is a somehow a lighthouse in mutual
military cooperation. In 2007, the partnership existing between the
above-mentioned school and the Infantry Training School of Ger-
many’s Armed Forces has strongly deepened.
Relations in military education have also increased. 1900 members
of Georgia’s Armed Forces have received an education in Germany.
During 2007, in the framework of mutual programs, 29 events were
successfully implemented, which focused on Logistics, Military Med-
ical Service and Education.
Under proposal of Georgia’s side in 2007, Kosovo’s Peacekeeping
contingent was joined by one more highly professionally trained
Georgian Infantry Company. It must be mentioned, that Georgia will
receive 37 tons of military-medical equipment in December. During
2008, there is a plan to transfer 25 military ambulance vehicles and
additional equipment to the Sergeant School.
Because Germany has the role of coordinator of UN Secretary Gen-
eral’s Friends Group, Germany is highly interested in a peaceful
solution to the Abkhazian conflict by political means. Since 1994,
Germany has taken part in the UNOMIG in Abkhazia. Nowadays, our
country is represented by 3 military observers, 3 medics, 6 medical
sergeants and 4 policemen.
The previous year made it clear that military-political and military
relations between Georgia and Germany are based on stabile and
reliable relations and in 2008 there is a plan to grow these relations..
Staff Sergeant,Assistant Attaché Matiseck, Vice-colonel Reimann
and I would like to thank you for your efficiency and pleasure of co-
operation and for your trust in us.
I wish health, happiness and success to all the members of Georgia’s
armed forces.
LTC Christian Farkhondeh
Military Attaché of the Federal
Republic of Germany in Georgia
„stumarTmoyvare, gulRia qarTvel xalxs da mis
SeiaraRebul Zalebs minda mivuloco damdegi axali
weli. vusurvo mSvidoba, stabiluroba da warmatebebi
reformebis ganxorcielebis procesSi.“
saqarTvelosa da germanias Soris samxedro-
politikuri da samxedro urTierTobebis farglebSi
minda gamovyo warmatebuli TanamSromloba
saqarTvelos serJantTa momzadebis skolis
ganviTarebis sakiTxSi. SeiZleba iTqvas, rom
saqarTvelos serJantTa momzadebis skola ormxrivi
samxedro TanamSromlobis erTgvari Suquraa. aseve
aRniSnul skolasa da bundesveris qveiTTa momzadebis
skolas Soris arsebuli partnioroba 2007 wels kidev
ufro gaRrmavda.
warmatebiT gafarTovda TanamSromloba saxedro
ganaTlebis dargSi. dRemde saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli
Zalebis 1900 warmomadgenelma miiRo ganaTleba
germaniaSi. 2007 wels, ormxrivi programis
farglebSi, warmatebiT ganxorcielda 29 RonisZieba,
romelTa mTavari Temebi gaxldaT logistika,
samxedro samedicino samsaxuri da ganaTleba.
qarTuli mxaris SemoTavazebis safuZvelze 2007
wels kosovos samSvidobo kontingents profesiul
doneze gawvrTnili kidev erTi qarTuli qveiTTa
aseuli SeuerTda. gansakuTrebiT aRsaniSnavia, rom
dekemberSi saqarTveloSi Camova 37 tona samxedro
samedicino aRWurviloba, 2008 wels ki dagegmilia
25 saswrafo daxmarebis samxedro manqanisa da
serJantTa skolisaTvis damatebiTi aRWurvilobis
Camotana.
gaeros generaluri mdivnis megobarTa jgufis
koordinatoris rolSi germania gansakuTrebiT aris
dainteresebuli afxazeTis konfliqtis mSvidobiani,
politikuri gziT mogvarebaSi. 1994 wlidan germania
monawileobs UNOMIG-is misiaSi afxazeTSi. amJamad
igi warmodgenilia 3 samxedro damkvirvebliT, 3
samxedro eqimiT, 6 samedicino serJantiT da 4
policieliT.
2007 welma dagvanaxa, rom saqarTvelosa da
germanias Soris samxedro-politikuri da samxedro
TanamSromloba stabilur da sando urTierTobebzea
damyarebuli da igi 2008 wels kidev ufro
gaRrmavdeba.
Stabis serJant matiseks, vice-polkovnik raimans da
piradad me gvsurs guliTadi madloba gadagixadoT
kargi da sasiamovno TanamSromlobisaTvis da im
ndobisaTvis, romelic Tqven gamogvicxadeT.
saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis yvela wevrs mTeli
guliT vusurvebT janmrTelobas, bednierebas da
warmatebebs.
kristian farkonde
germaniis federaciuli respublikis
samxedro ataSe saqarTveloSi
vice-polkovniki
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 vladimer sokori:
saqarTvelo moqmedebs,
stumari/Guest

rogorc nato-s de faqto

wevri qveyana
Tea kerZevaZe
Tea Kerdzevadze

vladimer sokori vaSingtonSi, “jeimsTaun Vladimir Socor is a Senior Fellow of the

faundeiSenis” gamomcemlobaSi eqspertad
1995 wlidan muSaobs. igi saerTaSorisod aRi-
arebuli eqspertia da yofili sabWoTa kav-
Siris qveynebis Sesaxeb yoveldRiur anali-
tikur statiebs aqveynebs. statiebSi igi
exeba evropaSi rusul da dasavlur politi-
kas, yuradRebas amaxvilebs regionaluri usa-
frTxoebis sakiTxebze, konfliqtebze, ener-
go-politikasa da nato_sTan dakavSirebul
sakiTxebze.
Jamestown Foundation in Washington since
1995. He writes a daily analytical article.
He is an internationally recognized expert
on the former Soviet-ruled countries. In his
articles Socor covers Russian and Western
policies in Eurasia, focusing on regional se-
curity issues, secessionist conflicts, energy
policies, and NATO-related developments.

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Vladimir Socor:
Georgia is already Behaving
like a De Facto Member
of NATO
Georgia is aspiring to integrate in the Euro-Atlantic structures.
One of the major commitments of Georgia in NATO integration
process is defence sector reform. How successfully is the De-
fence Ministry of Georgia implementing this obligation? What
do you think, what chances does Georgia have at NATO Bucha-
rest Summit in spring 2008?
During his visit to Georgia in October, Secretary General of
NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that Georgia is implement-
ing these reforms successfully. These reforms aren’t finished
yet. The defence sector reforms are a continuing process. Geor-
gia is continuing to make progress on it. The NATO allies don’t
demand instant or immediate or total fulfillment of those re-
forms. They are looking to see continuing and significant prog-
ress in the direction and they are seen on that. Only those who
don’t want to see don’t see it. But the progress is there. Clearly,
Georgia has earns on the grounds of defence sector reform.
Clearly, Georgia has earns that title to be given the Member-
ship Action Plan at the upcoming NATO Summit in Bucharest.
Unfortunately, criteria for signing the Membership Action Plan
by NATO’s aspiring countries are not only military criteria or
defence sector criteria or performance criteria, are also politi-
cal criteria. It’s almost scientific process of measuring it by
what American military calls it “Matrix”. This is not a case
of political criteria. They are not measurable in scientific way.
And therefore interpretation of political criteria can be subjec-
tive rather than objective. I have no doubt in fact that I see now
that some European member countries of NATO are looking
for excuses not to sign Membership Action Plan for Georgia
by citing political criteria, including those having to do with
internal democracy or with Georgia-Russia relations. I don’t
think that Georgia has lost the battle for Membership Action
Plan; this is a battle that Georgia can still win. It is December
now and the NATO Summit is in Bucharest in April; that de-
mocracy in Georgia is strong, has been established irreversibly
and that Georgia is doing everything it can within its limited
means to have normal relations with Russia. There are still four
saqa­rTvelo miiswrafvis evro-atlantikur stru­
qturebSi integraciisaken. nato-Si integraciis
procesSi, Cveni qveynis erT-erTi mniSvnelovani
valdebuleba Tavdacvis sferos reformirebaa.
Tqveni azriT, ramdenad warmatebulad asrulebs
saqarTvelo masze dakisrebul valdebulebebs da
ra Sansebi aqvs gvaqvs nato-s buqarestis samitze
2008 wlis gazafxulze miviRoT kandidati qveynis
statusi?
oqtomberSi, saqarTveloSi vizitis dros, nato-s
generalurma mdivanma iap de hop sxeferma ganacxa­
da, rom saqarTvelo warmatebiT axorcielebs re­
formebs. Tumca reformebis ganxorcieleba jer
ar dasrulebula. Tavdacvis sferos reformireba
uwyveti procesia. saqarTvelo kvlav warmatebiT
agrZelebs am mimarTulebiT muSaobas. nato-s wevri
qveynebis moTxovna ar aris am reformebis erTianad
da srulad Sesruleba. maTTvis mTavaria dainaxon
uwyveti da mniSvnelovani progresi. am progress
ver xedaven mxolod isini, visac ar aqvs danaxvis
survili. progresi ki namdvilad aris. saqarTvelom
udaod mniSvnelovani progresi ganicada Tavdacvis
sferos reformirebaSi. aSkaraa, rom saqarTvelo mi­
iswrafvis gawevrianebis samoqmedo gegmis misaRebad
nato-s samitze buqarestSi. samwuxarod, aliansSi
gawevrianebis msurveli qveynebisaTvis gawevriane­
bis samoqmedo gegmis misaRebad sakmarisi araa mx­
olod samxedro an Tavdacvis seqtoris kriteriumi
an Sesrulebis kriteriumi; mniSvnelovania politi­
kuri kriteriumic. samxedro kriteriumebis gazom­
va samecniero procesia, amerikeli samxedroebis
enaze mas `matrica~-s uwodeben, rasac ver vityviT
politikur kriteriumze. am SemTxvevaSi mecnierul
doneze Sefaseba ver moxdeba. politikuri kriteri­
umiT Sefaseba ufro subieqturia, vidre obieqturi.
eWvic ar mepareba, rom nato-s wevri zogierTi evro­
puli qveyana saqarTvelosTan mimarTebaSi garkveul
sababs eZebs, rom mxari ar dauWiros saqarTvelos
gawevrianebis samoqmedo gegmis miRebas da amis miz­
ezad politikur kriteriums asaxelebs, iqneba es
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Sida demokratiis xarisxi Tu saqarTvelo-ruseTis
urTierTobebi. ar vfiqrob, rom saqarTvelom gaw­
evrianebis samoqmedo gegmis etapze gadasasvleli
brZola waago. saqarTvelos am brZolaSi gamarjveb­
is Sansi jer kidev aqvs. axla dekemberia, xolo nato-
s samiti buqarestSi aprilSi tardeba. saqarTvelo­
Si Zlieri demokratiaa da es Seuqcevadi procesia.
saqarTvelo yvelafers akeTebs ruseTTan urTier­
Tobis normalizaciis mizniT. buqarestis samitamde
jer kidev oTxi Tvea. oTxi Tve sakmaod didi droa.
vfiqrob, saqarTvelos Seswevs unari es dro Sida
demokratiisa da ruseTTan urTierTobis daregu­
lirebisTvis gamoiyenos. saqarTvelom es sakiTxebi
Zalian male unda moagvaros da nato-s wevr qveynebs
politikuri mesiji gaugzavnos.
saqarTvelos mosaxleoba saprezidento ar-
Cevnebis paralelurad plebiscitis saSualebiT
gamoxatavs sakuTar pozicias surs Tu ara nato-
Si gawevrianeba. ra gavlenas moaxdens arCevnebis
Sedegebi nato-s samitze saqarTvelosTan mimarTe-
baSi miRebul gadawyvetilebaze?
am Sedegs gavlena ori mimarTulebiT eqneba. erTi
maTgani gamiznulia aliansis wevrebis politikuri
zemoqmedebaze, raTa isini darwmundnen, rom saqarT­
velos mosaxleobas namdvilad surs maTi qveyana
nato-Si gawevriandes. nato-s wevri qveynebisTvis
mniSvnelovania gaacnobieron, rom aliansSi gawevr­
ianebasTan dakavSirebiT saqarTveloSi erovnuli
konsensusi arsebobs. miuxedavad qveyanaSi arse­
buli Sida politikuri uTanxmoebisa, saqarTvelos
mosaxleobisa da qarTveli amomrCevlebis pozicia
erTiania. rogorc CemTvis cnobilia, saqarTvelos
aliansSi gawevrianebis mxardaWeris umaRlesi re­
itingi aqvs, rac nato-Si gawevrianebis msurvel ar­
cerT qveyanas ar hqonia. gawevrianebis periodSi
Cems mSobliur qveyanas, rumineTs, 75% uWerda mx­
ars. Tu sworad maxsovs, ramdenime Tvis Tu wlis win
saqarTvelos nato-Si gawevrianebas mosaxleobis
80% an ufro metic uWerda mxars. es mxardaWeris
maRali maCvenebelia. aseTi did maCvenebeli balti­
ispireTis qveynebsac ki ar hqondaT. baltiispire­
Tis qveynebs nato-Si gawevrianebis Zlieri mxardaW­
era hqondaT, magram reitingi 70% - 80%-s arasdros
aRemateboda. es sakmaod pozitiuri maCvenebelia,
rac politikurad aliansisTvis Zalian kargia. es mx­
ardaWera mosaxleobis mier samxedro da Tavdacvis
seqtoris reformebisTvis mxardaWeras niSnavs. es
reformebi ki sakmaod ZviradRirebuli investiciaa,
romlis sargebelsac mogvianebiT miiReben. mogvi­
anebiT imas niSnavs, rom rodesac saqarTvelo alian­
sis Tavdacvis nawili gaxdeba, qveyanas Tavdacvis
sferoSi naklebi danaxarjebi eqneba. magram amJamad,
Tavdacvis sferos reforma ZviradRirebulia da Tu
qarTvel amomrCevelTa aseTi maRali maCvenebeli
saqarTvelos nato-Si gawevrianebas uWers mxars, es
imas niSnavs, rom isini Tavdacvis seqtorSi mimdin­
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months until the Bucharest Summit. Four months is a pretty
long time. I think Georgia can make a convincing political case
on internal democracy and on political relations with Russia
until April. Georgia must get its up together very soon, very
quickly; must get its up together on its message, its political
message to NATO allies.
Georgian population will vote whether it wants Georgia to be-
come a member of the Alliance in the plebiscite along with the
Presidential elections. What impact will the results of the plebi-
scite as well as the overall results of elections have on decisions
made regarding Georgia at NATO Summit?
There are two impacts. One is on the allies themselves of po-
litical impact to convince the allies that the people of Georgia
really want their country to be in NATO. It is very important
for the NATO allies to realize that there is a national con-
sensus in Georgia about this; whatever the internal political
differences that Georgian population and Georgian citizenry
is united on this goal. As far as I know Georgia has the high-
est rate of support for NATO membership of all the countries
that ever became aspirants for NATO. My own native country
– Romania had something like 75% support for NATO mem-
bership when Romania was an aspirant country. If I remem-
ber correctly support in Georgia was 80% or even more than
80% some months ago or a year ago. That is a huge rate of
support. Even in the Baltic States there was no such support
for NATO membership. There was a range of strong support
but never more than 70 or 80 percent of support. This is un-
heard of. This is a very positive signal. It’s good politically for
the Alliance. More importantly, just as importantly such sup-
port means that the population, that the voters of Georgia are
prepared to support spending for military and defence sector
reform. That reform is expensive. Of course, it will pay later
on. It is an expensive investment which will be paid later on
because later on Georgia’s defence preparedness will be a part
of the overall Alliance defence which means less spending for
Georgia. But right now the defence sector reform is expensive
and if such a high proportion of the citizenry support NATO
membership, it means that they agree with the necessary de-
fence sector reform spending, even on the expense of some so-
cial programs in order to achieve these reforms as quickly as
possible and earn “an entrance ticket” to the Alliance. That’s
why the proportion of support for NATO membership is so
important to make an impression on the Alliance politically
and an indication that the voters are prepared to support a
high level of spending from the state budget for the defence
sector reform.
Georgian peacekeepers actively participate in International
Peacekeeping Operations. How do you evaluate Georgia’s role
in providing the global security?
 s aqarTvelos aliansSi gawevrianebis mxardaWeris
umaRlesi reitingi aqvs, rac nato-Si gawevrianebis
msurvel arcerT qveyanas ar hqonia.
It is a growing role. It is growing very rapidly. It is positive
demonstration of the fact that Georgia is not only a consumer
of security but also a producer of security. It is a brand new
situation. As recently, in 2003 and in 2004 Georgia was only a
consumer of security, Georgia didn’t have even an army, didn’t
have military establishment of any kind. It didn’t have a func-
tional Defence Ministry. Defence Ministry was more on papers
than in reality. It almost didn’t have a military budget. The ter-
ritory of Georgia was a military vacuum wide opened towards
Russia and it was subjective to mention that in 1990s and ever
since then Georgia was only a consumer of security and more-
over despite being a consumer of security was highly insecure
itself. This situation has changed in a radical way. I have never
seen such a rapid positive change in any other country be-
tween 2003-2004 and now. Georgia is a producer of security
now. As you mentioned, Georgian peacekeepers are operating
along side peacekeepers from NATO countries in the Balkans,
in the American led coalitions in Iraq and now very soon a
large numbers, especially large numbers in Afghanistan. Geor-
gian soldiers will be operating along side soldiers from more
than thirteen NATO ally and partner countries. In this way
Georgians demonstrate that the country is prepared to act
together with NATO. They also demonstrate that they have
the capability to do so - the necessary training and interop-
erability. On military performance alone Georgia is already
behaving like a de facto member of NATO. Georgia has even
initiated and volunteered to increase a number of its soldiers
in NATO operations, at a time when many other NATO coun-
tries don’t wish to do so, but they are reducing their participa-
tion. So Georgia is behaving de facto like a NATO ally, even
though it has not yet joined the Alliance. To mean the most
important contribution to NATO is troops in the field and
this is certainly also appreciated by the NATO commanders.
If I were Georgian, I would underscore very much this part of
Georgia’s commitments to the Alliance, the fact that Georgia
is contributing in the most convincing way with troops in the
filed – that is a final analyses more convincing than anything
else. It is more convincing than political criteria. It is saying
as a “proof of the pudding” is soldiers in the field and this
is what Georgia does. Georgia has achieved this on its own.
American assistance has been crucial in terms of training, in
terms of transfer military experience to the defence depart-
ment. Also the experience of other allies of the Baltic States
has been important. Turkey has helped very much. So the al-
lies are helping. Georgia is demonstrating that it can absorb
the help. It can do so in a productive way.
are reformebisTvis gaweul biujets eTanxmebian,
Tundac es socialuri programebis xarjze moxdes,
raTa saqarTvelom rac SeiZleba swrafad ganaxor­
cielos reformebi da miiRos aliansSi `gawevriane­
bis bileTi~. swored amitom aris nato-Si gawevriane­
bis mxardaWeris maRali maCvenebeli mniSvnelovani,
rom aliansze politikuri zewola moaxdinos da
aseve imis maCvenebeli, rom amomrCevlebi mzad arian
mxari dauWiron saxelmwifo biujetidan xarjebis
maRal dones Tavdacvis sferoSi reformebis gasa­
tareblad.
qarTveli samSvidoboebi aqtiurad monawileoben
saerTaSoriso samSvidobo operaciebSi. rogor
SeafasebT saqarTvelos rols globaluri usa-
frTxoebis uzrunvelyofis sferoSi?
es roli ganuwyvetliv izrdeba. dadebiTi maCvenebe­
lia is faqti, rom saqarTvelo ara mxolod usafrTx­
oebis momxmarebelia, aramed usafrTxoebis uzrun­
velyofaSi Tavis wvlili Seaqvs. es sruliad axali
mdgomareobaa. 2003 da 2004 wlebSi saqarTvelo usa­
frTxoebis mxolod momxmarebeli iyo. saqarTvelos
ar hyavda jari; ar gaaCnda aranairi samxedro insti­
tuti, saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministro mxolod
qaRaldze arsebobda, vidre realurad; qveyanas samx­
edro biujetic ki ar gaaCnda. saqarTvelos terito­
ria ruseTisken farTod gaxnil samxedro vakuums
warmoadgenda. minda gamovxato Cemi subieqturi
mosazreba da aRvniSno, rom 1990-ian wlebSi da Sem­
dgom periodSic saqarTvelo iyo usafrTxoebis mx­
olod momxmarebeli da ufro metic, TviTon qveyana
saSinlad daucveli iyo. dResdReobiT mdgomareoba
radikalurad Secvlilia. arasdros minaxavs aseTi
swrafi pozitiuri cvlileba nebismier sxva qveyana­
Si rogorc 2003-2004 wlebSi iyo da axla aris Tqven­
Tan. amJamad saqarTvelos usafrTxoebis uzrun­
velyofaSi mniSvnelovani wvlili Seaqvs. rogorc
Tqven aRniSneT, qarTveli samSvidoboebi nato-s
wevri qveynebis samSvidoboebTan erTad, samSvido­
bo misiebs axorcieleben balkaneTSi, amerikis mier
warmarTul samSvidobo operaciaSi eraySi da Zalian
male qarTveli samSvidoboebis gansakuTrebiT
didi raodenoba samSvidobo misias avRaneTSic Sea­
srulebs. qarTveli samSvidoboebi nato-s 13-ze met
wevr da partnior qveyanasTan erTad samSvidobo op­
eraciebSi miiReben monawileobas. swored am gziT
gviCvenebs saqarTvelo, rom mzad aris imoqmedos
nato-sTan erTad; rom qveyanas Seswevs unari ganax­
orcielos saTanado wvrTnebi da miaRwios urTierT­
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Tavsebadobas. samxedro TvalsazrisiT, saqarTvelo
moqmedebs, rogorc nato-s de faqto wevri qveyana.
saqarTvelos sakuTari nebiT surs nato-s egidiT
warmarTul samSvidobo operaciebSi samxedroebis
raodenoba gazardos, im dros rodesac nato-s sxva
wevri qveynebi kontingents amcireben. miuxedavad
imisa, rom jer aliansis sruluflebiani wevri ar
aris, saqarTvelo nato-s de faqto wevris msgavsad
moqmedebs. yvelaze mniSvnelovani wvlili nato-Si
am operaciebSi monawileobaa da amas nato-s sard­
loba didad afasebs. me rom qarTveli viyo, gansa­
kuTrebuli mniSvnelobiT aRvniSnavdi saqarTvelos
mier Sesrulebul valdebulebebs. is faqti, rom
saqarTvelos wvlili Seaqvs sakuTari monawileobiT
ufro mniSvnelovania, vidre politikuri kriteriu­
mi. saqarTvelo amas sakuTari qmedebiT adasturebs.
saqarTvelom am yvelafers damoukideblad miaRwia.
mniSvnelovania amerikis mxaris mier gaweuli dax­
mareba wvrTnebisa Tu Tavdacvis sferoSi samxedro
gamocdilebis gaziarebis kuTxiT. aseve mniSvnelo­
vania baltiispireTis qveynebis gamocdilebis ga­
ziareba. TurqeTic exmareba saqarTvelos. ase rom
aliansis wevri qveynebi mxars uWeren Tqvens qveya­
nas. saqarTvelo am daxmarebas produqtiulad da
daniSnulebisamebr iyenebs.

noembris Tvis erT-erTi umniSvnelovanesi mov-

lena rusuli samxedro bazis saqarTvelos mx-
arisTvis gadacema iyo. rusuli mxaris gancxadeb-
iT maT srulad Seasrules stambulis erToblivi
xelSekrulebiT gaTvaliswinebuli valdebule-
bebi. aravin uaryofs, rom rusuli bazebis gayvana
Zalian mniSvnelovani faqtia, Tumca gudauTis
bazis sakiTxi isev gaurkveveli rCeba. TvliT, rom
ruseTma bolomde Seasrula nakisri valdebule-
bebi?

ra Tqma unda ara. sanam ruseTi akontrolebs gudau­

Tas ver vityviT, rom mas dakisrebuli valdeb­
ulebebi srulyofilad aqvs Sesrulebuli. vici,
rom gudauTis sakiTxTan dakavSirebiT nato-s
wevri qveynebi gamosavls eZeben, raTa moxdes ev­
ropaSi Cveulebrivi SeiaraRebuli Zalebis Sesaxeb
xelSekrulebis ratificireba. gudauTa ruseTis
mier erT-erTi Seusrulebeli valdebulebaa. ma­
gram Tqven, qarTvelebma, unda icodeT, rom marto
gudauTis sakiTxi ar rCeba ruseTis mier stambulis
valdebulebebis Seusrulebel pirobad. 1999 wlis
stambulis xelSekrulebiT gaTvaliswinebuli val­
debulebebidan, ruseTs bevri maTgani jer kidev ara
aqvs Sesrulebuli. neba momeciT CamovTvalo: erT-
erTi yvelaze didi darRveva moldaveTis terito­
riaze rusuli jarebis ganTavsebaa. daaxloebiT 1500
rusi samxedro dgas dnestrispireTSi rusuli dro­
Sis qveS. dnestrispireTis jari warmoadgens rusul
jars dnestrispireTis droSiT, sadac rusi ofi­
crebi da serJantebi msaxuroben. es rusuli sard­
lobis nawilia. maT rusuli mxaris mier utardebaT
wvrTnebi da rusul SeiaraRebas floben, romelic

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 One of the most important events of the previous month was the
handover of the last Russian military base to the Georgian side.
Russian side claims that it fully implemented all the commit-
ments under the Istanbul Joint Statement. None denies the fact
that withdrawal of the Russian Bases is a very important event
but the issue of Gudauta Base still remains unclear. Do you think
that Russia has implemented its obligations completely?
Of course, not. As long as Russians are still controlling Gudauta,
of course they haven’t implemented the commitments. I know
there is a search for solution on Gudauta that would enable
members of the NATO Alliance to ratify the Treaty on Con-
ventional Forces in Europe. Gudauta is one of the unfulfilled
commitments. But you, Georgians, must be aware that Gudauta
is not the only unfulfilled Istanbul commitments. There is a
wide range of Russian commitments from Istanbul 1999 that
are not fulfilled. Let me list them: the biggest violation of those
commitments is Russian troops in Moldova. Approximately 1
500 Russian soldiers are under the Russian flag. It has Russian
officers and non-commission officers. It is part of the Russian
chain of command. It has Russian training and it has Russian
weaponry that was handed over by the Russian military to the
Transdnistria army. That is one very big violation. The second
big violation is so called “Unaccounted” for Treaty Limited
Equipment. This is heavy weaponry that types that are lim-
ited by the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe and by
the adopted treaty of 1999, there are five such categories of
weapons that have quantitative ceilings put on them, Russia
is not to exceed certain ceilings and are subjects to inspection
in order to count them and see whether or not they exceed the
ceilings. There are places such as Transdnistria in Moldova,
Abkhazia in Georgia, South Ossetia in Georgia and a lot in
Karabachos where the Russian military has handed over to lo-
cal forces very large amount of Treaty Limited Equipment who
are unaccounted for because nobody can inspect them, nobody
can count them. We know they are they, but we don’t know the
numbers. So that is another huge violation of Istanbul Commit-
ments in four places: Transdnistria, Abkhazia, South Ossetia
and Karabachos. So clearly Russia hasn’t fulfilled these com-
mitments. In my opinion, it would be necessary and very desir-
able for Moldova, Georgia and Azerbaijan to consult with each
other and to find a common approach to this problem, not to
handle this problem each one of these countries in isolation
but to increase their bargaining power and their political power
by getting together and calling for solution to these problems.
All three of them, all three countries, in that case, their posi-
tion would be more influential and will carry greater weight in
international conferences than in present situation when each
country resolves these problems individually.
Despite Russia’s claims that the last Russian soldier has left the
territory of Georgia, Russian peacekeeping military contingent
dnestrispireTs ruseTis mxarem gadasca. es ruse­
Tis mxridan erT-erTi yvelaze didi darRvevaa.
meore didi darRveva egreTwodebuli eCSZ (ev­
ropaSi Cveulebrivi SeiaraRebuli Zalebis Sesaxeb)
xelSekrulebis Seusruleblobaa. es warmoadgens
mZime SeiaraRebas, romelic evropaSi Cveulebrivi
SeiaraRebis xelSekrulebiTa da 1999 wels miRe­
buli stambulis xelSekrulebiT izRudeba. Sez­
Rudva moicavs iaraRis xuT kategorias, romlebze­
dac `raodenobrivi zRvaria~ dawesebuli. ruseTma
ar unda gadaaWarbos dawesebul kvotebs da unda
tardebodes am SeiaraRebis Semowmeba da raodeno­
bis aRricxva, raTa ar moxdes dadgenili limitebis
gadaWarbeba. viciT, rom es darRveva arsebobs, Tum­
ca ucnobia zusti ricxvebi. ase rom, es darRvevebi
oTx adgilze arsebobs - dnestrispireTi moldav­
eTSi, afxazeTi da samxreT oseTi saqarTveloSi da
bevri adgili yarabaRSi. Cemi azriT aucilebelia da
sasurvelic, saqarTvelom, moldaveTma da azerbai­
janma erTiani ZalisxmeviT moagvaron es problema.
maTi gaerTianebuli politikuri Zala da erTiani
pozicia ufro met gavlenas da zewolas moaxdens
saerTaSoriso sazogadoebaze.
miuxedavad ruseTis mxaris mtkicebisa, rom uka-
nasknelma rusma samxedrom datova saqarTvelos
teritoria, samxreT oseTisa da afxazeTis kon-
fliqtur zonebSi kvlav rCeba rusuli samSvi-
dobo kontingenti. rogor SeafasebT, ramdenad
efeqturad asruleben isini samSvidobo misias?
fiqrobT, rom rusi “cisferCafxutianebis” sxva
qveynis samSvidoboebiT Canacvleba mniSvnelovan
cvlilebebs gamoiwvevs?
gaaCnia pozicias. ruseTis azriT, isini sakmaod
efeqturad asruleben samSvidobo misias. vici, rom
qarTvelebi, moldavelebi da sxvebi fiqroben, rom
rus samSvidoboTa misia araefeqturia. magram maTi
moqmedebis efeqturoba damokidebulia sxvadasxva
mosazrebaze. ruseTis TvalTaxedviT, isini Zalian
warmatebiT asruleben samSvidobo misiebs, radganac
maT ucxo teritoriebi aqvT dakavebuli – esenia
saqarTvelosa da moldaveTis de faqto aneqsire­
buli teritoriebi. mTeli msoflios masStabiT es
gamonaklisi SemTxvevaa, rodesac erTi qveyana samS­
vidoboebze monopolias flobs. msoflioSi amgvari
SemTxveva sxva ar arsebobs. ruseTma gaerTianebuli
erebis organizaciasa da sxva saerTaSoriso or­
ganizaciebs bevrjer sTxova yofili sabWoTa kav­
Siris teritoriaze ruseTisTvis mieniWebina gansa­
kuTrebuli pasuxismgebloba, rogorc samSvidobo
misiis ganmxorcielebel Zalas. ra Tqma unda, Tanx­
moba vercerTi organizaciis ver miiRo. magram ru­
seTs es misia akisria de faqtod, aRiarebis gareSe,
Tumca saerTaSoriso sazogadoebis pozicia met-
naklebad tolerantulia. rusi samSvidoboebis mis­
iebi afxazeTSi, samxreT oseTsa da dnestrispireTSi
ar eqvemdebareba arc gaeros an sxva organizaciis
kriteriumebs. ufro metic, ruseTi ar SeiZleba iyos
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samSvidobo misiis ganmxorcielebeli, radganac is am
konfliqtebSi erT-erTi mxarea. is agresoria. igi ara
marto am konfliqtebis Semadgeneli nawilia, aramed
pirvel rigSi swored mas ekisreba konfliqtebis
dawyebis saqmeSi pasuxismgebloba. igi saomari Zalis
gamoyenebiT SeiWra orive teritoriaze. ase rom,
ruseTi ar SeiZleba iyos samSvidobo misiis ganmxor­
cielebeli, rac CvenTvis Zalian kargad aris cnobi­
li. afxazeTSi rusuli samxedro Zalis Seyvanam eT­
nikuri wmenda gamoiwvia. es yvelaferi kargad aris
cnobili, magram SeiZleba vinmem Tvalebi daxuWos.
Cven da Cvenma yvela megobarma qveyanam mSvenivrad
icis es. risi gakeTebaa SesaZlebeli? arsebuli
samSvidobo operaciebi ori mimarTulebiT trans­
formacias saWiroebs: es aris misi saerTaSoriso da
G eorgia has the highest rate of support for
NATO membership of all the countries that ever
became aspirants for NATO
samoqalaqo personaliT Canacvleba. vfiqrob, es op­
eraciebi SeiZleba upirveles yovlisa samoqalaqo
samxedro elementebis saSualebiT, magram Seicavdes
ZiriTadad SeuiaraRebel damkvirveblebs. SeiaraRe­
buli ZalebisTvis aranairi aucilebloba ar arse­
bobs, rom nebismieri sxva qveynidan moxdes cecxlis
Sewyvetis monitoringi samxreT oseTSi, afxazeTsa
da dnestrispireTSi. igives ganxorcieleba sakmaod
kargad SeuZliaT samxedro damkvirveblebs, samo­
qalaqo damkvirveblebs, SeuiaraRebel damkvirveb­
lebs. rusi samxedroebis ar arsebobis SemTxvevaSi,
situacia namdvilad ar aris saxifaTo. rodesac
rusi samxedroebi iq arian, maSin ufro SesaZlebelia
velodoT provokaciebs. magram rusi samxedroebis
ararsebobis SemTxvevaSi, namdvilad ar arsebobs
provokaciebis realuri mizezi. aravin aris dain­
teresebuli kidev axali SeiaraRebuli konfliqtis
provocirebaSi. drodadro saqarTvelos mTavroba
da parlamenti iniciativiT gamodis da saerTaSor­
iso organizaciebisgan rusuli samSvidobo opera­
ciebis transformacias iTxovs. iniciativebma ara­
nairi Sedegi ar gamoiRo. albaT imitom, rom amas ar
qonda mudmivi xasiaTi. dro gamoSvebiT qveyndeba sa­
parlamento rezoluciebi an samTavrobo gancxade­
bebi, romelic sxvadasxva sakiTxis ganxilvas moiTx­
ovs. Cemi azriT, sakmarisi zomebi jer ar miuRiaT.
vgulisxmob imas, ra Tqma unda, rom saqarTvelo am
yvelafers sakmaod Zlierad grZnobs, saqarTvelos
megobari qveynebic sakmaod Zlierad grZnoben amas.
magram isev aucilebelia Tanmimdevruli saTanado
nabijebis gadadgma saerTaSoriso organizaciebTan
dakavSirebiTac. radganac gawevrianebis samoqmedo
gegmaze gadasvlis miReba realuri perspeqtivaa.
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still remains in the conflict zones of South Ossetia and Abk-
hazia. Your assessments, how effectively are they carrying out
peacekeeping missions? Do you think that replacement of the
Russian “Blue Helmets” by alternate peacekeeping forces of
other countries will bring substantial changes?
From the Russian point of view they are very effective. I know
Georgians also Moldavians and others think that Russian
peacekeepers are ineffective. But it depends from whose point
of view. From the Russian point of view they are very effective
because they are occupying foreign territory; they are simply de
facto annexing territory of Georgia and Moldova. And this is
why they should get rid of them. This is a unique situation in
the entire world when one country has a monopoly on peace-
keeping. You don’t have any variants in the world. Russia has
asked to the United Nations and other international organiza-
tions many times to recognize special responsibility for Russia
as peacekeeper on the territory of the former Soviet Union. Of
course, nobody has recognized such a role, but such a role ex-
ists de facto, unrecognized but tolerated. Russian peacekeeping
operations in Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria don’t
correspond to any of United Nations or other criteria for peace-
keeping troops. There is a whole set of criteria established by
the United Nations and followed worldwide about what con-
stitute peacekeeping troops. Russian troops on the territory of
Georgia and Moldova don’t correspond to any of those criteria.
Moreover Russia can’t be a peacekeeper because, in fact, Rus-
sia is a party to the conflicts. It is an aggressor. It is not only
the party of these conflicts but it is a part which is responsible
for starting these conflicts on the first base. It is the aggressor
party. It has intervened militarily in both places. So Russia can’t
qualify as peacekeeper. This we know very well. In Abkhazia the
Russian military intervention has resulted the ethnic cleansing
which is still not reversed till the present day or reversed only
with a small measure. So all this is well known. Maybe some
people close their eyes to these. But we know this; we and our
friends know these facts very well. What to do? The existing
peacekeeping operations need to undergo transformation in
two ways: internationalization and civilianization. I think that
these operations can be primarily civilian with military element
to them but consisting predominantly of unarmed observers.
There is no need for army troops from any country to observe
the ceasefire in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and Transmistria:
military observers, civilian observers, unarmed observers could
do the same thing very well. The situation is not really danger-
ous as long as Russian military isn’t there. When the Russian
military is there, you can expect provocations. But when the
Russian military isn’t there, there is no real reason for provoca-
tions. Nobody is interested in provoking another clash, another
armed conflict. Georgia has from time to time in the govern-
ment and in the parliament announced initiatives to demand
from international organizations the transformation of Russian
peacekeeping operations. These initiatives haven’t produced re-
sults. Because in my opinion they haven’t been persuaded con-
sistently. That has been from time to time parliamentary reso-
lutions or governmental announcements that will demand this,
will demand that. Not enough has been done, in my opinion. I
mean, of course, Georgia feels about this very strongly, Geor-
gia’s friends feel about this very strongly, but it remains neces-
sary to see greater consistence in greater continuity in taking
the necessary steps in international organizations. As long as
the prospect of getting Membership Action Plan from NATO is
realistic prospect. Then I could understand that Georgia should
be quiet about the peacekeeping for a while and waits until it
receives Membership Action Plan or even until it becomes a
member of NATO, than try to transform these peacekeeping
operations from a stronger position, from a position of a mem-
ber of NATO. I could understand this; this may be the correct
tactic. So much will depend on whether or how soon Georgia
will get the Membership Action Plan and then actual NATO
membership. The allies want predictable and tranquil Georgia-
Russia relations during this transitional period. This too is a
new reaction. So perhaps it will be wise or necessary or advis-
able. Let me rephrase this: perhaps it might be advisable for
Georgia to take two stage approaches. First focus everything
on becoming a member of NATO and demonstrating that it
can do everything to normalize relations with Russia. There
is a member of NATO be in a stronger position to demand
the transformation of the existing Russian peacekeeping opera-
tions. I am just thinking out loud I am not sure what Georgian
officials are thinking about this. It might be advisable to take
this to stage approach.
The position of the Georgian Government is to resolve the “fro-
zen conflicts” peacefully. What is your opinion, what is the main
reason that causes the stagnation of conflicts resolution process?
In your opinion what is the best way to solve these conflicts?
The Georgian government has tried a number of approaches dur-
ing the course of the years. I mean peaceful approaches. For a
long time they haven’t worked. Recently I think the Georgian
government has found some new approaches which seem, in my
opinion, to be working and are promising. One is to set up on
part of the secessionist territories, new administrative structures,
loyal to the legitimate government in Tbilisi. So we have the ad-
ministration headed by Dimitri Sanakoev on part of the territory
of South Ossetia and the legitimate authorities of Abkhazia who
control Upper Abkhazia. These new developments have changed
kargad mesmis, rom samSvidoboebTan dakavSire­
biT, saqarTvelos es kursi droebiT SeCerebuli
aqvs, radgan gawevrianebis samoqmedo gegmaze gad­
asvlas an Tundac nato-s sruluflebian wevrobas
elis. am problemis mogvarebas saqarTvelo ufro
Zlieri, nato-s wevri qveynis poziciidan Seecdeba.
am SemTxvevaSi es swori taqtikaa. ase rom, yvelaferi
damokidebulia imaze, Tu ramdenad swrafad mi­
iRebs saqarTvelo gawevrianebis samoqmedo gegmas
da gaxdeba nato-s sruluflebiani wevri. nato-s
wevr qveynebs gardamavali periodis ganmavlobaSi
saqarTvelo-ruseTis mSvidi da gawonasworebuli
urTierToba surT. es aseve axali reaqciaa. ase rom,
SesaZloa es iyos ufro gonivruli, aucilebeli
an sasurveli. neba momeciT movaxdino aRniSnulis
perifrazireba: saqarTvelosTvis sasurvelia am
problemis mogvarebas etapobrivad miudges. pirvel
rigSi unda ecados gaxdes nato-s wevri qveyana da
Camoayalibos normaluri urTierToba ruseTTan.
amis Semdeg, rogorc ukve nato-s sruluflebian
qveyanas, mas ukve SeeZleba moiTxovos rusi samSvi­
doboebis Canacvleba. me ubralod xmamaRla vfiqrob
SesaZlo variantebze.
saqarTvelos xelisuflebis pozicia “gayinuli
konfliqtebis” mSvidobiani gziT mogvarebaa.
rogoria Tqveni azri, ra iwvevs konfliqtebis
gadaWris stagnaciis mizezs? Tqveni azriT, rogo-
ria konfliqtebis gadaWris saukeTeso gza?
wlebis ganmavlobaSi saqarTvelos mTavroba cdi­
lobs konfliqtebis mSvidobiani gziT mogvare­
bas sxvadasxvanairad miudges. sakmaod didi xnis
ganmavlobaSi am sakiTxTan dakavSirebiT araferi
keTdeboda. vfiqrob, rom bolo periodSi saqarT­
velos mTavrobas konfliqtebTan mimarTebaSi ra­
modenime midgoma aqvs napovni, rac Cemi azriT,
dadebiTia da optimisturic. erT-erTi maTgania
separatistul teritoriebze centraluri mTavro­
bisadmi loialuri axali administraciuli struq­
turis Seqmna. samxreT oseTis teritoriaze saqarT­
velos ukve aqvs droebiTi administracia dimitri
sanakoevis xelmZRvanelobiT da aseve afxazeTis
legitimuri mTavroba, romelic zeda afxazeTs
akontrolebs. aRniSnulma axalma iniciativeb­
ma safuZvlianad Secvala situacia saqarTvelos
sasargeblod. saqarTvelos legitimuri mTavrobis
mier SemoqmedebiTi da mamaci nabijebi idgmeba. CemT­
vis es imis maCvenebelia, rom qarTveli xalxi axali
midgomis Ziebas didi yuradRebiT miudga da ipovna
kidec. me mxars vuWer amas. es ukve politikuri Seji­
bria Tbilisisa da moskovis legitimur mTavrobebs
Soris afxazeTisa da samxreT oseTisaTvis. saqarT­
velo evropuli orientaciis qveyanaa. naTlad Cans,
rom 2004 wlidan zemo afxazeTisa da qurTas xelmZ­
Rvaneloba afxazeTisa da samxreT oseTis mosax­
leobas pirvelad sTavazobs evropul arCevans.
miuxedavad maTi eTnikurobis an erovnulobisa,
samxreT oseTisa da afxazeTis mosaxleoba, asobiT
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wlebis ganmavlobaSi cxovrobda srul provincial­
ur izolaciaSi da evropis Sesaxeb warmodgenac ar
hqondaT. garda izolaciisa, maTi msoflmxedveloba
moskovze iyo orientirebuli. maTTvis moskovi sam­
yaros centri iyo da sabWoTa kavSiris satelevizio
propagandis, mogvianebiT ki – rusuli sateleviz­
io propagandis gavlenas ganicdidnen. amJamad ki
situacia pirvelad Seicvala, vinaidan saqarTvelos
gadawyvetili aqvs evropuli mimarTulebiT iaros.
ase rom, samxreT oseTisa da afxazeTis mosaxleobas
is istoriuli Sansi aqvT, romelic maT mTeli arse­
bobis ganmavlobaSi ar hqoniaT - es aris evropisken
swrafva da Tu maT sworad aqvT gadawyvetili, ma­
Sin saqarTvelos unda miyvnen evropisken. es axali
mdgomareobaa, romelic konfliqtebTan dakavSire­
biT ZalTa Tanafardobis mTlian cvlilebas gamoi­
wvevs. saqarTvelos aqvs Sansi samxreT oseTisa da
afxazeTis konfliqtebis mSvidobiani gziT mogvare­
bisa - SesTavazos maT mosaxleobas airCion gayvnen
Tu ara saqarTvelos evropuli integraciisaken. es
didi arCevani da SesaZleblobaa. moxaruli var, rom
saqarTvelos es gaTavisebuli aqvs. ra Tqma unda,
Zalian bevri ram damokidebulia saqarTvelos Sida
reformebze, radganac saqarTvelos yvela Sida re­
forma evropaSi `Sesasvleli bileTia~. reformebi
warmatebuli iqneba im SemTxvevaSi, Tu saqarTvelo
mimzidveli gaxdeba afxazeTisa da samxreT oseTis
mosaxleobisaTvis. amis Semdeg mTeli situacia Zir­
fesvianad Seicvleba. aqedan gamomdinare saqarT­
velo cdilobs soxumis xelmZRvanelobasTan awar­
moos molaparakebebi rusuli mxaris Carevis gareSe.
ruseTi `gamarTulebeli faqtoria~. Tu Tbilissa da
soxums Soris diskusiebi ruseTis warmomadgenlebis
TandaswrebiT warimarTeba, romlebic afxazi warmo­
madgenlebis zurgs ukan moqmedeben da eubnebian ra
unda Tqvan an rogor unda imoqmedon. maSin ra Tqma
unda, dialogis warmarTva amaoa. magram Tu Tbilis­
sa da soxums Soris pirdapiri dialogi warimarTeba
ruseTis mxaris gareSe, maSin saqarTvelos sasarge­
blod situaciis Sesacvlelad ukeTes Sansebs vxe­
dav. vfiqrob, es mxolod dasawyisia da Tbilisma
aRebuli kursiT unda gaagrZelos moqmedeba.
paraskevs ruseTma xeli moawera kanons eSCZ
xelSekrulebaSi ruseTis monawileobis droe-
biTi SeCerebis Sesaxeb. uqmnis Tu ara es gadaw-
yvetileba safrTxes evropas?
am kiTxvaze pasuxis gacema advili ar iqneba, rad­
ganac damokidebulia imaze, Tu evropis romel
nawilzea saubari. zogierT evropul qveyanaze es
saerTod ar axdens gavlenas. zogierTi ki – pirda­
pir ganicdis zegavlenas, gansakuTrebiT norve­
gia da TurqeTi. norvegia yvelaze metad. norveg­
ias ruseTTan saxmeleTo kavSiri aqvs. Cveulebrivi
SeiaraRebis Sesaxeb xelSekrulebidan gamosvlis
SemTxvevaSi, ruseTi Tavisuflad ganaTavsebs didi
raodenobiT samxedro Zalas norvegiis sazRvarze.
norvegiis mxaris gancxadebebidan da moqmedebe­
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the situation on the ground significantly in Georgia’s favor.
These are very creative steps, very courageous steps from Tbilisi.
To me this is a demonstration that some people in Tbilisi are sit-
ting down and thinking very creatively and with great dedication
about new approaches and they found this new approach which
is very promising. I support this very much. There is already a
political competition between the authorities loyal to Tbilisi and
the authorities loyal to Moscow in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Georgia is a European oriented state. It is clearly seen since 2004
the authorities in Upper Abkhazia and in Kurta, South Ossetia
is offering the population of South Ossetia and Abkhazia for the
first time European choice. The people of South Ossetia and
Abkhazia, regardless of ethnicity or nationality of this people,
have lived for hundred of years in complete provincial isolation;
they had no idea about Europe. There were isolated but also they
world outlook centered on Moscow. To them Moscow was the
center of the universe. They did not know anything else. They
had strong influence of Soviet Union television propaganda, lat-
er Russian television propaganda. This situation is now changing
for the first time, because Georgia has decided to go in the Eu-
ropean direction. So the people of South Ossetia and Abkhazia
have historic chance which they never had during their entire
existence, to look to Europe. If they decide so to follow Georgia
into Europe. This is a brand new situation that changes entirely
the correlation of forces regarding these conflicts. Georgia has a
chance to solve these conflicts peacefully by offering the people
of South Ossetia and Abkhazia the European choice by telling
them - you can follow us with Georgia into Europe if you choose.
It is a huge change and huge opportunity and I am very glad that
Georgia is capitalizing of this opportunity. Of course, very much
is depend on Georgia’s all internal reforms, because Georgia’s all
internal reforms are “entrance ticket” to Europe. So those reforms
are successfully if Georgia becomes attractive to the population
of Abkhazia and South Ossetia then the whole situation on the
ground will change. Now already at this point Georgia is trying
to enter into a dialogue with the leaders in Sokhumi without the
participation of Russia. Russia is of course a “spoiling factor”. If
discussions between Tbilisi and Sokhumi take place in the pres-
ence of Russian representatives who are looking over the shoul-
ders of Abkhaz representatives telling them what to say, telling
them what to do, than of course, the dialogue is pointless. But
if direct dialogue could be started between Tbilisi and Sokhumi
without Russian participation, the sincere dialogue, then again
I see better chances for attracting, for changing the situation in
Georgia’s favor. I think this is beginning. It is not only the begin-
ning of this role, it is a promising role and I think Tbilisi should
continue on this road.
On Friday Russia signed a law suspending Russia’s participation
in CFE Treaty. Will this decision add to uncertainty about the
security situation in Europe?
The answer is not simple, because it depends on which part of
Europe we are talking about. Some European countries are not
affected at all. Other European countries are directly effected
especially Norway and Turkey. Norway - most of all. Norway is
really worried; Norway shares a land border with Russia. Nor-
way is worrying that by abandoning the CFE treaty, Russia will
now be free to concentrate large military forces on the border
of Norway. We can see from Norwegian statements and actions
that the Norwegians are worried and they would like for the
CFE treaty to be ratified, even if Russia hasn’t fulfilled its Istan-
bul commitments in order to maintain the quantitative ceilings
on forces that Russia can deploy on the northern flange. We
are talking about the land forces. Turkey is somewhat worried
for the same reason but not as much as Norway because Turkey
doesn’t have a land border with Russia. Georgia is in between.
Of course, this gives Turkey a very strong motive and incentive
to make sure that Georgia remains independent and that there
is no Russian subversion of Georgia’s independence. Because if
that happens than Turkey will again face Russia directly on the
coast land border. So this situation gives Turkey strong incen-
tive to support Georgia’s complete independence. Other Euro-
pean countries and also the United States are worried for dif-
ferent reasons. The CFE treaty includes very developed system
of verification and inspection and exchanges of information.
If the treaty is not ratified than this system can not operate
and will not operate. To many countries the opportunity to be
part of this system is even more important than the quantitative
bidan SegviZlia vnaxoT Tu rogor awuxebs nor­
vegias es sakiTxi da surT Cveulebrivi SeiaraRe­
bis xelSekrulebis ratificireba, maSinac roca
ruseTs ar Seusrulebia stambulis valdebulebebi,
`raodenobrivi zRvaris~ SenarCuneba, man SesaZloa
CrdiloeTis sazRvarTan Zalebi ganalagos. saubar­
ia saxmeleTo Zalebze. TurqeTsac awuxebs igive
sakiTxi, magram ara ise rogorc norvegias, radganac
TurqeTs ruseTTan saxmeleTo kavSiri ara aqvs.
maT Soris saqarTveloa. ra Tqma unda, es TurqeTs
Zalian Zlier motivacias aZlevs darwmundes, rom
saqarTvelo damoukidebelia da rom ruseTis mxri­
dan damoukideblobas safrTxe ar emuqreba. es situ­
acia TurqeTs Zlier motivacias aZlevs, rom mxari
dauWiros saqarTvelos srul damoukideblobas.
evropis sxvadasxva qveynebi da amerikis SeerTebuli
Statebi sxvadasxva mizezis gamo SeSfoTebulia. eCSZ
xelSekruleba moicavs verifikacias, gadamowme­
basa da informaciis gacvlas. Tu xelSekruleba ar
iqneba ratificirebuli, mas ar SeeZleba moqmedeba.
bevri qveynisTvis am sistemis SemadgenlobaSi yof­
nis SesaZlebloba ufro mniSvnelovania, vidre Za­
lebze `raodenobrivi zRvari~. swored amitom bevri
qveyana SemoqmedebiT gzas eZebs, rom rogorme moax­
dinos am xelSekrulebis ratificireba da daarwmu­
nos `raodenobrivi zRvaris~ mudmivad moqmedebasa
da informaciis gadacvlis mravalferovnebas, gad­
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amowmebasa da gadacvlaze. Tumca ruseTs sruliad
gansxvavebuli mizani aqvs. ivnisSi venaSi gamarTu­
li molaparakebebisas ruseTma naTlad dagvanaxa
Tavisi pozicia, rom mas xelSekrulebis ara marto
ratificireba surs, aramed dasaxuli aqvs sruliad
axali mizani, romelic mimdinare wlis ivnisSi erT­
gvari siurprizic iyo. misi mizania sruliad axali
xelSekrulebis Seqmna, sadac ruseTs calmxrivi up­
iratesoba eqneba, radganac misTvis miuRebelia 1990
wlis an 1999 wels adaptirebuli xelSekrulebis nak­
isri valdebulebebi. SemiZlia vTqva, rom es mxolod
ruseTis iluziaa. dae, ruseTma daarRvios stambu­
lis xelSekrulebiT nakisri valdebulebebi, xolo
Cven movaxdinoT adaptirebuli xelSekrulebis
ratificireba. amis Semdeg yvelaferi kargad iqne­
ba, radganac ruseTma ukve mkafiod ganacxada, rom
surs xelSekrulebis Tavidan Seqmna. xelSekruleb­
is xelmeored Seqmnis xuTi moTxovna arsebobs, rom­
lis Tanaxmadac ruseTi ufro gaaZlierebs Tavis
poziciebs evropaSi. im SemTxvevaSi, Tu ruseTi ug­
ulebelyofs xelSekrulebas, misTvis SeuZlebeli
iqneba dauyovnebliv aRadginos Cveulebrivi Sei­
araReba evropaSi. amas ramodenime weli dasWird­
eba. navTobisa da gazis vaWrobiT miRebuli maRali
Semosavali da ruseTis mTavrobis xelSi arsebuli
simdidre, ruseTs saSualebas miscems Seqmnas Zlieri
Cveulebrivi SeiaraReba, raTa aRadginos Zlieri
Cveulebrivi SeiaraReba evropaSi. ramodenime wlis
Semdeg Cven evropaSi Cveulebrivi SeiaraRebis Se­
jibris momswreni viqnebiT, radganac ruseTi Tavisi
Zalebis modernizebas axdens, zrdis maT SesaZle­
blobebs TavdasxmiTi ieriSebisTvis. xolo evropas
sapasuxo reaqciis garda araferi darCeba.
ra rekomendaciebs miscemT saqarTvelos Tav-
dacvis saministros da ras usurvebdiT Cvens
qveyanas axali wlisTvis?
Tavdacvis sferoSi gaagrZeleT ise, rogorc aqamde
moqmedebdiT. Tqven warmatebiT asrulebT yve­
lafers. TqvenTvis momavali weli gansakuTrebuli
iqneba, radganac ianvarSi saprezidento arCevnebi
gaqvT, xolo Semdeg nato-s samiti, sadac saqarT­
velo imedovnebs nato-sTan mimarTebaSi dRevandel
statusze maRali statusi miiRos. bolo wlebis
ganmavlobaSi saqarTvelo mudmivad da warmatebu­
lad miiwevs win. erovnuli Sida produqtis maCven­
eblis ormag zrdas udidesi mniSvneloba aqvs, gan­
sakuTrebiT ki ruseTis satransporto blokadisa
da savaWro embargos pirobebSi. amgvar pirobebSi
qveynis ekonomikurad ormagad zrda STambeWdavi
Sedegia. imedi maqvs, rom sruliad saqarTvelos
mosaxleoba da ara mxolod umravlesoba demokrati­
isadmi udides pasuxismgeblobasa da Tanamedrove
midgomas gamoxatavs.
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ceilings on forces. So that’s why many countries are looking
for creative ways to somehow ratify the CFE treaty and ensure
the continuity of the quantitative ceilings and continuity of the
inspection, verification and information exchange system. Rus-
sia however has completely different goal. Russia made clear
already in June of this year during the round of negotiations in
Vienna that it doesn’t want only to ratify the CFE treaty but it
has set for itself an entirely new goal which came as a surprise
in June of this year. The goal is to completely rewrite the treaty
to have entirely new treaty where Russia would enjoy a number
of unilateral advantages that is doesn’t enjoy under the 1990
treaty or the 1999 adapted treaty. In my opinion, it would be
somewhat of an illusion to say. Let’s allow Russia to violate the
Istanbul commitments and therefore let us ratify the adapted
CFE treaty and then everything will be fine, because Russia has
announced very clearly through putting itself and through other
Russian officers that they want to rewrite the treaty. There are
five demands about rewriting the treaty which will put Russia
in a stronger position in Europe. For the time being if Russia
abandons the CFE treaty it won’t be able immediately to build
up conventional forces in Europe. This will take a few years. But
after a few years of accumulating very high income from oil and
gas sales and acquiring more and more wealth in the hands of
the Russian government, then Russians will be able to build the
real conventional forces to rebuild strong conventional forces
in Europe and few years from now we can witness conventional
arms race in Europe as Russia is modernizing its forces, making
them capable of offensive actions and the Europeans having no
choice but to respond.
What recommendations and wishes would you give to Georgia?
In defence sphere continue what you are doing. You are doing
very well. This is very special year because there will be presi-
dential elections in January and then the NATO Summit where
Georgia hopes to receive a higher status than the present status
in regard to NATO. Georgia has been modernizing very rapidly
and very successfully in the last few years. Double digit growth
of GNP is an enormous achievement especially in the condi-
tions of Russia’s transport blockade and commercial embargo.
Under such conditions to have double digit economic growth is
very impressive result. I hope that the entire Georgian nation
not just a majority but the entire Georgian nation demonstrates
responsibility and modern attitude to democracy.
2007 has been a good year for Georgia in the
area of defence reform. Georgia stands proudly
at the forefront of international operations and
is now the third largest contributor to Coalition
Forces in Iraq. The new Ministry of Defence is an
imposing statement of intent, which is mirrored
by the very real sense of progress and continuity
of effort that one sees there.
For next year, our first thoughts are with the
officers and soldiers of 3 Infantry Brigade in
Iraq and their families back home in Georgia.
Separation from your family is a regular part of
Armed Forces life but is particularly trying at this
time of year and I wish them all a good tour of
duty and a safe return home. We look forward to
further assisting Georgia on her path to Euro-
Atlantic integration next year.
Georgia will begin 2008 with Presidential
elections. It is vital for the country’s future course
that these are free and fair, with full media
freedom. We will be working to support this.
H. e. Denis Keefe
HM Ambassador
Nick Ridout
Lt Col, British Defence Attaché for Armenia,
Azerbaijan and Georgia
2007 weli saqarTvelos Tavdacvis sferos
reformirebis kuTxiT sakmaod mniSvnelovani
iyo. qarTuli kontingenti amayad dgas
saerTaSoriso samSvidobo operaciebis wina
rigebSi da Tavisi saqmianobiT erayis
koaliciuri Zalebis SemadgenlobaSi pirvel adgils
ikavebs. axal Tavdacvis saministros mdgradi
da uwyveti progresis naTlad gamoxatuli kursi
aqvs.
momavali wlisaTvis, Cveni mzera eraySi mesame
qveiTi brigadis oficrebisa da jariskacebis,
agreTve saqarTveloSi maTi ojaxebisaken iqneba
mimarTuli. ojaxisgan moSoreba jariskacis
cxovrebaSi Cveulebrivi movlenaa. vusurvebT maT
warmatebul samsaxursa da ojaxebSi usafrTxod
dabrunebas. survili gvaqvs, momaval wels xeli
SevuwyoT saqarTvelos swrafvas evro-atlantikur
struqturebSi integraciis gzaze.
2008 wels saqarTvelo saprezidento arCevnebiT
daiwyebs. qveynis momavlisaTvis arCevnebis
samarTlianad da demokratiulad Catareba
Zalian mniSvnelovania. Cven kvlav gavagrZelebT
muSaobas Tqvens mxardasaWerad.
misi aRmatebuleba denis qifi
didi britaneTis elCi saqarTveloSi
nik ridauti
didi britaneTis Tavdacvis ataSe saqarTveloSi,
azerbaijansa da somxeTSi
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 xuTi Tvea me-3 qveiTi brigada vasitis provinciaSi
imyofeba. koaliciuri jarebis sardlobis
gadawyvetilebiT, maT provinciis kon­trolis
uflebamosileba oficialurad gadaabares. am faqtTan
dakavSirebiT al kutSi saqa­rTvelos Tavdacvis
saministros delegacia Cavida. Tumca, Tavdacvis
uwyebis xelmZRva­neli pirebis eraySi viziti pirveli
ar aris. 2007 wlis gazafxulze qarTuli qvedanayofebis
mosanaxuleblad baRdadSi saqarTvelos Tav­dacvis
ministri imyofeboda. daviT kezeraSv­ilma maSin swored
vasitis provinciaSi mdeba­re is bazac moinaxula, sadac
dRes me-3 qveiTi bri­gada msaxurobs.

Five months have already passed since the 3d Infantry

Brigade has been stationed in Wasit province. In
accordance with the order of the Commander, Multi-
National Force-Iraq, they have been formally delegated
the authority of control over this province. In
recognition, representatives of the Ministry of Defence
of Georgia arrived in Al Kut. It should be noted that this
is not the first visit of Georgian Military officials to
Iraq. During the spring 2007, the Defence Minister, David
Kezerashvili visited Georgian military units in Baghdad.
During this most recent trip he visited the base where the
3d Infantry Brigade is now stationed.

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reportaJi
wiTeli zonidan

rusudan cimakuriZe
Rusudan Tsimakuridze

vasitis provincia 35 aTas kvadratul kilo-
metrzea gadaWimuli. erT milioniani mosax-
leobis nawils sunitebi da Siitebi, nawils ki
Sereuli mosaxleoba Seadgens. aq, “delta” ba-
zaze, 2000 qarTvel samxedro mosamsaxuresTan
erTad, mSvidobis damyarebas amerikeli, ya­za­
xi, poloneli, rumineli da salvadoreli samx-
edroebi emsaxurebian.
maTTvis uflebamosilebis gadabarebis ceremonia
qalaq al kutSi 8 oqtombers Sedga. qarTuli del­
egaciis TviTmfrinavi `delta~ bazaze swored am
dRes daeSva. saqarTvelos Tavdacvis ministris
The province of Wasit covers 35 thousand
square kilometers. The population is one mil-
lion, from which part are Sunni, part are Shia
and part – mixed. There, on Forward Operat-
ing Base `Delta`, American, Kazakh, Polish, Ro-
manian and Salvadorian soldiers and other
military personnel are carrying out their
peacekeeping duties, along with 2000 Geor-
gians.
The ceremony which delegated the control authority was held on
8th of October, in Al Kut. The aircraft with the Georgian delega-

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Reporting from the
Red Zone
tion on board landed on the airfield of the Delta base on that day.
The first Deputy Minister of Defence of Georgia, Batu Kutelia,
the Chief of the Joint Staff of Georgia, Zaza Gogava and other
officials of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia were met by the
leadership of the 3d Infantry Brigade. This visit was especially
important for the personnel who are fulfilling their peacekeeping
mission several hundred kilometers away from their home coun-
try. They had been eagerly preparing for that day.
The priest, Father Gabriel consecrated the banner of the brigade
and blessed everybody. Father Gabriel has accompanied the bri-
gade from the very beginning of the mission and has managed
Sexvedra koaliciis sardlobasTan
Meeting with the Coalition Command
gaerTianebuli Stabis ufrosi brigadis
pirad Semadgenlobas xvdeba
Chief of Joint Staff Meets the Brigade Personnel
pirvel moadgiles baTu quTelias, SeiaraRebuli
Zalebis gaerTianebuli Stabis ufross, polkovnik
zaza gogavasa da Tavdacvis uwyebis sxva oficialur
warmomadgenlebs aerodromze me-3 qveiTi brigadis
xelmZRvaneli pirebi daxvdnen. qveynidan Sors myo­
fi samxedroebisaTvis es stumroba gansakuTrebiT
mniSvnelovani iyo da rogorc Tavad aRniSnavdnen, am
dRisTvis gansa-kuTrebulad emzadebodnen.
brigadis droSa mama gabrielma akurTxa da TiToeu­
li samxedro daloca. mama gabrieli brigadas samSob­
lodan gahyva Tan da maTi daxmarebiT samlocvelo
moawyo aq. moZRvari ambobs, rom jariskacebs sulieri
gamxneveba da locva sWirdebaT. gadatvirTuli re­
Jimis miuxedavad, isini aRsarebis Tqmas da ziare­
bas mainc axerxeben, rac maT sulier simtkicesa da
Zlierebas matebs.
polkovnikma zaza gogavam jariskacebs dakisre­
buli misiis warmatebiT mimdinareobisTvis mad­
loba gadauxada: `minda yvelam gaigos ras niSnavs
qarTveli meomari da misi Rirseba. siamayiT vimsax­
urebdi TiToeuli Tqvenganis gverdiT. koaliciuri
jarebis sardloba yovelTvis xazgasmiT aRniSnavs
qarTvelebis gansakuTrebul wvlils globaluri
usafrTxoebis uzrunvelyofaSi. meamayeba, rom er­
aySic qarTulma qvedanayofebma Rirseuli saxeli
daimkvidres. Rirseulad daubrundiT Tqvens qveya­
nas. gfaravdeT RmerTi.~
koaliciuri jarebis mravalerovnuli diviziis me­
Tauri, general-maiori linCi, romelic ceremonias
eswreboda, saqarTvelodan Casul stumrebs eraySi
myofi qarTvelebis warmatebebze esaubra: `pativi
mergo memsaxura oriaTas araCveulebriv qarTvel
meomarTan erTad. me-7 brigada, romlis Semadgen­
lobaSic qarTuli qvedanayofic Sedis, Zalian mniS­
vnelovan misiaSi monawileobs da qarTveli meomrebi
Zalian kargad momzadebulebi da saTanadod aRWur­
vilebi arian.
qarTulma SeiaraRebulma Zalebma unda uzrunve­
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lyos iranidan mosalodneli Tavdasxmis blokireba,
Seamowmos da SeaCeros yvela satvirTo gadamzidavi.
maT aseve evalebaT mosaxleobis dacva.
qarTveli samxedroebi profesionalebi arian da
Zalian kargad gaarTmeven Tavs dakisrebul misias~.
sazeimo ceremonias qarTuli da ucxouri media
aSuqebda. rogorc erayeli Jurnalistebi amboben,
adgilobrivi mosaxleoba qarTvelebs jer kargad
ar icnobs. Tumca, qarTveli samxedroebi yvelafers
akeTeben imisTvis, rom maTgan arsebiTad gansxvave­
buli tradiciebis mqone mosaxleobasTan saerTo ena
gamonaxon.
qarTuli brigada provinciaSi CasvlisTanave mosax­
leobas da Seixebs Sexvda. bazis teritoriaze maT
pres-konferencia gamarTes, sadac aRniSnes, rom
qarTvelebis eraySi yofnis erTaderTi misia mSvido­
bis damyarebaa.
vasitis provinciis gasakontroleblad, qarTveli
samxedroebis samuSao dRe dilis 6 saaTze iwyeba.
yoveldRiuri samoqmedo gegma Stabis SenobaSi wina
dRiT dgeba. brigadis xelmZRvaneloba ikribeba da
dRis bolos Catarebuli samuSaoebis detalebs ixi­
lavs.
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to build a chapel, with the help of the soldiers. The Father says
that the soldiers have a great need to be supported morally and,
despite the hard daily regime, they are always ready to pray, and
to receive Eucharist. This provides comfort to them.
Colonel Zaza Gogava thanked the soldiers for their excellent
service: ` I want everybody to know what it means to be a Geor-
gian soldier. I carry my service with pride amongst you, side
by side with any of you. The Multi-National Force greatly ap-
preciates the special contribution of Georgians to global secu-
rity. I am proud of the respect that our Georgian soldiers have
earned. I wish you a peaceful return to our native country and
God bless you.`
The leader of the Multinational Division Central, Major General
Lynch, attended the meeting and spoke to the Georgian guests
about the success the Georgian soldiers have achieved in Iraq. “It
is my honor to serve with 2000 excellent Georgian soldiers. The
7th brigade, where the Georgian unit is included, participates in
a very important mission and the Georgian soldiers are very well
trained and equipped.
The Georgian Forces are assigned the mission to protect the
Iraqi border with Iran. They must stop and search any vehicle
and additionally, they have to defend the civil population.

Georgians are good professionals and I am sure they can com-
plete the mission.”
The ceremony has been highlighted in the Georgian and for-
eign media. The Iraqi journalists said that local population
does not know the Georgians very well yet but Georgian sol-
diers are doing everything possible to establish good relations
with the people who greatly differ from them in culture and
tradition.
The Georgian brigade met the local sheikhs as soon as they
had arrived to the province. The held a conference on the base
and stressed that the only mission of the Georgian soldiers is
peacekeeping.
The working day, devoted to controlling the province, begins
at 6 in the morning. The daily course of action is developed,
by the staff, the previous day. At the end of the day, the bri-
gade leadership gathers again and discusses the work done
during the day.
Every morning Father Gabriel blesses the soldiers. Their move-
ment, as well as the coordination and control of the planning
process, was closely monitored. The Georgian delegation attend-
ed the movement of the formation. They observed this process
from the air. The Georgians reached the checkpoint with the sup-
port of American pilots. The guests were given half an hour to
get acquainted with the situation. During that time, the Georgian
journalists had a chance to talk with the soldiers.
Corporal Gocha Gigolashvili:` We are ready for anything. We
support each other and always think about Georgia. This gives
us the strength to complete our mission successfully.`
Sergeant Zaza Chilashvili: `It is not so difficult to be here.
We knew what we had to do when we arrived. We always had
Cek-pointze
On Check-Point
yovel diliT samxedroebs gzas ulocavs mama gabri­
eli. maT gadaadgilebas, rogorc mTlianad briga­
dis kontrolsa da koordinaciis dagegmvas, Stabis
Senobidan specialurad damontaJebuli ekranebis
saSualebiT akvirdebian. eraySi samxedro kolonis
gadaadgilebas qarTuli delegaciac daeswro. isini
am process haeridan akvirdebodnen. sakontrolo
gamSveb punqtTan stumrebi amerikeli mfrinavebis
daxmarebiT mividnen. situaciis gasacnobad stum­
rebs naxevari saaTi misces. am mokle droSi Jurnal­
istebs qarTvel samxedroebTan gasaubrebis saSu­
aleba miecaT.
goCa gigolaSvili, kaprali: `Cven yvelafrisTvis
mzad varT. erTmaneTis gverdSi dgoma, megobrebi,
saqarTveloze fiqri gvaZlebinebs aq da stimuls
gvaZlevs, rom samSoblodan moSorebiT Cveni misia
pirnaTlad SevasruloT~.
zaza CilaSvili, serJanti: `aq yofna arc ise rTulia.
rom movdiodiT, ukve vicodiT ra unda gvekeTebina.
Cveni funqcia-movaleobebi srulad gvqonda gaT­
viTcnobierebuli. marTali giTxraT bevrad rTul
da cud situacias velodiT biWebi. erTaderTi es
aris, rom ojaxs xar mowyvetili.
mosaxleobasTan Sexeba ZiriTadad ar gvaqvs, magram
avadmyofebi Tu moyavT, vexmarebiT eqimebs. gzaSi
rom gadavaadgildebiT, bavSvebi gvesalmebian da
xels gviqneven xolme. sakmaod kargi ganwyoba aqvT
qarTvelebis mimarT.
pirvel rigSi, TviTon saqarTvelo gvenatreba, mere
TavisTavad ojaxi, megobrebi da yvela axlobeli ada­
miani, vinc ki iq davtoveT.~
daZabuli reJimis miuxedavad, gzad mimaval ja­ri­
skacebs mosaxleobis wyliT da tkbileuliT mo­
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maragebac ar aviwydebaT. pasuxad qarTul `gaumar­
jos~ da `madloba~-s iReben.
qarTul saubars bazis samzareuloSic moismen.
Cvens samxedroebs ucxoeli mzareulebi sxva qveynis
jariskacebisgan advilad arCeven da menius gatexili
qarTuliT acnoben. sami aTas kacian samzareuloSi
ori qarTveli mzareuli koba da aleko muSaobs.
qarTuli delegaciis CasvlisTvis maT sagangebod
moamzades Caqafuli da CixirTma. qarTvelebma saku­
Tari mravalferovani meniuTi iqaurebic moxibles.
gadawyda, rom Svidi erovnebis ucxo qveynis samx­
edro mosamsaxure kviraSi orjer qarTul kerZebs
daagemovnebs.
kerZi Casul stumrebs baRdadSic eloda. erayis
yofili mmarTvelis, sadam huseinis meoTxe colis
sasaxlis teritoriaze 150 qarTveli samxedro mosam­
saxure imyofeba. maT movaleobaSi `gaero~-s misiis
usafrTxoebis uzrunvelyofa Sedis. delegacias
maspinZloba qarTvelma mSvidobismyofelma qalebma
gauwies, stumrebs xinkliT gaumaspinZldnen da sam­
SobloSi mokiTxvebi daabares.
saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministros warmomadgen­
lebi baRdadSi koaliciuri jarebis Stabsac ewvivnen,
sadac koaliciuri jarebis sardals, general petra­
euss Sexvdnen. gaimarTa Sexvedra koaliciuri jar­
ebis korpusis Stabis ufrosTan, general anderson­
Tanac. saubris ZiriTadi Tema vasitis provinciis
kontroli da problemebis wamoWris SemTxvevaSi, er­
Toblivi samoqmedo gegmebis dasaxva iyo. amerikelma
samxedroebma qarTvel kolegebs saerTaSoriso mSvi­
dobis ganmtkicebis sakiTxSi Setanili wvlilisaTvis
madloba gadauxades.
baTu quTelia: `generlebma aRniSnes, rom muSaobiTa
da profesionalizmiT kmayofilni arian. Sexvedrebze
gamoiTqva survili, rom TanamSromloba momavalSic
gagrZeldes. aseve, ganvixileT rotaciisa da aR­
Wurvilobis sakiTxebi. rac mTavaria, didi madloba
gadagvixades, rom qarTvelebs didi wvlili Segvaqvs
saerTaSoriso mSvidobis ganmtkicebis sakiTxSi.~
erayis dedaqalaqidan qarTuli delegacia isev vasi­
tis provinciaSi dabrunda. saqarTvelos Tavdacvis
ministris pirvelma moadgilem da SeiaraRebuli Za­
lebis gaerTianebuli Stabis ufrosma daaTvalieres
baza da samxedro mosamsaxureTa sacxovrebel pi­
robebs gaecnen. qarTul brigadaSi mamakacebTan er­
Tad 60-mde qali msaxurobs, maT Soris samxedro pol­
icielebic arian. maka, Tiko da xaTuna erT oTaxSi
cxovroben. bazis teritoriis da sasadilos gakon­
trolebis, aseve StabSi muSaobis Semdeg cota dro
garTobisTvisac rCebaT. isini ucxo qveynis samx­
edroebTan erTad gantvirTvas saRamoobiT spor­
tul moedanze axerxeben. samSobloze da axloble­
bze saubari cremlebiT mTavrdeba, amitom cdiloben
ufro metad dakisrebul misiaze da samuSaos war­
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a sound understanding of our functions and our mission. To
tell you the truth, we expected the situation to be much worse.
The only difficulty is that we are separated of our families.
Generally we do not have any contact with the local popula-
tion, but sometimes we help them. For example, if anybody
is ill and needs a doctor. The children often recognize us and
wave to us. They have quite good disposition towards Geor-
gians.
First of all we miss our country, then of course our families,
friends and everybody whom we left in Georgia.`
You can hear Georgian speech in the dining hall of the base
as well. The foreign cooks easily distinguish Georgian military
men from the others and tell them about the menu with their
poor Georgian. In the kitchen, supporting 3000 soldiers, work
two Georgian cooks, Koba and Aleko. They prepared particu-
lar dishes, chakapuli and chikkhirtma for the Georgian del-
egation. Everybody was fascinated by the delicious Georgian
food. It was agreed that Georgian dishes will be included in
the menu two days a week.
A Georgian dish was waiting for the Georgian guests in Bagh-
dad as well. At the palace belonging to the 4th wife of Sadd-
am Hussein, 150 Georgian soldiers are stationed. They have
responsibility for providing security to the UN mission. The
Georgian delegation was welcomed by the Georgian women
who serve there. They made a special dish, khinkali, for them
and sent home regards to their relatives.
The representatives of the Georgian Ministry of Defence vis-
ited the Headquarters of the Multi-National Forces, where
they met the Commander, General Petraeus. The meeting
was held also with the MNF-I Chief of Staff, General Ander-
son. The main topic of conversation was control of the prov-
ince of Wasit and development of joint courses of action in
preparation for response to some problematic situations. The
American soldiers thanked their Georgian colleagues for the
great deal of work they have performed towards international
peacekeeping.
Batu Kutelia: ` The American generals mentioned that they
are very content with the level of proficiency of the Georgian
Military Forces. They expressed their wish to continue collab-
orating with Georgia, in spite of issues with unit rotations and
supplying of equipment. Most important for us is that we were
thanked for our tribute to the international peacekeeping`
The Georgian delegation returned to Wasit from Baghdad.
The first Deputy Minister of Defence and the Chief of the
Joint Staff looked around the base more thoroughly and ob-
served the living conditions there. Alongside the men, 60
Georgian women are serving at the base. Military policewom-
en are among them. Maka, Tiko and Khatuna share one room.
After a day of controlling the territory surrounding the base
and the canteen is done they have some free time to rest. They
take good relief on the sports fields, playing games with the
soldiers of other nationalities. Conversations about home and
family always end in tears. That is why they try to think more
about the mission. They calm themselves down by looking at
photos of their dear people and communicating with them
over the internet.
It has been several years already that Giorgi Darguashvili has
been serving in the US Army. Fortunately he met Georgian
soldiers here, at the `Delta` base. He could not have even
dreamt about it earlier. ` Having finished college, I decided
to go into the Army. Now I feel very proud that Georgia’s
military forces are manned with great professionals. You can
live anywhere and be happy but you always miss your country.
I want to send my best regards to Georgia with you
All the personnel of the brigade also give their regards to their
native country and to their dear people. Their brave and de-
termined look could not conceal the fact that they are missing
their home. They saw the guests off with great wishes and
hopes and promised to return peacefully. They are motivated
to fulfill the mission just like the Mamelukes who were known
as the bravest warriors and completed their mission here, in
Iraq, during 82 years of governance.
mama gabrieli samSvidoboebs locavs
Father Gabriel Blesses the Georgian Peacekeepers
matebiT Sesrulebaze ifiqron. nostalgias oTaxSi
gamofenili fotoebiT da internetiT ivseben.
giorgi darguaSvili ramdenime welia amerikis jarSi
msaxurobs da bednieri SemTxvevis wyalobiT, `delta~
bazaze, qarTvelebTan erTad moxvda. rogorc Tavad
ambobs, aqamde verc ki warmoidgenda, rom eraySi Tana­
memamuleebs Sexvdeboda: `kolejis dasrulebis Sem­
deg jarSi wasvla gadavwyvite. CemTvis aq qarTvelebis
naxva marTla siurprizi iyo. meamayeba, rom qarTuli
kontingenti profesionalebiTaa dakompleqtebuli,
rac jaris ganviTarebis umTavresi pirobaa.
sadac ar unda waxvide da ramdeni welic ar unda icx­
ovro, Seni samSoblo mainc gansakuTrebulad gena­
treba. minda Cems saqarTvelosTan mokiTxva dagabar­
oT~.
saqarTveloSi mokiTxva Tavdacvis saministros del­
egacias brigadis piradma Semadgenlobamac daaba­
ra. gacilebis ceremoniaze maT mxedrul da mkacr
gamoxedvaSi samSoblos monatrebuli adamianebis
sevda igrZnoboda. qarTvelma samxedroebma stum­
rebi imedianad gaaciles da saqarTveloSi mSvido­
biT dabrunebis piroba misces. maT kargad ician, rom
dawyebuli saqme bolomde unda miiyvanon, rogorc
saukuneebis win es qarTvelma mamluqebma swored er­
ayis miwaze, 82 wliani mmarTvelobis ganmavlobaSi,
moaxerxes.
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 viyeneb SesaZleblobas da qarTvel xalxs vulocav
damdeg 2008 wels. vusurveb keTildReobasa da
did warmatebebs demokratizaciis, nato-sa da
evrokavSirSi integraciis gzaze. darwmunebuli var,
rom Tqven am gzaze yvela siZnelesa da
winaaRmdegobas gadalaxavT.

mario marinovi
bulgareTis misiis xelmZRvanlis
moadgile saqarTveloSi

I take the opportunity to congratulate all Georgian people on the

upcoming New Year’s holidays and to wish in 2008 much and greater
success on the road to democratization, integration into NATO and
European Union and increasing prosperity of all Georgians. I am
confident that you will overcome all the difficulties on the way you
are following.

Happy New Year!

Mario Marinov
Deputy Head of Bulgarian Mission

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minda saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis pirad
Semadgenlobas suliTa da guliT didi warmatebebi
vusurvo erovnuli da saerTaSoriso valdebulebebis
SesrulebaSi, agreTve evro-atlantikur ojaxSi
integraciis gzaze. qarTul jars maRali samxedro
SesaZleblobebis SenarCunebas, xolo maT ojaxebs
- janmrTelobas, bednierebasa da yovelive
saukeTesos vusurveb. dae, mSvidad da damajereblad
gagegrZelebinoT aRebuli kursi da pirnaTlad
SegesrulebinoT Tqveni samxedro valdebulebebi, qveynis
SigniT Tu mis farglebs gareT.

gilocavT axal wels!

venceslav tonevi
bulgareTis samxedro ataSe
polkovniki

I wish most cordially to the whole personnel of the

Georgian Armed Forces lots of success in implementing of the na-
tional and international commitments on the road towards
Euro-Atlantic integration and maintaining of high military
capability. I wish to you and your families health, happiness and well
being, to calmly and confidently follow your way. To all of you, no
matter where you are fulfilling your military duties.

Happy New Year!

col Ventseslav Tonev
Defence Attaché of Bulgaria
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 `afxazeTi oqrosferia,
persona/Profile
mze iq sxvagvarad Cadis~
nana inwkirveli
Nana Intskirveli
lela Ciqovani, maiori, saqarTvelos Tav­
dacvis samxedro ataSe litvis, latviis, es­
toneTisa da poloneTis respublikebSi...
daibada qalaq soxumSi. daamTavra kievis
samedicino instituti, moskovis ekono­
mikis instituti, saqarTvelos Tavdacvis
saministros erovnuli akademia. es biog­
rafiuli monacemebi namdvilad ver qmnis
im qalbatonis srul portrets, romelmac
sirTuleebis miuxedavad SeZlo warmate­
buli oficris karieris Seqmna. maior Ciqo­
vanTan Sexvedra maSin Sedga, roca is axal
Tanamdebobaze sul ramdenime dRis daniS­
nuli iyo da baltiispireTSi gasamgzavre­
blad emzadeboda...
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Lela Chikovani, Major, Defence Attaché of
Georgia to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Po-
land…
Lela was born in Sukhumi, graduated from
Kiev Medical Institute, Moscow Economic In-
stitute, and the National Defence Academy
of Georgia. This biographical data does not
make up a full portrait of a lady who, de-
spite all the difficulties she experienced,
still managed to carve out a successful ca-
reer as an officer. We arranged an interview
with Major Chikovani when she had been ap-
pointed to a new position a few days earlier
and she was making preparations for depar-
ture to the Baltic States…
“Abkhazia is Golden,
Sunset is Unusual there”

It did not take her long to accept our proposal. She agreed, as
she never runs away from difficulties. She is always interested
to know where the boundaries to her abilities lie. Lela knows
that a great mission was borne on her. She is very confident
and sure that she will be a success.
Lela knows the Baltic States very well. She remembers well how
Georgia started partnership relationship with these countries.
Major Chikovani was working at the International Relations
Department and, as a liaison officer; she was responsible for
establishment of cooperation with the future partners. She is
very proud that this relationship appeared to be very success-
ful. Today, the Baltic States and Poland are reliable partners of
Georgia and Lela thinks that she had made her own contribu-
tion to development of this partnership. Now she is thinking
of an exact plan how to cover Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and
Poland equally.
She feels herself most comfortable in the character of a strong
woman. She has been working at the Ministry of Defence of
Georgia for 9 years, though she says her position was not at all
a dream of her childhood.
SemoTavazebaze didxans ar ufiqria. daTanxmda,
radgan sirTuleebs arasodes gaurbis, yovelTvis
ainteresebs sad gadis misi SesaZleblobis zRvari.
icis, rom uzarmazari misia daekisra, sakmaod Tav-
dajerebulia. darwmunebulia saqmes Tavs gaarT-
mevs.
baltiispireTis qveynebs kargad icnobs, axs-
ovs rogor daiwyo saqarTvelom am qveynebTan
partnioruli urTierToba. lela Ciqovani maSin
saerTaSoriso urTierTobebis departamentSi
muSaobda da rogorc mekavSire oficers uSua-
lod evaleboda momaval partniorebTan Tanam-
Sromlobis sakiTxebze muSaoba. eamayeba, rom es
urTierToba warmatebuli gamodga. dRes balti-
ispireTis qveynebi saqarTvelosaTvis erT-erTi
saimedo partnioria da fiqrobs, rom am saqmeSi
misi mokrZalebuli wvlilic aris. axla zust

She spent her childhood in Sukhumi… She remembers the road

from her home to school #16. She remembers each lane, each
path, her father’s house, large and warmed by the sun. She
remembers amazing people, warm relations… Today, this beau-
tiful past is Lela’s great pain.

“I saw Abkhazia in 1993 for the last time. This was the very year
when my son, Tornike was born. I have not passed “the road to
the Calvary”, as when Sukhumi was bombed for the first time
my parents made me leave town with a newborn baby.

This issue is so painful for us that we never talk about this

aloud, but we bear this pain in ourselves all the times. This pain
and the feeling that we have lost Abkhazia due to the fact that
our country was not strong enough and was lacking for defence
capabilities made me reconsider my previous profession, medi-
cal doctor. Finally I’m here where I can do more for strength-
ening and reunification of my country.” Lela finds it difficult
to continue on this subject, but I still can’t refrain from asking

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samoqmedo gegmaze fiqrobs, romelic Tanabrad
moicavs litvas, latvias, estoneTsa da polo-
neTs.

ambobs, rom Zlieri qalis ampluaSi Tavs komfor-

tulad grZnobs. 9 welia saqarTvelos Tavdacvis
saministroSi muSaobs, Tumca es misi bavSvobis
ocneba ar yofila.

bavSvoba soxumSi gaatara... axlac zustad axs-

ovs gza saxlidan me-16 skolamde, axsovs yvela
biliki, Sesaxvevi; mamiseuli, didi mziT gamTbari
saxli. agondeba saocari adamianebi, Tbili urT-
ierTobebi... es lamazi warsuli, dRes lelasTvis
yvelaze didi tkivilia.

`afxazeTi bolos 1993 wels vnaxe. swored im wels

daibada Tornike. golgoTas gza me ar gamivlia, rad-
gan pirvelive dabombvisTanave ZuZumwovar bavS-
vTan erTad damatovebines mSoblebma soxumi. xom
gagigiaT, samSoblo miwis naWeria, sxva arcaraica,
samSoblo me var. yvelaferi mSobliuri iq damrCa.

es Tema imdenad mtkivneulia, rom saxlSi aras-

dros vsaubrobT amaze xmamaRla, magram am tki-
viliT vcxovrobT. am tkivilma da gancdam rom,
afxazeTi davkargeT imis gamo, rom qveyana ar another question: - I have never seen Abkhazia, tell me what it
iyo brZolisunariani da Zlieri, eqimobaze xeli looks like…
amaRebina da iq mimiyvana, saidanac yvelaze meti
SemiZlia gavakeTo qveynis siZlierisa da misi Abkhazia has the flavor of eucalyptus and saline, Abkhazia is
gaerTianebisaTvis.~ am Temaze saubris gagrZele- golden, even the sunset is very unusual there…
ba marTlac uWirs, magram Tavs ver vikaveb da
vekiTxebi: Has Tornike the same feelings?

He has never lived in Abkhazia, he has not experienced what

me ar minaxavs afxazeTi, miTxari rogoria igi.
afxazeTs evkaliptisa da simlaSis gemo aqvs, afx-
azeTi oqrosferia, iq mze sul sxvagvarad Cadis...
Tornikes Tu aqvs aseTi gancda?
mas ar ucxovria afxazeTSi, ar ganucdia is, rac me
ganvicade da Seviyvare, amitom bunebrivia mas ar
SeiZleba Cemnairad stkiodes, magram icis, rom iq
misi samSoblos nawilia.
xom ar fiqrob, rom afxazeTis sakiTxi swored
Cveni, anu im Taobis gadasawyvetia visac axsovs
is da stkiva, rom droTa ganmavlobaSi momavali
Taoba dakargavs imis gancdas, rom iq misi sam-
Sobloa, saqarTvelos ganuyofeli nawili.
I felt and what I loved…If he does not feel the same it is very
natural. He might not feel the pain I feel, but he knows that
there, in Abkhazia is part of his motherland.
Don’t you think that the problem of Abkhazia is to be solved by
the generation that still remembers and suffers this pain, that
as time goes by the future generation will lose the feeling that it
is their motherland and that Abkhazia is an inseparable part of
Georgia?
To return the lost territories will not be easy at all. To restore
the broken bridge between the people will also be difficult in
such a short period of time. To recover from this tragedy and
re-establish mutual respect and love needs careful analysis and
approach. 15 years are nothing for history. Resolution of the
problem of Abkhazia is not easy, but I believe, and I’m sure,
that this time is near. Peaceful resolution of the conflicts has
no alternative.

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She’s optimist – another feature for the portrait. If allowed to
start all over again she would make some changes to her private
life. What is unforgivable for her is lying.
Sometimes I also say white lies, like everyone else. I mean other
kind of lies. I can not betray and deceive anyone. If I forgive this
to myself or others it means that I no longer respect myself. I
always ask this of my son - never tell lies!
For business women, family always stands in second place. Do
you think that you can’t devote enough attention to your son and
to your family due to the career?
Really I don’t have time to think about this. But I know for sure
that all my life is devoted to my son and my work. My mother
helps me with bringing up my son very much. Tornike is a good
pupil and I am very happy. We are friends and sometimes I
ask for advice. He is coming with me to the Baltics and he will
continue his education there. I will do my best to rear him as a
good Georgian.
How do you imagine your future diplomatic career?
I want to introduce Georgia to those people with whom I am
going to cooperate in the future; not just from the point of view
of the defence sphere but also to make them better informed
about the culture and traditions of my country. I want them
to know and love my country. I want to make them sure that
Georgia is a reliable partner. I want to leave my signature in
these friendly countries.
dakarguli teritoriis dabruneba advili saqme
namdvilad ar aris. or xalxs Sua Catexili xidi
am cota drois ganmavlobaSi Zneli aRsadgenia.
am tragediis ganelebas, urTierTpativiscemi-
sa da siyvarulis dabrunebas movlenebis swori
gaanalizeba da midgoma sWirdeba. 15 weli isto-
riisTvis araferia, afxazeTis problema rTulad
mosagvarebelia, magram mjera da darwmunebuli
var, rom es dro male dadgeba. konfliqtis mSvi-
dobian mogvarebas alternativa ara aqvs.
optimistia. esec kidev erTi Strixi misi portre-
tisaTvis. Tavidan rom iwyebdes, pirad cxovrebaSi
Sesworebebs aucileblad Seitanda, rasac veravis
patiobs tyuilia:
`uwyinari tyuili yvelas da maT Soris mec miTq-
vams. sxva tyuili maqvs mxedvelobaSi. kacs dasaR-
upad ver gavwirav da gavimeteb. Tu es sakuTar Tavs
an vinmes mivuteve e.i. sakuTari Tavis pativisce-
ma Sevwyvite. Cems Svils niadag amas veCiCinebi _
oRond tyuili ara!~
saqmiani qalebisaTvis ojaxi meore adgilze
dgas. xom ar fiqrob, rom Seni karieris gamo
Svils, ojaxs raRac daakeli?
amaze safiqralad dro marTla ar mrCeba, magram
zustad vici, mTeli Cemi cxovreba samsaxurs da
Cems Svils xmardeba. Svilis aRzrdaSi dedaCemi
mexmareba. Tornike –kargad swavlobs da mixaria.
Cven vmegobrobT, rCevebsac ki vekiTxebi. CemTan
erTad modis, swavlas baltiispireTSi gaagrZe-
lebs. yvelafers gavakeTeb, rom kargi qarTveli
gaizardos.…
rogor warmogidgenia Seni saqmianoba diploma-
tiur samsaxurSi?
im xalxs, visTanac urTierToba meqneba saqarT-
velo unda davanaxo ara mxolod Tavdacvis kuTx-
iT, aramed misi tradiciiTa da kulturiT. minda
yvelas gavacno da Sevayvaro Cemi qveyana. daumt-
kico yvelas, rom saqarTvelo Rirseuli part-
nioria. minda Cemi xelwera davtovo Cvens megobar
qveyanaSi.
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mogesalmebiT!
CemTvis didi pativia, rom saSualeba maqvs
qarTvel xalxs, saqarTvelos Tavdacvis
saministrosa da saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul
Zalebs mivuloco damdegi axali 2008 weli!
moxaruli var, rom israelsa da saqarTvelos
Soris urTierTobaSi bevri miRweva gvaqvs
yvela sferoSi.
rogorc mogexsenebaT, Cvens qveynebs
Soris, iseve rogorc Cvens xalxebs
Soris, urTierToba yovelTvis samagaliTo
iyo, Tumca bolo wlebSi es urTierToba
gansakuTrebiT dinamikuri gaxda.
It is a great honor for me to have an opportunity to congratu-
imedi maqvs, rom es tendenciebi momaval late the population of Georgia, the Minister of Defence and
wels kidev ufro ganviTardeba. the Georgian Armed Forces and wish them a Happy New Year
2008!
suliTa da guliT mivesalmebi saqarTveloSi
mimdinare aRmSeneblobis procesebs da imedi I am happy for the success in every field of relations between
maqvs, 2008 weli qarTveli xalxisTvis didi Georgia and Israel.
gamarjvebebisa da qveynis gamTlianebis weli
iqneba! As you know, relationship between our countries, as well as
between our populations was always distinguished, and dur-
erTianobas, winsvlasa da did bednierebas ing the past year, this relations became more dynamic.
vusurveb qarTvel xalxsa da saqarTvelos !
I hope this tendency will continue in the future.
mraval axal wels daeswariT! I welcome, heartfelt, the building process in Georgia and I
hope the next year will be the year of victory and unification
for the Georgian population.
misi aRmatebuleba SabTai curi
israelis elCi saqarTveloSi I wish unity, success, and great happiness to the population of
Georgia and to the whole country.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

H. e. Shabtay Tsur
Embassador of Israel to Georgia

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2007 weli saqarTvelosa da niderlandebis
samefos Tavdacvis saministroebisaTvis
sakmaod nayofieri iyo. Cven delegaciebis
mravali gacvliTi viziti gvqonda.
qarTveli oficrebi kursebis gavlis
mizniT niderlandebs ewvivnen. holandiel
eqspertTa jgufis wevrebi, romlebic
Tbiliss yovel Tve stumroben, TavianT
kolegebs safinanso da adamianuri 2007 has been a very busy year for the Ministries of De-
resursebis marTvis departamentebidan fence of Georgia and the Netherlands. We had fruitful
axlos daumegobrdnen. exchanges of delegations and a number of Georgian of-
ficers visited the Netherlands for courses. The team of
saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministrom Dutch experts which visits Tbilisi every month has be-
reformebis ganxorcielebis kuTxiT come close friends with their colleagues in the depart-
STambeWdav progress miaRwia. qarTvel ments of finance and human resource management.
jariskacebs saerTaSoriso samSvidobo
operaciebSi aqtiuri wvlili SeaqvT. The MoD has made impressive progress in the imple-
mentation of defence reforms and has actively contrib-
msurs gamoviyeno SesaZlebloba da uted to international peacekeeping efforts.
Tavdacvis ministrsa da saministros
srul Semadgenlobas vusurvo saukeTeso I would like to take this opportunity to express to the
survilebi da movuloco damdegi axali 2008 Minister of Defence and the entire personnel of the Min-
weli. istry of Defence of Georgia my very best wishes for a
happy and peaceful New Year 2008 !
misi aRmatebuleba ono elderenboSi
niderlandebis samefos elCi saqarTveloSi
H. e. Onno Elderenbosch
Ambassador of the
Kingdom of the Netherlands

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 qar­Tu­li ar­mia re­gion­Si
eqsperti/Expert

an­ga­riS­ga­sa­we­vi Za­la xde­ba

ko­ba lik­li­ka­Ze
Koba Liklikadze

sa­qar­Tve­los ar­mias 17 aras­ru­li wlis is­
to­ria aqvs da ro­gorc yve­la axal­gaz­rda sa­
xel­mwi­fo­Si, Cven­Ta­nac ar­miis mSe­neb­lo­bas
sa­fuZ­vels en­Tu­zias­te­bi da pat­rio­tulad
gan­wyo­bi­li ada­mia­ne­bi uy­rid­nen. mag­ram
SiS­ve­li en­Tu­ziz­mis xar­jze ur­Tu­le­si sa­
xel­mwi­fo struq­tu­ris mSe­neb­lo­ba sa­qar­
Tve­lo­Si dro­Si gai­we­la, xo­lo qro­ni­ku­li
dau­fi­nan­seb­lo­bi­sa da ma­te­ria­lur-teq­ni­
ku­ri sim­wi­ris ga­mo, oTxi wlis win Seia­ra­Re­
bu­li Za­le­bis pi­ra­di Se­mad­gen­lo­ba de­zor­
ga­ni­ze­bu­li da de­mo­ra­li­ze­bu­li gax­ldaT.
Georgian army has an incomplete 17 years
history. As in all young countries, the
army was started by enthusiastic and pa-
triotic people, but with only enthusiasm
building the most difficult state struc-
ture was a time-consuming task. Due to
lack of material and technical recours-
es, the personnel of the Georgian Armed
Forces where disorganized and demoral-
ized.

oTxi wlis win me-11 mo­tom­sro­leli bri­ga­da la­ Four years ago the 11th motorized infantry battalion was
mis er­Ta­der­Ti sam­xed­ro da­na­yo­fi iyo, ro­me­lic the only military unit which, with the help of the American

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GEORGIAN ARMY BECoMES
CONSIDERABLE FORCE IN REGION
“Georgia Train and Equip Program” (GTEP) and finances,
was a little bit like an elite military unit.
But what does the Georgian Army represent after 4 years?
Georgian Armed Forces consist of 4 fully equipped infan-
try brigades that are able to complete the most difficult
military operations.
Building of a modern military base in Senaki was finished
in 2006, where the 2nd Infantry Brigade is deployed. With
this, not only the safety of a strategically located region is
increased, but with modern infrastructure this military unit
increases social security in the Samegrelo region because
on this base more than 100 local civilian residents are em-
ployed.
Simultaneously the Mountain training school was built in
Sachkehre. According to the estimation of western military
ame­ri­ku­li ~wvrTni­sa da aR­Wur­vis~ prog­ra­mi­sa da
ame­ri­ku­li fi­nan­su­ri dax­ma­re­bis wya­lo­biT od­nav
waa­gav­da eli­tur sam­xed­ro na­wils.
ras war­moad­gens ar­mia oTxi wlis ga­da­sa­xe­di­dan?
sa­qar­Tve­los Seia­ra­Re­bu­li Za­le­bis Se­mad­gen­lo­
ba­Si im­yo­fe­ba sru­lad da­kom­pleq­te­bu­li da aR­
Wur­vi­li 4 qvei­Ti bri­ga­da, ro­mel­sac yve­la­ze rTu­
li sam­xed­ro ope­ra­ciis Ses­ru­le­ba Za­luZs;
2006 wels das­rul­da Ta­na­med­ro­ve sam­xed­ro ba­zis
mSe­neb­lo­ba se­nak­Si, sa­dac bi­na dai­do meo­re qveiT­
ma bri­ga­dam, sab­rZo­lo teq­ni­kam da Seia­ra­Re­bam.
amiT ara mxo­lod am stra­te­giu­li re­gio­nis usaf­
rTxoe­bis xa­ris­xi gai­zar­da, ara­med Ta­na­med­ro­ve
in­fras­truq­tu­re­bis mqo­ne sam­xed­ro da­na­yof­ma
sa­meg­re­los mo­sax­leo­bis so­cia­lu­ri dac­vis fun­
qciac Sei­Zi­na. sam­xed­ro ba­zis in­fras­truq­tu­ra­Si
da­saq­mda ram­de­ni­me aseu­li ad­gi­lob­ri­vi sa­mo­qa­la­
qo per­so­na­li.
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pa­ra­le­lu­rad aSen­da sam­To-mom­za­de­bis sko­la experts each component of this school is one of the best in
saC­xe­re­Si, ro­me­lic da­sav­le­li sam­xed­ro eq­sper­ the Europe. Many countries have expressed the desire to
te­bis Sefa­se­biT yve­la kom­po­nen­tiT erT-er­Ti train their mountain troops in Sachkere.
sau­ke­Te­soa ev­ro­pa­Si da sa­dac sam­To qve­da­na­yo­fe­
bis mom­za­de­bis sur­vi­li uk­ve ga­moT­qva mra­val­ma
But the most complicated task was to eliminate the lack of
qve­ya­nam.
junior officer commanders. In recent years, the “staff ex-
mag­ram yve­la­ze rTu­li ofi­cer­Ta da um­cros me­ periment” favored by former authorities in the Ministry of
Taur­Ta de­fi­ci­tis aR­mof­xvra aR­moC­nda. bo­lo Defense stopped the flow of professional officers to units.
wleb­Si Tav­dac­vis sa­mi­nis­tros yo­fi­li xel­mZRva­ There was a need to stop this tendency and to attract new
ne­lo­bis mier gan­xor­cie­le­bul­ma ~sa­kad­ro eq­spe­ personnel to command positions.
ri­men­teb­ma~ pro­fe­sio­nal ofi­cer­Ta de­na­do­ba
gaaZ­lie­ra. sa­Wi­ro iyo am ten­den­ciis Se­Ce­re­ba da In February 2007, President Mikhail Saakashvili signed
axa­li kad­re­bis mo­zid­va sa­me­Tau­ro Ta­nam­de­bo­beb­ An Act on Particular and Special Benefits for Officers of
ze. the Georgian Armed Forces. “Each officer after complet-
ing the contracted military service beginning from today
2007 wlis Te­ber­val­Si pre­zi­den­tma mi­xeil saa­kaS­
vil­ma xe­li moa­we­ra sa­xel­mwi­fo aqts, ro­me­lic mo­
ma­va­li ofic­re­bi­saT­vis spe­cia­lur Se­Ra­va­Teb­sa da
pri­vi­le­giebs iT­va­lis­wi­nebs. ~yve­la ofi­ce­ri, vinc
im­sa­xu­rebs kon­traq­tiT dad­ge­nil va­das, dRe­van­
de­li dRi­dan mii­Rebs ufa­so sac­xov­re­bel farTs,
bi­nas Tbi­lis­sa da ba­Tum­Si. yve­la ofi­ce­ri mii­Rebs
Se­Ra­va­Tian kre­dits, ra­Ta Ta­vad­ve moaw­yos sa­ku­Ta­
ri cxov­re­ba; Tbi­lis­Si aSen­de­ba mTe­li mik­ro­raio­
ni, sa­dac iq­ne­ba sko­le­bi da po­lik­li­ni­ke­bi, ra­Ta
yve­la ada­mia­ni iyos da­cu­li~ _ ga­nac­xa­da se­nak­Si,
sam­xed­ro bri­ga­da­Si yof­nis dros, qvey­nis umaR­
les­ma mTa­var­sar­dal­ma.

sul ma­le Tbi­lis­Tan ax­los daiw­yo mo­ma­val ofi­

cerTa da sam­xed­ro mo­sam­sa­xu­re­TaT­vis pir­ve­li
sac­xov­re­be­li kom­pleq­sis mSe­neb­lo­ba. pa­ra­le­lu­
rad swra­fi tem­pe­biT mim­di­na­reobs ki­dev er­Ti ul­
tra­Ta­na­med­ro­ve sam­xed­ro ba­zis mSe­neb­lo­ba qa­laq
gor­Tan, ro­me­lic 2008 wlis bo­los Cad­ge­ba mwyob­
rSi;

Tav­dac­vis erov­nul aka­de­mia­Si, ro­mel­mac wels

axal ad­gil­ze dai­do bi­na, moq­me­debs oficer­Ta mom­
za­de­bis mok­le­va­dia­ni kur­se­bi, sa­dac sul uf­ro
ma­tu­lobs msur­vel­Ta rao­de­no­ba. pa­ra­le­lu­rad
far­Tov­de­ba sam­xed­ro aka­de­miis sas­wav­lo prog­
ra­me­bis rao­de­no­ba da igi mra­val­sa­fe­xu­reob­ri­vi
mom­za­de­bis Ta­na­med­ro sas­wav­lo ke­rad ya­lib­de­ba.

2007 wlis bo­los sa­qar­Tve­los xe­li­suf­le­bam pri­

va­ti­za­cii­sa da eko­no­mi­kis zrdis Se­de­gad biu­jet­
Si Se­mo­su­li Tan­xe­biT SeZ­lo Tav­dac­vis sfe­ros
biu­je­ti mTlia­ni Si­da pro­duq­tis 8,7 pro­cen­tam­de
gae­zar­da. am Tan­xis di­di na­wi­li sa­qar­Tve­los Seia­
ra­Re­bu­li Za­le­bis sam­xed­ro mo­sam­sa­xu­ree­bis so­
cia­lu­ri da sa­yo­fac­xov­re­bo mdgo­ma­reo­bis, xel­
fa­se­bis amaR­le­ba­ze dai­xar­je­ba; da­nar­Ce­ni Tan­xiT
ki igeg­me­ba Seia­ra­Re­bi­sa da teq­ni­kis mo­der­ni­ze­ba,
senakis samxedro baza
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will get a free living area, an apartment in Tbilisi and Ba-
tumi. Every officer will get favorable long term loans for
arrangement of their own lives. An entire micro region will
be built in Tbilisi, where schools and polyclinics will be al-
located, in order for human beings to be protected,” stated
the Commander-in-Chief at the Senaki Military Base.
The living complex for future officers will be started soon
near Tbilisi. The construction process of one more ultra
modern military base simultaneously is ongoing at a rapid
tempo near the city of Gori, which will start functioning by
the end of 2008.
The National Defence Academy has moved to a new lo-
cation. Short term courses for officer preparation are in
pi­ra­di Se­mad­gen­lo­bis ma­te­ria­lur-teq­ni­kuri uz­
run­vel­yo­fi­sa da so­cia­lu­ri pi­ro­be­bis ki­dev uf­
ro gaum­jo­bese­ba.
sam­xed­ro xar­je­bis aseT­ma mkveT­rma zrdam war­moS­
va Se­kiT­xva, ga­mar­Tle­bu­lia, Tu ara ase­Ti didi
xar­jis ga­we­va sam­xed­ro sfe­ro­ze, ro­de­sac qve­ya­na­
Si bev­ri so­cia­lu­ri prob­le­ma ar­se­bobs?
mag­ram yve­las es­mis, rom xe­li­suf­le­ba iZu­le­bu­
lia wa­vi­des am da­na­xar­jeb­ze, ra­Ta, er­Tis mxriv,
aR­mof­xvras is sam­xed­ro dis­ba­lan­si, ro­mel­Sic
sa­qar­Tve­lo im­yo­fe­ba sam­xre­T kav­ka­siis re­gio­nis
sxva qvey­neb­Tan Se­da­re­biT. xo­lo meo­re mxriv, ukeT
uz­run­vel­yos qvey­nis te­ri­to­riuli Tav­dac­va im
pi­ro­beb­Si, ro­de­sac ma­va­ni kvlav fiq­robs sa­qar­
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Tve­los Se­sus­te­bas sam­xed­ro pro­vo­ka­cie­bis gziT,
ra­sac ad­gi­li hqon­da ze­mo af­xa­zeT­sa da wi­Te­lu­
ban­Si. pa­ra­le­lu­rad sa­qar­Tve­lo val­de­bu­lia Zir­
fes­via­nad gar­daq­mnas mTe­li usaf­rTxoe­bis sis­te­
ma da dauax­lo­vos igi stan­dar­tebs, ra­sac qve­ya­nas
alian­sTan in­di­vi­dua­lu­ri par­tnio­ro­bis sa­moq­me­
do geg­ma aval­de­bu­lebs.
am re­for­me­bis Se­de­gad, qar­Tu­li ar­miis Zi­ri­Ta­
di sa­xeo­be­bi uk­ve aris Tav­se­ba­di Crdi­lo-at­lan­
ti­ku­ri xel­Sek­ru­le­bis or­ga­ni­za­ciis sam­xed­ro
qve­da­na­yo­feb­Tan. amis yve­la­ze Tval­sa­Ci­no ma­ga­
li­Tia, eray­Si, va­si­tis pro­vin­cia­Si myo­fi 2000 ka­
cia­ni qve­da­na­yo­fi. ame­ri­kis sar­dlo­biT moq­me­di
koa­li­ciis ga­daw­yve­ti­le­biT, qar­Tu­li qve­da­na­yo­
fi iv­li­si­dan, xel­mZRva­ne­lobs sam­Svi­do­bo ope­ra­
ciis mar­Tvas era­yis erT-erT udi­des pro­vin­cia­Si,
ro­me­lic ira­nis saz­Rvar­Tan mde­ba­reobs. mrav­lis­
met­yve­lia, rom qar­Tul­ma qve­da­na­yof­ma es­ta­fe­ta
po­lo­ne­Ti­sa­gan Cai­ba­ra, ro­me­lic na­to­-sa da ev­ro­
kav­Si­ris wev­ria.
cxa­dia, sam­xed­ro cxov­re­bis bev­ri mi­mar­Tu­le­ba
ga­nax­le­bas da ko­req­ti­re­bas­ sa­Wi­roebs, kvlav aR­
mo­saf­xvre­lia bev­ri nak­lo­va­ne­ba. maT So­ris, bev­ri
mu­Sao­ba sWir­de­ba sam­xed­ro dis­cip­li­nis gaZ­lie­
re­bas da mem­kvid­reo­biT mi­Re­bu­li ara­sa­wes­de­bo
ur­Tier­To­bis amo­Zir­kvas.
mag­ram faq­tia, rom ar­miis mSe­neb­lo­ba swor gza­ze
dgas.
Seia­ra­Re­bu­li Za­le­bis da­kom­pleq­te­ba pro­fe­siul
rel­seb­ze ga­da­dis; sul uf­ro did sis­wra­fes avi­Ta­
rebs sa­yo­vel­Tao sa­re­zer­vo sam­sa­xu­ri. Se­saZ­loa
vi­daoT, sak­ma­ri­sia, Tu ara 18 dRe srul­yo­fi­li
re­zer­vis­tis mo­sam­za­deb­lad, mag­ram faq­ti is aris,
rom re­zer­vis in­sti­tu­tis amoq­me­de­bas udi­de­si
fsi­qo­lo­giu­ri mniS­vne­lo­ba hqon­da qvey­nis­Tvis,
sa­dac ko­rum­pi­re­bul­ma sa­val­de­bu­lo sam­xed­ro
sam­sa­xur­ma gaa­Ci­na sa­yo­vel­Tao ni­hi­liz­mi da mxed­
ru­li mo­va­leo­bi­sad­mi gauc­xo­ve­ba.
udaoa, rom sa­val­de­bu­lo sa­re­zer­vo sam­sa­xu­ris
amoq­me­de­bam, fa­si daub­ru­na sam­xed­ro sam­sa­xurs
da qvey­nis dac­va Rir­se­bis saq­med iq­ca im aTa­so­biT
axal­gaz­rdi­saT­vis, ro­me­lic daw­ye­biT sam­xed­ro
mom­za­de­bas ga­dis, ra­Ta ar­miis sai­me­do re­zer­vad
iq­ces.
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proceeding while the number volunteers are growing. At
the same time, the number of military academy curriculum
programs is widening and the academy is setting up as a
modern multistage training centre. Privatization and eco-
nomic growth have resulted in a boost of revenues, enabling
the Government of Georgia to increase defense spending
to 8,7% of GDP. The great part of the increase will be used
for improving the social condition of military servicemen
and modernization of armament and techniques will be
done with another part.
Such growth of military expenses raises the issue of wheth-
er it is fair to spend so much money in the military sphere,
because of a lot of social problems in the country. But
everybody understands that the government has to apply
such expenses on the one hand to eliminate the military
unbalance of Georgia, while on the other hand providing
better the territorial defence against military provocations,
as were carried out in Tsitelubani and upper Abkhazia. At
the same time Georgia has to adapt the whole security sys-
tem and approach to the standards of NATO MAP.
As a result of these reforms, the main services of the armed
forces are already interoperable with NATO operations.
The 2000 man unit in Wasit Province, Iraq is a living exam-
ple of this. In accordance with the decision of the coalition
under U.S. command, the Georgian unit has taken control
over one of the biggest province located near the border
of Iran. It is also significant that the Georgian unit has
taken over control from a unit from Poland – a member of
NATO and the EU.
It’s clear that many aspects of the Georgian Armed Forces
need to be corrected and reformed; hard work is needed
to strengthen military discipline. But it’s a fact that the re-
construction of the armed forces is on the right way. The
completion of the armed forces is transferring to profes-
sional standards.
The reserve service is also progressing successfully; one can
argue whether 18 days are enough to prepare a reservist,
but the fact is that the beginning of the reservists training
activity has had huge state importance. It’s doubtful that
starting compulsory reserve service would return the value
of military service. To defend the country has become an
honorable service among the young people who carry out
military preparation to become a reliable reservist of the
Georgian Army.
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 nato-Si integracia
nato da saqarTvelo
NATO and Georgia

qarTveli xalxisa da
mTavrobis arCevania

nini baqraZe
nini baKradZe

saqarTvelos nato-Si gawevrianeba dinami- Georgia’s future NATO membership is a dy-

kuri sakiTxia rogorc qveynis SigniT, aseve
mis farglebs gareT. ramdenad axlos aris
Cveni qveyana nato-s standartebTan da ro-
dis gadava igi aliansTan TanamSromlobis
axal etapze - es sakiTxebi sadiskusio Temas
warmoadgens.
namic topic both at home and abroad. Ex-
actly how close the country has come
to achieving NATO standards and exactly
when it will move to the next stage in the
cooperation with the Alliance are lively
subjects of speculation.

nato-Si integraciis procesi rTulia da amave
dros Zalian saintereso.
aliansTan TanamSromlobis periodSi saqarTvelom
mniSvnelovani transformacia ganicada - arSemdgari
The path to NATO has proven to be both complicated and
interesting. Georgia has undergone a dramatic transforma-
tion from a failed state to a young democracy during the
cooperation with the Alliance. Georgian citizens consider
NATO not only as the Military Alliance but also as the orga-

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Membership in NATO is the
choice and destiny of Georgian
people and the government
nization relating to democratic values and principles. Geor-
gian citizens understand what the Alliance is, how they will
benefit from NATO integration, and what kind of obliga-
tions are to be undertaken by them.
To Georgia’s great benefit, its aspiration for NATO mem-
bership has ensured the performance of large-scale reforms
in the country. “Georgia has transformed from a Security
Consumer to a Security Provider,” believes NATO Secre-
tary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
“Becoming a full fledged member of NATO is a key priority
of foreign and security policy of Georgia. We are proceed-
ing irreversibly with transformation towards becoming a
stronger partner and eventually a stronger ally. Georgia is
willing and has the potential to contribute to global secu-
rity. Georgia’s Defence Policy highlights its commitment to
world peace and stabilization process based on democratic
values that match NATO’s missions and goals. We have
overcome overwhelming challenges and are ready to take
on and efficiently fulfill new obligations which will earn
membership in the NATO community nations. “Member-
ship in NATO is the choice and destiny of Georgian people
and the government,” declares David Kezerashvili, Defence
Minister of Georgia.
Obviously, Georgian achievements are not only connected
to the ambitions of NATO membership: unambiguously,
NATO plays a positive and significant role in the transfor-
mation process in the country.
NATO interoperability, which is much more connected to
reform process in the defence sphere, represents one of the
priorities of the foreign and security policy of Georgia.
saxelmwifodan axalgazrda demokratiul qveynad
Camoyalibda. qarTvelebisTvis nato ara mxolod samx­
edro alianss warmoadgens. es organizacia yovelTvis
demokratiul faseulobebTan da principebTan aris
dakavSirebuli. saqarTvelos moqalaqeebi aTviTcno­
biereben Tu ras warmoadgens aliansi, ra sargeblobas
moutans organizaciaSi gawevrianeba qveyanas da ra
valdebulebebis Sesruleba mogviwevs am kuTxiT.
saqarTvelos nato-Si gawevrianebis swrafvam far­
TomasStabiani reformebis ganxorcielebas Seu­
wyo xeli, ramac qveyanas didi sargebeli moutana.
`saqarTvelo usafrTxoebis momxmarebeli qveyni­
dan usafrTxoebis mwarmoeblad gadaiqca~ – aseT
Sefasebas akeTebs nato-s generaluri mdivani iap
de hop sxeferi.
`nato-s sruluflebiani wevroba saqarTvelos sa­
gareo da usafrTxoebis politikis ZiriTadi prior­
itetia. Cven seriozul transformacias ganvicdiT
imisaTvis, rom ufro Zlieri partniori da mokavSire
gavxdeT aliansisTvis. saqarTvelos didi survili
da potenciali gaaCnia imisTvis, rom Tavisi wvlili
Seitanos globalur usafrTxoebaSi.
saqarTvelos Tavdacvis seqtoris politika ori­
entirebulia xeli Seuwyos msoflioSi mSvidobisa
da stabilizaciis procesis ganmtkicebas, romelic
nato-s demokratiul Rirebulebebzea dafuZnebu­
li. Cven gadavlaxeT seriozuli winaaRmdegobebi
da mzad varT SevasruloT axali valdebulebebi.
nato-Si integracia qarTveli xalxisa da mTavro­
bis arCevania~ – acxadebs saqarTvelos Tavdacvis
ministri daviT kezeraSvili.
ra Tqma unda, saqarTvelos miRwevebi marto alians­
Si gawevrianebis ambiciasTan ar aris dakavSire­
buli, magram erTi ram udavoa, rom nato qveynis
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transformaciis procesSi mniSvnelovnad dade­biT
rols asrulebs.

nato-sTan urTierTTavsebadoba, rac umTavresad

Tavdacvis sferos reformasTan aris dakavSire­
buli, qveynis sagareo da usafrTxoebis politikis
erT-erT prioritets warmoadgens.

`dResdReobiT saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministros

sapatio misia akisria – miaRwios nato-sTan urT­
ierTTavsebadobas, rac myari demokratiis Camoya­
libebas, Tavdacvisunarianobis gaZlierebas, Cveni
moqalaqeebisa da demokratiuli Rirebulebebis
dacvas, saqarTvelos stabilurobisa da usafrTxoe­
bis mandatis gafarToebas, samxedro sferoze samo­
qalaqo kontrolis gaZlierebasa da saerTaSoriso
masStabiT namdvil demokratiul qveynad Camoyal­
ibebas gulisxmobs~ – miaCnia Tavdacvis ministris “Today, the Georgian Ministry of Defence has undertaken
pirvel moadgiles baTu quTelias. an honourable mission to achieve NATO interoperability,
which means establishing a sustainable democracy, en-
saqarTvelom nato-Si integraciis gzaze mniS­ hancing defence capabilities, protecting our citizens and
vnelovani cvlilebebi da progresi ganicada. 1994 democratic values, expanding Georgia’s mandate for of-
wlidan qveyana aqtiurad Caeba nato-s `partnioro­
fering stability and security, solidifying civilian control
ba mSvidobisaTvis~ programaSi (PfP). 2002 wels
nato-s praRis samitze, saqarTvelom kidev erTxel
over the military and being a real democratic state in the
gamoxata Tavisi survili aliansTan urTierTobis international arena,” declares Deputy Defence Minister
axal etapze gadasuliyo da faqtiurad, pirveli Batu Kutelia.
qveyana gaxda, romelsac individualuri part­
niorobis samoqmedo gegma (IPAP) mieniWa. aRniSnuli Georgia has undergone significant changes and progress on
gegma saqarTvelom warmatebiT ganaxorciela, rac the way to NATO integration. Since 1994, Georgia has been
swored aliansTan TanamSromlobis axal etapze ga­ actively involved in NATO’s Partnership for Peace Program
dasvlis mTavari mizezi gaxda. (PfP).

2006 wels saqarTvelosa da nato-s Soris `gawevr­
ianebis sakiTxebze intensiuri dialogi~ daiwyo,
rac mWidro urTierTTanamSromlobas gulisxmobs
qveyanasa da alianss Soris.
`Tavad dasaxeleba aRniSnuli dialogisa gvaZlevs
imis mtkice garantias, rom saqarTvelos nato-Si
integracia Seuqcevadi procesia. rogorc mogex­
senebaT, Cven mtkiced miviwevdiT am miznis misaRw­
evad. saqarTvelos xelisuflebis mier araerTxel
gacxadda, rom saqarTvelos nato-Si gawevrianeba
qveynis sagareo politikuri kursis prioritetia.
dResdReobiT Cven umniSvnelovanesi nabiji gad­
avdgiT am mimarTulebiT da saqarTvelo daadga im
Seuqcevad process, rasac saqarTvelos nato-Si
integracia hqvia~.
mniSvnelovani nabijebi gadaidga qarTuli jaris
mSeneblobis procesSi. qarTveli samxedroebi
sazogadoebis mniSvnelovani da sapativcemulo
nawili gaxdnen.
At the 2002 NATO Summit in Prague, Georgia reasserted
its will to launch a new program with the Alliance and even-
tually became the first country to have obtained the Indi-
vidual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) status. Georgia had
successfully implemented the IPAP and this was the reason
of moving to another step in cooperation with the Alliance.
In 2006, Georgia and NATO started their “Intensified Dia-
logue on membership issues,” which implies an intensive
cooperation between the country and NATO.
“‘Intensified Dialogue’ creates a strong guarantee that Geor-
gia’s integration into NATO is an irreversible process. As
you are aware, we are firmly aspiring to achieve this goal.
The Georgian government has frequently stated that NATO
membership is the priority of the foreign policy direction,
and consequently, Georgia has been undertaking the irre-
versible process of NATO Integration,” stated Batu Kutelia,
First Deputy Defence Minister.

`saqarTvelos usafrTxoebis politikaSi nato-sTan Significant steps have been taken in the building process
daaxloebis process arsebiTi adgili ukavia, rac of the Georgian Armed Forces. The Georgian military has
saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis gaZlierebasa da become an essential and honourable part of the Georgian
globalur usafrTxoebaSi Tavisi wvlilis SetanaSi society.

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“NATO has an essential role in Georgia’s security policy,
which drives the Georgian Armed Forces to transform into
NATO Compatible Forces with western values, capable of
playing a significant role in creating global security in the
international arena. In the past two years, it has become a
matter of pride and dignity for our citizens to serve in the
Georgian Armed Forces. That is a substantial achievement
that justifies our choice to move towards NATO Integra-
tion of our military forces,” declares Colonel Zaza Goga-
va, Chief of the Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces.
Georgia’s role is considerably increased in the international
arena. The country actively participates in international
peacekeeping operations. The Georgian military enjoys the
best reputation on the international arena.
“Georgia efficiently implements reforms and strengthens
its armed forces in order to ensure its security and become
more capable of contributing to regional and global secu-
rity,” states David Kezerashvili, Defence Minister of Geor-
gia. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for Coalition
and Multinational Operations Debra L. Cagan positively
evaluates reforms that the Georgian Army is going through.
“Development of Georgian Armed Forces is on the right
track. The speed with which Georgians are implementing
the changes in the Defence Sphere is steady. It is a model
for other countries to follow. Georgian Armed Forces have
been able to accomplish a vast change over the past year,
which is a precondition for building of a strong army.”
It is noteworthy that Georgia has taken the responsibility to
participate actively in the neutralization of the threats pos-
ing to the world. One thing is clear: the building process of
the Georgian army is being implemented successfully.
natos generaluri mdivani da saqarTvelos prezidenti siRnaRSi
NATO Secretary General and President of Georgia in Sighnaghi
exmareba. bolo ori wlis ganmavlobaSi, saqarTvelos
SeiaraRebul ZalebSi samsaxuri Cveni moqalaqeebi­
sTvis saamayo da Rirseuli gaxda. es aris mniSvnelo­
vani miRweva, rac nato-Si integraciis gzaze Cvens
arCevans amarTlebs` - acxadebs saqarTvelos Sei­
araRebuli Zalebis gaerTianebuli Stabis ufrosi,
polkovniki zaza gogava. saqarTvelos roli saer­
TaSoriso arenaze sagrZnoblad gaizarda. qveyana
saerTaSoriso samSvidobo operaciebSi aqtiurad
aris CarTuli. qarTveli samxedroebi saukeTeso
reputaciiT sargebloben saerTaSoriso asparezze.
`saqarTvelo uSecdomod axorcielebs reformebs da
aZlierebs SeiaraRebul Zalebs, raTa uzrunvelyos
sakuTari usafrTxoeba da aseve Tavisi wvlili Seita­
nos globalur usafrTxoebaSi~ – acxadebs saqarT­
velos Tavdacvis ministri daviT kezeraSvili.
amerikis Tavdacvis ministris TanaSemwe koalici­
uri da mravalerovnuli operaciebis sakiTxebSi
debra l. qeigani saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul ZalebSi
mimdinare reformebs dadebiTad afasebs. `saqarT­
velos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis ganviTareba swori
gziT mimdinareobs. Tavdacvis sferoSi ganxor­
cielebuli reformebi myaria. es sxva qveynebisTvis
samagaliTo unda gaxdes. saqarTvelos SeiaraRe­
bulma Zalebma uzarmazari cvlilebebis ganxor­
cieleba SesZlo bolo wlebis ganmavlobaSi, rac
Zlieri jaris Seqmnis winapirobas warmoadgens~ –
dasZina qalbatonma qeiganma.
aRsaniSnavia, rom saqarTvelom Tavis Tavze aiRo
is pasuxismgebloba, rom msoflios winaSe mdgari
safrTxeebis ganeitralebaSi aqtiuri monawileo­
ba miiRos. erTi ram cxadia, rom saqarTveloSi in­
teleqtualuri jaris mSenebloba warmatebiT mim­
dinareobs.
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Sveicarias dRes Tanamedrove standartebis mqone jari
hyavs, romelsac axlo megobroba da TanamSromloba
akavSirebs mezobel evropul SeiaraRebul ZalebTan,
iseve rogorc nato-sTan. es yovelTvis ase ar
iyo. bolo ori saukunis manZilze, maSin rodesac
qveynis sazRvrebidan Sveicariis neitralitetsa da
suverenitets safrTxe emuqreboda, Cveni SeiaraRebuli
Zalebi mSvidobis SesanarCuneblad da qveynis dasacavad
srul mzadyofnaSi iyvnen. Zlieri Tavdacvis mTavari
mizani mSvidobis SenarCunebaa, radgan mSvidobis
gareSe keTildReoba ar arsebobs. Cemi guliTadi
survilia, rom momdevno wlebSi saqarTveloSi mSvidoba
iyos da qveyanas mis yvela mezobelTan kargi
urTierToba hqondes.

misi aRmatebuleba lorenco ambergi

Sveicariis elCi saqarTveloSi

Switzerland has today an up-to date Army which is linked by close

friendship and co-operation with the armies of our European
neighbours as well as with NATO. This was not always so. In the last
two centuries, the Swiss Army stood ready to defend the country
and to preserve peace each time our neutrality and our sovereignty
were threatened by conflicts on our borders. The main goal of a
strong defence is to preserve peace, because without peace there is
no prosperity. It is my heartfelt wish that Georgia enjoys peace and
constructive relations with all its neighbours for many years to come.

H. e. Lorenzo Amberg
The Ambassador of Switzerland

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neba miboZeT, guliTa da suliT mogilocoT damdegi
Soba-axali weli da SeiaraRebuli Zalebis pirad
Semadgenlobas janmrTeloba, bedniereba da warmateba
vusurvo uaRresad sapasuxismgeblo saqmeSi.

vimedovneb, rom saqarTvelos mobiluri da

profesionaluri armiis mSeneblobis kursi, romelic
qveynis stabilurobisa da usafrTxoebis garanti
iqneba, warmatebiT warimarTeba. amave dros,
gulwrfelad mjera, rom qarTveli mebrZolebis maRali
sabrZolo momzadeba da profesionalizmi, mxolod
samxedro swavlebebis dros iqneba gamoyenebuli.

minda, saqarTvelos mosaxleobas keTildReoba, winsvla

da mSvidoba vusurvo.

karen muradiani
somxeTis samxedro ataSe saqarTveloSi
maiori

Let me sincerely congratulate you on the coming New Year and wish
the personnel of Georgia’s Armed Forces health, happiness and suc-
cess in its very responsible occupation.

I hope that the process of establishing Georgia’s mobile and quali-

fied Armed Forces, a guarantee of stability and security, will be imple-
mented successfully. At the same time, I believe that the high mili-
tary preparedness and professionalism of Georgian warriors will be
utilized only in military training.

Finally, I would like to wish the Georgian people welfare, success, and
peace.

maj Karen Muradian

Defence Attaché of Armenia in Georgia

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Seni rezervi,
qveynis rezervi!

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 Your Reserve,
Your Country`s Reserve!
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rezervistTa momzadeba
Military Training of Reservists

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 spec-proeqti/SPEC-project
grZeldeba
Continues
xatia yuraSvili
Khatia Kurashvili

saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministro warma­

tebiT axorcielebs rezervistTa momzade-
bis programas. savaldebulo sarezervo
samsaxurs senakis, kojris, muxrovanis da
Te­lavis rezervistTa momzadebis bazebze
sxvadasxva asakisa da socialuri jgufis pi­
rebi gadian. Cven yvela nomerSi vcdilobT
gagiziaroT rezervistebis STabeWdilebe-
bi da emociebi. gamonaklisi arc es nomeri
iqneba.

The Ministry of Defence of Georgia suc-

cessfully implements the program of re-
servists’ preparation. People of different
social layers and age undergo obliga-
tory military training courses in Senaki,
Kojori, Mukhrovani and Telavi reserve
bases. We attempt to share with you im-
pressions and experiences of reservists
in each edition of the magazine and this
edition is not an exception.

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 For the first time, the Ministry of Defense of Georgia has called
up reserve doctors. The preparatory program for doctors differs
from the preparatory program for common reservists. A special
battalion has been formed with medical staff. Reservist Kakha
Nuralidze stressed the importance of forming this special medical
battalion. The Director General of the National Medical Center
of Western Georgia, Kakha Nuralidze, is 33 years old. He
completed obligatory military training courses at Mukhrovani
Base.

Kakha Nuralidze: “A lot of employees of the National Medical

Center of the Western Georgia have stated a desire to go into the
Reserve. The majority of employees of Zurab Tskhakaia Center
were physically present on Mukhrovani Base. Their age exceeds
40 years old and they are not obligated to have military prepara-
tion training according to existing legislation. I could not stay at
home considering the present situation.

We had special training for the 410th Medical Battalion. The idea
behind creating a medical battalion was proper and reasonable.
The Georgian military forces require effective medical service.

kaxa nuraliZe Last year’s experience has shown that the problem will be not
solved with the existence of a military hospital only. In light of

Kakha Nuralidze
current circumstances, the Soviet model has become out dated
and a mobile, highly skilled, and complex military medical service
is necessary.

saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministrom It was necessary for doctors to get used to wearing the military
savaldebulo sarezervo samsaxurSi eqimebi uniform and this is one situation where the surgeon operates in
pirvelad gaiwvia. maTi momzadebis programa an ultra modern operating room with music playing in the back-
gansxvavdeba Cveulebrivi rezervistebis ground creating a different psychological spirit than that which
momzadebis programisgan. Camoyalibda is created during field conditions which is certainly absent of
batalioni, romelic mTlianad samedicino any music playing in the background. Too many doctors in our
personaliT dakompleqtda. am batalionis
Seqmnis mniSvnelobaze rezervisti kaxa
nuraliZe gvesaubra. dasavleT saqarTvelos
erovnuli samedicino centris generaluri
direqtori, kaxa nuraliZe 33 wlisaa. man
savaldebulo sarezervo samsaxuri muxrovanis
bazaze gaiara.

kaxa nuraliZe: `sarezervo samsaxurSi wamosvlis

survili dasavleT saqarTvelos erovnuli samedi­
cino centris bevrma TanamSromelma gamoTqva.
muxrovanis bazaze dRes yvelaze meti swored
zurab cxakaias saxelobis samedicino centris per­
sonalia warmodgenili. maTi asaki 40 wels aWarbebs
da kanoniT savaldebulo sarezervo samsaxuris
gavla ar evalebodaT. am pirobebSi ubralod Tavs
ver miveci ufleba saxlSi davrCeniliyavi.

Cven savaldebulo sarezervo samsaxurs 410-e

samedicino batalionSi gavdivarT. samedicino
batalionis Seqmnis idea udaod swori da gamarTle­
bulia. saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul Zalebs sWirdeba
efeqturi samedicino samsaxuri. ganvlili wlebis
gamocdilebam gviCvena, rom marto samxedro hospi­

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battalion found it difficult to adapt to military life. It meant that
they could not provide the essential medical aid to the victim
under battlefield conditions. The medical battalion differs from
others reserve battalions as it does not perform concrete mili-
tary tasks associated with common battalions. A medical bat-
talion comprised of surgeons, anesthesiologists, traumatologists,
orthopedists and neurosurgeons possessing top skills, cannot be
deployed in one place. They should be circulated on different
territories precisely, in regular intervals and correctly. A bright
example of non-coordinated actions is the war in Abkhazia. Non-
coordination results in chaos and inefficiency of medical service
that leads to greater personnel losses. The Ministry of Defence
put forth a great deal of effort to create a medical battalion by
selecting doctors who communicate among themselves, doctors
that are compatible to the military environment and then circu-
lating these same doctors throughout various sectors around the
country. Considering everything I have just mentioned, I am
delighted with the equal rights policy adopted by the Ministry of
Defense of Georgia.
I shall draw one more conclusion. One military person can carry
out one concrete task, but one doctor cannot operate without the
assistance of an anesthesiologist, a nurse, an assistant, etc., and
everything is not left up to a doctor’s professionalism. I would like
to mention the psychological aspects which follow the arrival of
many wounded soldiers. During this period of time, the creative
abilities of doctors are decreased. I think a plan should be devel-
oped with guidelines for concrete actions. For example, consider
trauma patients, those suffering from gunshot wounds in the heart
area, stomach injury, etc. In these cases, there is little room for
error and it is better to find the answers to such questions during
peacetime. What we have today is praiseworthy, but we should
aspire to be the best.”
tali am problemas ver gadaWris, sabWoTa modeli
absoluturad moZvelebulia da Cven gvWirdeba mo­
biluri, aseve maRalkvalificiuri, kompleqsuri
samxedro samedicino samsaxuri.
aucilebeli iyo eqimebi SeCveodnen samxedro
formis tarebas. mogexsenebaT rom, erTi saqmea
roca qirurgi operacias maRalteqnologiur
saoperacioSi, musikis fonze akeTebs da sul sxva
fsiqologiuri ganwyobaa, roca mas Tavisi saqmis
keTeba savele pirobebSi uxdeba, arc Tu ise musika­
luri fonis TanxlebiT. bevr eqims gauWirda samx­
edro cxovrebasTan Segueba. es mianiSnebs im faqtze,
rom saWiroebis SemTxvevaSi, brZolis velze isini
ver SeZlebdnen dazaralebulebisTvis saTanado
samedicino daxmarebis aRmoCenas. samedicino bata­
lioni gansxvavdeba sxva rezervistTa batalion­
ebisgan, radgan saomari moqmedebebis dros Cveu­
lebriv batalions erTi konkretuli dislokaciis
adgili eqneba da konkretul samxedro davalebas
Seasrulebs. samedicino batalioni ki, romelic
dakompleqtebulia maRali rangis qirurgebis,
anesTeziologebis, travmatologebis, orTopede­
bisa da neiroqirurgebisgan, bunebrivia, ver iqneba
dislocirebuli erT adgilze. es xalxi sworad,
gegmazomierad da zustad unda gadanawildes sxva­
dasxva teritoriul erTeulebze. afxazeTis omis
gamocdilebam gvaCvena ra mosdevs arakoordini­
rebul qmedebebs. amas sruli qaosi da samedicino
samsaxuris araefeqturoba mohyveba, rac daSave­
bulebSi sikvdilianobis ricxvs zrdis. swored ami­
tom var aRfrTovanebuli saqarTvelos Tavdacvis
saministrosTan dialogiT, romelic Tanaswor pi­
robebSi Sedga. aq isaubres praqtikosma eqimebma
da Tavdacvis saministros warmomadgenlebma, Cven
mivediT erT saerTo gadawyvetilebamde. Tavdacvis
saministrom am batalionis SeqmniT gaakeTa maqsi­
mumi, erT adgilas Tavi mouyara eqimebs, romlebmac
erTmaneTi gaicnes, SeeCvivnen samxedro pirobebs da
isini saqarTvelos masStabiT sxvadasxva seqtore­
bze gadaanawila. aq kidev erT paralels gavavleb,
erT samxedros SeuZlia konkretuli davalebis Ses­
ruleba, eqimi ki rogori profesionalic ar unda
iyos, operacias marto ver gaakeTebs. operaciis
dros qirurgs sWireba anesTeziologi, saoperacio
medda, asistenti... minda aseve visaubro fsiqologi­
ur datvirTvaze, romelic Tan sdevs erTdroulad
didi raodenobiT daWrilebis miRebas. am dros eqi­
mis SemoqmedebiTi unari ecema. amitom, Cemi azriT,
samomavlod SesamuSavebelia konkretuli `gaid­
lainebi~. `gaidlaini~ aris konkretuli moqmede­
bis gegma. magaliTad travmuli Sokis, gulmkerdis
cecxlsasroli Wrilobis, muclis Rrus dazianebis
dros da sxva. es Seamcirebs eqimebis Secdomebis al­
baTobas. is risi mofiqrebac SesaZlebelia axla, mS­
vidobianobis periodSi amis gakeTebis saSualeba ar
iqneba daZabulobis dros. Zalian kargia dRes rac
gvaqvs, magram Cven unda vimuSavoT rom xval ukeTe­
si gvqondes.~
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omar babiloZe
Omar Babilodze
Student-reservists share with us a different perspective.
Reservist Omariko Babilodze is 19 years old. He is a student
of the Georgian Technical University. He has completed
sul sxva emocia aqvT student-rezervistebs. obligated military training courses at Kojori Base.
rezervisti omar babiloZe 19 wlisaa, is
saqarTvelos teqnikuri universitetis mesame Omar Babilodze: “I have passed reserve preparation training
kursis studentia. man savaldebulo sarezervo at Kojori Base. During my eighteen-day reserve training pro-
samsaxuri kojris rezervistTa momzadebis gram, we performed a live fire exercise and technical training.
bazaze gaiara. We completed self-survival training and learned how to dig en-
trenchments. I would like to talk about the live fire exercise
omar babiloZe: `savaldebulo sarezervo sam­
saxuri kojors rezervistTa momzadebis bazaze
gaviare. 18 dRiani Sekrebis dros Cven sacecxle
da taqtikuri momzadeba, aseve savele pirobebSi
TviTgadarCenis kursi da sangrebis gaTxra Se­
viswavleT. minda gamovyo sacecxle momzadeba,
romelic `krwanisi~-s saswavlo centrSi gavi­
areT. dilidanve emociurad dadebiTad ganvew­
yveT, radgan sacecxle momzadebis gasavlelad
rezervistebi samxedro manqanebiT kojris bazi­
dan `krwanisis~ erovnul saswavlo centrSi gad­
agviyvanes. gzaSi mosaxleoba gulTbilad gvegebe­
boda da gvesalmeboda. sasiamovno SegrZneba iyo.
aseTi Tbili damokidebuleba ubralo xalxisgan
sxva dros ar migvrZnia. am emocias albaT samx­
edro forma iwvevda. saswavlo centrSi iaraRi

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which we passed at Krtsanisi Center. Since early morning, we
were looking forward, in a very positive way, to the upcoming
live fire exercises. We were transported from Kodjori to Krt-
sanisi by military trucks. During our transport, we received a
warm welcome from the local population. I have never expe-
rienced such a warm reception before. I believe this positive
reaction by the population is due to our military’s good repu-
tation. At the training center, we received our weapon along
with 200 bullets. We were glad and excited because we never
touched a weapon before. It is a well known fact that for Geor-
gian men to possess a weapon is a great honor. I would like to
stress the most important point – we have learned to shoot. I
had the best shooting score and I’m proud of it. The exercise
lasted for two days. During the first day, we learned how to
aim our gun and shoot single shots. During the second day,
we shot our weapon in the automatic mode from a distance of
100, 200 and 300 meters. It would be desirable to remember
that day when our battalion made a road march. We walked a
distance of 35 kilometers. During this march we also jogged
for short distances. The footwear made my legs hurt. I mes-
saged them and then completed the march. After running, we
were laying in our entrenchments while a machine gun moved
above our heads. The Sergeant explained that it is much differ-
ent to shoot then when you are being shot at. Also, I can still
hear the turn of bullets in my ears... I’m going to serve in the
reserve again next year.”
marS-naxtomi
Forced March
dagviriges da TiToeuls 200 tyvia gvasrolines.
biWebi Zalian gaxarebulebi viyaviT. iaraRTan
Sexeba adre ar gvqonia da mogexsenebaT, iaraRis
floba da codna qarTveli kacisTvis saamayoc
aris. meore, faqtori ki is iyo, rom Cven srola
viswavleT. sakmaod kargi Sedegi vaCvene, rac
Zalian meamayeba. swavleba or dRes gagrZelda,
pirvel dRes mizanSi srola erTeuli gasroliT
SeviswavleT, meore dRes ki isev mizanSi srola,
magram amjerad avtomaturi jeriT 100-200-300
metriani distanciidan. minda aseve gavixseno is
dRe, roca Cvenma batalionma marS-naxtomi ganax­
orciela. sruli aRWurvilobiT 35 kilometriani
distancia kojris bazidan krwanisis saswavlo
centramde fexiT gaviareT. msvlelobis dros
mokle gadarbenebic iyo. gagviWirda, radgan
samxedro fexsacmelma yvelas gvatkina fexebi.
miuxedavad imisa, rom fexebi sul gadayvlefili
mqonda, mainc bolomde virbine da davZlie dis­
tancia. iq ki serJantebma winaswar gaTxril san­
grebSi Cagvawvines da zemodan tyviamfrqvevi
gadagvatares. rogorc serJantebma agvixsnes er­
Tia roca brZolaSi Sen isvri, da sul sxva mniS­
vneloba aqvs icode ras niSnavs, roca Sen gesvri­
an. axlac mesmis tyviebis zuzuni... Semdeg welsac
aucileblad waval rezervSi.~
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aleqsandre lomTaZe Reservist Aleksandre Lomtadze is 28 years old. He works in
the GDM Company. During his eighteen-day Reserve training
Aleksandre Lomtadze program he became a machine gunner.

Aleksandre Lomtadze: “Unexpectedly for me - I have appeared

among those twelve reservists from five hundred fifty people who
rezervisti, aleqsandre lomTaZe 28 wlisaa. is have been selected for service in the Reserve and I became a ma-
`GDM Company~-Si muSaobs. aleqsandre lomTaZe chine gunner. All of us were assigned assistants. We were sent to
a polygon and practiced firing from different machine guns. It was
18 dRiani savaldebulo sarezervo samsaxuris
exciting and it’s hard to explain my emotions. I’ve always wished
gavlis periodSi metyviamfrqveve gaxda. to become a soldier and wear the military uniform. This wish was
realized and I’m very glad that service in the Reserve is obligatory.
aleqsandre lomTaZe: `CemTvis moulodnelad im I’m going to serve in the Reserve again next year. I have acquired
Tormet rezervists Soris aRmovCndi, romlebic a major skill during my service in the Reserve. First of all, I was
550 kacidan SeirCa da metyviamfrqveve gaxda. accustomed to the order and discipline that is very important in
Tormetives TanaSemweebi dagviniSnes da wagviy­ the military. We studied the proper use of firearms. We also had
vanes poligonze, sadac sxvadasxva saxis tyviam­ a very qualified instructor.”
frqvevebidan visroleT. saocari SegrZneba iyo,
miWirs sityvebiT amis gadmocema. yovelTvis min­
doda jariskaci vyofiliyavi da samxedro forma
mcmoda. es ocneba amixda da mixaria, rom sarezer­
vo samsaxuri savaldebuloa da momaval welsac
vimsaxureb. rezervSi yofnis dros bevri iseTi
Tviseba SeviZine, rac Cemi azriT yvela mamakacs
unda hqondes. savaldebulo sarezervo samsax­
urSi pirvel rigSi wesrigs da disciplinas swav­
lob da eCvevi, rac metad aucilebelia samxedro
mosamsaxureebisTvis da armiisTvis. aseve swavlob
cecxlsasroli iaraRis swored xmarebas. iq xvdebi
rom avtomaturi Tu nebismieri saxis iaraRi marto
srolisTvis da damiznebisTvis, aseve daSla-awyo­
bisTvis ar gamoiyeneba. Zalian kargi da gamocdili
instruqtorebi gvyavda.~

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ramaz giorgaSvili
Ramaz Giorgashvili
Reservist Ramaz Giorgashvili is 37 years old. During his obli-
gated eighteen-day Reserve training he became a video-opera-
tor of Found INTERNEWS.
Ramaz Giorgashvili: “Can you imagine that during two weeks
I handled a cam and missed work? Work of the operator is
to provide video coverage from beginning to end. He should
record all the battalion’s steps and record by cam all possible
characters and views. I was performing this role while carrying
all my ammunition with the automatic device hung in front
of me and my knapsack behind me. In spite of everything,
I didn’t feel tired and had the strength to make it to the end
of the exercise. I performed my obligated Reserve training at
Telavi Base. The past eighteen days were unforgettable. Great
sergeants trained us; some of them served in Iraq and willingly
shared interesting stories. I ‘m the operator and find it profes-
sionally interesting that the sergeant allowed me to record our
road march on the cam. Sergeants have shared with us the
features of their fighting abilities. We have learned many inter-
esting maneuvers. It was interesting to learn that if one soldier
will be wounded, he will be left behind. It is necessary, as much
as possible, to neutralized danger and then return for wounded
rather than to put yourself in danger of being wounded. Allow
me to remember one amusing incident: During an exercise, our
sergeant taught us to use our weapon. He also explained how
to use grenades – “when you pull out the ring immediately start
counting; one-thousand one, one-thousand two, one-thousand
three”. One naive reservist asked – “How do you think, while
I shall count up to one-thousand one, this might not blow up a
pomegranate?” It was ridiculous”.
savaldebulo sarezervo samsaxuri fond
“interniusis” video-operatorma ramaz
giorgaSvilmac gaiara. is 37 wlisaa.
ramaz giorgaSvili: `me operatori var da gamixarda,
roca serJantebma kameriT marS-naxtomis gadaRebis
nebarTva momces. warmoidgineT, kamera ori kvira ar
mWeria xelSi, muSaobas monatrebuli viyavi, Tan op­
eratoris saqmec aqeT-iqeT sirbilia, man batalionis
svlis yvela SesaZlo xedi unda gadaiRos, mokled
yvela rakursi daafiqsiros. Cems ampluaSi viyavi,
sruli aRWurvilobiT, win avtomati mqonda Camok­
idebuli, ukan ki zurgCanTa. xan aRmarTze mixdeboda
sirbili, xan qvian gzaze. miuxedavad yvelafrisa ar
davRlilvar. Zalian kargi iyo, bolomde davixarje.
savaldebulo sarezervo samsaxuri Telavis rezerv­
istTa momzadebis bazaze gaviare. Tvrametive dRe
mniSvnelovani da dasamaxsovrebeli iyo. Zalian kargi
serJantebi gvyavda, zogierTi maTgani eraySi namyofi
iyo da bevr saintereso istorias gviyveboda.
serJantebma sabrZolo xelovnebis saintereso da
mniSvnelovani xerxebi gagviziares. erTi kuriozic
minda gavixseno. sacecxle momzadebis dros, serJan­
tebi sxvadasxva cecxlsasroli iaraRis gamoyenebas
gvaswavlidnen. jeri xelyumbaris xmarebis wesam­
dec mivida da serJantma gviTxra _ roca xelyumba­
ras damcav rgols movxsniT, unda daviTvaloT aTas
erTi, aTas ori, aTas sami da Semdeg visroloT. (rad­
gan erTi, ori, samis Tqmas mcire dro Wirdeba, xely­
umbaris moqmedebaSi mosvlisTvis ki ufro meti droa
saWiro). erTma gulubryvilo rezervistma ikiTxa:
sanam me aTas erTamde daviTvli, davijero, es xely­
umbara ar afeTqdeba... Zalian bevri vicineT.~
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 saerTo faseulobebze dafuZnebul TanamSromlobis
10 wliani gamocdilebisa da samagaliTo megobrobis
gaTvaliswinebiT mtkiced gvwams, rom Cveni qveynebis
keTilmezobluri urTierToba momalSic gagrZeldeba,

vulocav axal wels saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministros

Semadgenlobasa da saqarTvelos mosaxleobas.

misi aRmatebuleba erTan Tezgori

TurqeTis elCi saqarTveloSi

The Georgian Armed Forces have been developing rapidly, since

the day of its establishment. 2007 was very important in order to
improve training, discipline, and military equipment. I think, the fast
process of development of the Georgian Armed Forces will continue
in 2008 and it will become an important force for Caucasus region. I
wish to the Georgian Armed Forces, and to the population of Geor-
gia, success and happiness in 2008.

H. e. Ertan TEZGÖR
Ambassador of the Republic of
Turkey to Georgia

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saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebi swrafad viTardeba
daarsebis dRidan. saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli
ZalebisaTvis 2007 weli swavlebis, disciplinisa
da samxedro aRWurvilobis TvalsazrisiT Zalze
mniSvnelovani ganviTarebis weli iyo. vfiqrob, 2008
welsac gagrZeldeba saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis
swrafi ganviTareba da igi mniSvnelovani Zala gaxdeba
kavkasiis regionisaTvis. saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul
Zalebsa da qarTvel xalxs vusurveb, rom 2008 weli
warmatebisa da bednierebis momtani iyos.

sefer ajar
TurqeTis respublikis samxedro ataSe,
Stabis polkovniki

The Georgian Armed Forces have been developing rapidly, since

the day of it establishment. The 2007 was very important in order to
improve training, discipline, and military equipment. I think, the fast
process of development of the Georgian Armed Forces will continue
in 2008 and it will become the important force for Caucasus region.
I wish to the Georgian Armed Forces and to the population of
Georgia success and happiness to the year 2008.

Staff Colonel Sefer Ajar

Military attaché of Turkey,

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arsebobs kariera,
kar
xolo rCeulTaTvis _ oficris kari
There are Careers,
and then there is a Career as an
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riera!
iera!

Officer!
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satelevizio proeqtidan realur jarSi
From TV Project to the real Army
Salva londariZe
Shalva Londaridze

Tavdacvis erovnuli akademia umcros oficerTa mosamzadebel kursebze msmenelTa re-

krutirebas ganagrZobs. saswavlo programa 2006 wlidan saqarTvelos prezidentis mixeil
saakaSvilis iniciativiT xorcieldeba.

swavlebis mizani saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis maRali inteleqtis mqone, profesion-

ali oficrebiT daakompleqtebaa. axalgazrda samxedroebma sameTauro unar-Cvevebisa da
samxedro gamocdilebis gamoyeneba danayofebsa da qvedanayofebSi efeqturad unda SeZlon.

oficerTa rekrutirebis programaSi monawileobis survili wels 2000-mde konkursantma

gamoTqva, Tumca maTgan, swavlis gagrZelebis ufleba, mxolod eqvsasma moipova. msmenelTa
Soris satelevizio proeqt “yazarm”-is monawileebic arian.

satelevizio proeqtis Semdeg levan gavaSeliSvili, kaxi yavlaSvili da zoia kurtaniZe

saoficre programiT momzadebas Tavdacvis erovnul akademiaSi gadian. msmenelebs Cven
“muxrovani”-s sawvrTnel poligonze gavesaubreT. lela petriaSvili ki Tavdacvis samin-
istroSi moviwvieT, sadac Cveni dialodi Sedga. igi erovnuli saswavlo centr “krwanisi”-s
kavSirgabmulobis batalionis kapralia.

The National Defence Academy of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia continues the recruiting
process for the Junior Officers Training Courses. Development of the training courses began in
2006 under the initiative of the President of Georgia, Mikhail Saakashvili.

The prime objective of the training is to provide the Armed Forces of Georgia with intelligent
and qualified officers. Young militaries should then carefully manage and effectively uti-
lize the skills and experience of these soldiers.

Nearly 2000 applicants have declared their desire to participate in the training, but only 600
participants have received approval to participate. Among selected competitors, there are
also participants of the television reality show “Barracks” or “Kazarma”.

After end of the television project, Levan Gavashelishvili, Kakha Kavlashvili and Zoja
Kurtanidze were selected to continue training under the Junior Officers Training Courses in
The National Defence Academy. We have met students in Mukhrovani.

Each participant was interviewed by Lela Petriashvili at the Ministry of Defence. Lela is a corpo-
ral assigned to the Communications Battalion of the National Train ing Centre “Krtsanisi”.

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levan gavaSeliSvili
Levan Gavashelishvili

The military has been an important part of my life since child-

hood, I have always had a great desire to serve in the Armed
Forces of Georgia. For this reason, I expressed my readiness to
participate in the Barracks. Becoming a winner of this project
has defined my future and radically changed it.

You were civil servant before entering the military. What kind of
changes have you experienced in your person?

The changes are sizable. I feel that I became stronger, both

physically and psychologically.

What was the first reaction of your relatives?

My family members were quite skeptical about my choice. They

had been concerned about my physical abilities and said that I
could not overcome the physical challenges. Fortunately, their
predictions were not justified. There are no barriers and no task
that cannot be completed for the diligent person in the Army.
What kind of exercise did you passed today?
Our platoon conducted an ambush operation. My task was the
destruction of the enemy by use of a sniper rifle. I received
praise for my performance of the task from the platoon com-
mander, which was nice.
What are your suggestions regarding meals?
samxedro cxovreba bavSvobidan mitacebda. yov­
elTvis mindoda saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul Zaleb­
Si memsaxura. `yazarma~-Si monawileobis survili
Tavis droze amitomac gamovTqvi. Semdeg ise moxda,
rom teleproeqtis gamarjvebuli gavxdi, ramac
Cemi bedi radikalurad Secvala.
adre samoqalaqo piri iyavi, axla samxedro xar. ra
gansxvavebas xedav Sens pirovnebaSi?
gansxvaveba sakmaod didia. vgrZnob, rom fizikurad da
fsiqologiurad gacilebiT Zlieri var, vidre adre vi­
yavi.

The menu is rich and we do not have any problem in this re-
gard.
While you were a civilian you certainly received presentations
about the military. How do you see it now, through eyes of a
soldier?
It is a well known fact that previously the Georgian Army was
impersonal and unmotivated and that even basic requirements
were not being met.
Seni axloblebis pirveli reaqcia rogori iyo?
Cems arCevans ojaxis wevrebi skeptikurad Sexvdnen.
yvelaze metad isini fizikur monacemebze amaxvilebd­
nen yuradRebas da meubnebodnen, rom jarSi fizikuri
datvirTva Zalian gamiWirdeboda. sabednierod maTi
prognozi ar gamarTlda. mondomebuli kacisTvis jarSi
gausaZlisi araferia.
dRes ra saxis varjiSi gaiare?

Today, the situation is fundamentally changed and this provides Cvenma oceulma mowinaaRmdegis jgufze Casafrebis op­
the motivation and stimulus to serve in the National Armed eracia ganaxorciela. Cemi uSualo funqcia snaiperis
Forces. SaSxaniT mtris ganadgureba iyo.

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Zalian gamixarda, rodesac warmatebulad ganxorciele­
buli operaciisTvis oceulma meTauris Seqeba daimsax­
ura.
kvebaze ras ityvi?
meniu mravalferovania, racioni mdidari. ase, rom kvebis
mxriv aranairi problema ar arsebobs.
sanam samoqalaqo piri iyavi albaT SeiaraRebul Za-
lebze garkveuli warmodgena gqonda. rogor xedav am
yvelafers jaris TvaliT?
yvelasaTvis cnobilia, rom gasul wlebSi qarTuli jari
yovlad usaxuri da umotivacio iyo. xSir SemTxvevaSi
elementaruli pirobebic ki ar arsebobda.
dRes viTareba radikalurad Secvlilia rac qarTul
armiaSi samsaxuris stimuls kidev ufro aZlierebs.
gamoTqmuli azris miuxedavad garkveul paralels
mainc gavavleb. sabWoTa jarSi qarTvelebi procentu-
lad ufro privilegirebul nawilebSi msaxurobdnen.
e.w. “xlebareznikobac” ki xSir SemTxvevaSi saamayo
iyo. sainteresoa qarTul jarSi axla ra mdgomare-
obaa. arsebobs raime saxis privilegiebi?
qarTuli jari namdvil armiad yalibdeba. warsuls Cab­
arda dro, rodesac jarSi `dedovSCinis~ dauwereli
kanonebiT moqmedebdnen. `xlebareznikobiTac~ Tavs ve­
ravin iwonebs.
jarSi Tu modixar, saqme unda akeTo, dRes ase dgas
sakiTxi. es principi yvelasaTvis moqmedebs.
oficersa da rigiTs Soris saqmianTan erTad, megobruli
damokidebulebac aris. qveSevrdomsa da zemdgoms Soris
aseTi midgoma momavlis perspeqtivas namdvilad iZleva.
In spite of expressed opinions, I shall draw a parallel. In the
Soviet Army, Georgian soldiers served in exclusive brigades.
Some people were proud to be so-called “Khleborezniki” (bread-
slicers). What is the current situation in the Georgian Army, do
we have any privileges?
The Georgian Armed forces really are in the presses of trans-
formation. In the remote past, there were laws of “Dedovshina”
and “Khleborezniki”; nothing to be proud of. Today the task is
that you come to the army to do your best. This principle works
for everyone.
There is a businesslike yet friendly relationship between officers
and soldiers. Such a relationship gives opportunities for further
career development.
As I know, after finishing the TV project, you personally asked
the president to continue service in Army.
I’m thankful to the President. Without him, my position as an
officer would stand in doubt. After winning the TV project, I
decided to take the exams at the The National Defence Acad-
emy for the Junior Officers Training Courses.
One fine day, by the will of destiny, the President and Defence
Minister met with the BARRACKS participants. At that time
I came before the Supreme Commander in Chief with the re-
quest to serve in the Army.
The main goal of Georgia is to become a member of NATO. How
valuable will fulfillment of this goal be for Georgia?
We are not immune from external aggression. The member-
ship in the North-Atlantic alliance will grant us more self-con-
fidence.

ramdenadac vici teleproeqtis dasrulebis Semdeg

qarTul armiaSi samsaxuri piradad prezidents sTx-
oveT...

prezidentis didi madlobeli var. is rom ara, Cemi moma­

vali oficroba kiTxviTi niSnis qveS dadgeboda.

teleproeqt `yazarma~-Si gavimarjvebis Semdeg, gadavw­

yvite erovnul akademiaSi saoficre kursebze Camebare­
bina.

erT mSvenier dRes gangebam ise ineba, rom prezidentma

da Tavdacvis ministrma `yazarmi~-s monawileebTan Sex­
vedris survili gamoTqves. umaRlesi mTavarsardlis
winaSe sasurveli TxovniT swored maSin warvsdeqi...

levan gavaSeliSvili da kaxi yavlaSvili

76 sacecxle momzadebis dros
kaxi yavlaSvili
Kakhi Kavlashvili
It is a great honor and responsibility to serve in National
Army. It is not easy to stand at a post and to protect the
native land, but if you wish to become a good officer you
must overcome these difficulties.
What do you like most about the Georgian Army?
I like the consistency and spirit of union of the Army. No
one uses privileges that they do not deserve. One goal in-
corporates officers and soldiers alike. They are called on
to protect their native land from external aggression.
They say, that a friend from the Army is not worse than a
friend from childhood.
Tavdacvis saministros erovnuli
akademiis msmeneli
The student of the National
Academy of the Ministry of Defence.
qarTul armiaSi samsaxuri CemTvis udidesi pa­
tivi, Rirseba da pasuxismgeblobaa. qveynis sam­
saxurSi Cadgoma ra Tqma unda advili ar aris,
magram Tu ginda, rom kargi oficeri gaxde,
sirTuleebic unda gadalaxo.
yvelaze metad qarTul jarSi ra mogwons?
qarTul jarSi dRes saocari erTsulovnebaa.
yvelaze metad swored es mixaria. daumsaxure­
beli privilegiebiT aq aravin sargeblobs. ofi­
cersa da jariskacs erTi amocana aqvT dasaxuli
da mas gare agresiisgan samSoblos dacva hqvia.
amboben jaris megobari bavSvobis megobarze
aranaklebi erTgulebiT gamoirCeva...
jarSi megobris saxiT uamravi adamiani SeviZine.
megobrebSi gansxvaveba ar aris miRebuli, magram
jaris megobari, marTlac gansakuTrebuli erT­
gulebiTa da pasuxismgeblobiT gamoirCeva.
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magaliTisTvis, Tundac imitirebul sabrZolo
moqmedebas moviyvan. is, rom mewyvilis sicocxle
da janmrTeloba Sens konkretul moqmedebazea
damokidebuli ukve yvelaferze metyvelebs.
saswavlo programis warmatebiT dasruleb-
is SemTxvevaSi leitenantis wodebas miiReb.
rogor warmogidgenia Seni Tavi meTauris
rangSi?
saswavlo kursis Semdeg, romelsac sami Tvis
Semdeg davasruleb, oficeri gavxdebi. vfiqrob
samxedro gamocdileba pirovnebis Camoyalibe­
baSi gansakuTrebiT damexmareba.
Sevecdebi kargi meTauri viyo da pirad Semad­
genlobasTan urTierToba saqmianTan erTad,
keTilganwyobili adamianis TvisebebiT avago.
cota ram saswavlo programis Sesaxeb gviambe
saswavlo kursiT Zalian kmayofili var. imis
miuxedavad, rom wvrTna amJamad savele pirobebSi
miwevs, rac adamianuri TvalsazrisiT garkveul
diskomforts ukavSirdeba, metad aucilebel
gamocdilebas viReb.
swavleba nato-s moTxovnebis Sesabamisad gvi­
tardeba. TeoriulTan erTad, me da Cemi mego­
brebi praqtikul mecadineobebsac gavdivarT.
xelmZRvanelobis aseTi midgoma Cvens yovel­
dRiur wvrTvnas saxalisosac ki xdis.
Cveni saubris bolos ojaxis wevrebzec gkiTx-
av. jarSi samsaxurma maTTan urTierTobaSi
xom ar SegzRuda?
erovnul akademiaSi Caricxvis Semdeg ojaxis
wevrebs naklebad vekontaqtebi. jaris disci­
plina ar iZleva imis saSualebas, rom Sens say­
varel adamianebs yovel dRe Sexvde an Tundac,
telefoniT esaubro. amas sruli gagebiT vekide­
bi.
jarSi rac var, vgrZnob, rom CemSi pasuxismge­
blobis grZnobam sagrZnoblad moimata da axla,
mxolod sakuTar Tavs ar vekuTvni. Cems ukan sam­
Sobloa, visTvisac mzad var profesionali samx­
edro gavxde da pirnaTlad vimsaxuro.
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I have made many friends in Army. It is difficult to al-
locate friendship, but friends from the Army are different
due to their sense of fidelity and responsibility.
For instance, during simulated combat you have to pro-
tect the life and health of your partners through your
sense of responsibility and rational action.
After finishing the training course you will be granted the
rank of lieutenant. How do you imagine yourself in that
position?
When I finish the three months of courses, I become an
officer. I suppose that military experience will help me in
my personal development. I will do my best for becom-
ing a good officer and to have good official and informal
relations with staff.
Would you mind telling us a few words regarding the train-
ing program?
I am satisfied with the training course. In spite of the fact
that the exercises are conducted in field conditions, and
it makes for some discomfort, we are receiving important
experience. The training is conducted according NATO
requirements. My friends and I undertake practical and
theoretical trainings. This instruction is useful and inter-
esting.
For the end of our interview I would like to ask you about
your family. Did you have any problems in the relation-
ship with your family members after your recruitment in
the Army?
After passing the exams in the National Academy, contact
with my family members became rare. The discipline in
the Army does not give you the chance to see the people
who are close to you every day or to talk with them by
phone. My concern is with their understanding. I feel that
my sense of responsibilities has increased. Standing be-
hind me is my homeland and I have expressed my readi-
ness to serve Georgia.

After the project I was so excited about the Army life that I
decided to serve in the Armed Forces. It is not easy, especially
for women, but my great desire will help me to solve any dif-
ficulties.
It is a pity, that at this stage I can not participate in the exercise
for the quarantine. I wish to study all subjects very well and the
qualitative improvements in my knowledge will help me in the
future.
How did you family feel about your recruitment in the Army?
Nobody was excited. You know Georgian conservatism regard-
ing women in the military.
Finally all attempts to brainwash me remained just that – nowa-
days I’m dressing in uniform.
When you start your own family is there a real chance that your
spouse will not approve of your service.
I did not think about this yet, but this task is less problematic.
I’m a patriot and I serve my country. I’m not sure if my feel-
ings are women’s intuition or predictions, but I will connect my
future with the military.
The political course of the Georgian government is conflicts
resolution by way of peace, but it is said – “if you wish for peace
be ready for war”
If I am needed, I shall not retreat. I have made my choice and,
during times of peace, I’m preparing for war.
zoia kurtaniZe
Zoja Kurtanidze
Tavdacvis erovnuli akademiis msmeneli
The student of the National Defence Academy
satelevizio proeqtis Semdeg jaris cxovrebiT
imdenad movixible, rom gadavwyvite SeiaraRebul
ZalebSi memsaxura. es ar aris advili, miTumetes
qalisTvis, magram mondomeba imdenad didia, rom
nebismier siZneles davZlev.
guli mwydeba, rom aJamad sakarantino peri­
ods gavdivar da samxedro swavlebebSi aqtiur
monawileobas ver viReb. CemTvis aqtiuroba axla
gadamwyvetia. minda yvelaferi xarisxianad Sevis­
wavlo, rac momavalSi samxedro samsaxurSi damex­
mareba.
Sens gasamxedroebas ojaxis wevrebi rogor Sex-
vdnen?
ojaxSi aRfrTovanebiT aravin Sexvedria amas. sabo­
lood Cemi gadarwmunebis mcdeloba mcdelobadve
darCa – dRes samxedro formas vatareb.
rodesac sakuTar ojaxs Seqmni, SesaZloa am
formis tarebas meuRle ver Seeguos?
ar vici Cemi winaTgrZnoba qalis intuicias mivawe­
ro Tu ara, magram mgonia, rom sakuTar beds samx­
edros davukavSireb.
saqarTvelos xelisuflebis politikuri kursi
konfliqtebis mSvidobiani gziT mogvarebaa,
Tumca arsebobs gamoTqma – “Tu ginda mSvidoba,
emzade omisTvis”
qveyanas Tu dasWirda, ukan araferze davixev.
urTulesi profesiis miuxedavad, arCevani ukve
gavakeTe da amitomac - mSvidobian pirobebSi omis­
aTvis vemzadebi, saWiroebis SemTxvevaSi mzad var,
Cemi movaleoba pirnaTlad Sevasrulo.
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lela petriaSvili
Lela Petriashvili
erovnuli saswavlo centr “krwanisi”-s
kavSirgabmulobis batalionis kaprali
The Corporal of the Communications Battalion of the National
Training Centre “Krtsanisi”.

mxedruli suliskveTebis adamiani var. jarSi sam­

saxuri amitomac gadavwyvite, Tumca Cemi arCevani
Svilebmac ganapirobes. ori tyupi vaJkaci mezrde­
ba, aTi wlis saba da demetre. survili maqvs maTTvis
samagaliTo deda viyo.

ramdenime xnis win oTxwlian kontraqts movawere

xeli. qveynis interesebidan gamomdinare, mzad var
SeiaraRebul ZalebSi uangarod vimsaxuro. maT So­
ris, samSvidobo misiiT qveynis farglebs gareT.

jarSi samsaxuri konkretulad rodis gadaw-

yvite? I’m a person with the military spirit and it has forced me to en-
ter into Army. My children have also influenced this decision;
jaris cxovreba yovelTvis mainteresebda. gavige
my two sons – ten years old twins Saba and Demetre. I wish
Tu ara teleproeqt `yazarm~-is Sesaxeb, mivxvdi, cx­
to be a devoted mother. Recently, I signed a contract for four
ovreba jarSi samsaxuris saukeTeso Sanss maZlevda,
years and I’m ready to serve the country including peacekeep-
romelic aucileblad unda gamomeyenebina.
ing missions abroad.
axla SemiZlia Tamamad vTqva, bavSvobis natvra re­
alobad vaqcie. miRweuliT Zalian vamayob. When did you start work in the Army?

I was always interested in an Army career and when I heard

about “The Barracks” I realized that life gives opportunities
and I should take this chance. Now I can declare that my dream
was realized and I am proud of reaching my goal.

I’m person with the military spirit and it has forced me to en-
ter into army, also my children have caused this step; my two
sons – ten years old twins Saba and Demetre. I wish to be de-
voted mother. Recently I have signed the contract for four years
and I’m ready to serve the country disinterestedly including in
peace-keeping missions abroad.

When did you start work in the army?

I was always interested in an army life and when I have heard

about the project the Barracks realized, that the life gave op-
portunities and I should take this chance. Now I can declare,
that my dream was realized and I am proud of reached.

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81
 maiori babunaSvili
diplomatiur samsaxurSi
persona/Profile

midis
rusudan cimakuriZe
Rusudan Tsimakuridze

germaniis federaciul respublikaSi, avs-

triasa da Sveicariis konfederaciaSi Tav-
dacvis saministros Tavdacvis axali ataSe
hyavs. maiori giga babunaSvili im warmate-
bul oficerTa ricxvs miekuTvneba, vinc
samxedro kariera, 12 wlis win, sakmaod rTul
periodSi daiwyo. maSin verc ki warmoid-
genda, rom misi rTuli xasiaTi momavalSi
gamorCeul samxedrod CamoyalibebaSi daex-
mareboda. mSoblebis gadawyvetilebas misi
survilic daemata da 1995 wels Tavdacvis
erovnul akademiaSi Caabara. kursantma
babunaSvilma swavla germaniis federaciul
respublikaSi, bundesveris samxedro saswav-
lebelSi gaagrZela. sami wlis Semdeg isev
akademias daubrunda. leitenantis wodebis
miRebis Semdeg samsaxuri kojris specdaniS-
nulebis brigadaSi, oceulis meTauris, Sem-
deg aseulis meTauris moadgilis, bolos
ki aseulis saStabo da uzrunvelyofis me-
Tauris Tanamdebobaze gaagrZela. 2001 wels
muSaobda Tavdacvis saministros diploma-
tiur misiebTan muSaobis ufros oficrad,
2003 wels ki germaniis mimarTulebis ofi-
crad.

2004 wels serJantTa momzadebis skolis ufrosad

dainiSna. 2005 wels II qveiTi brigadis 23-e msubuqi
qveiTi batalionis meTauris Tanamdebobaze gada­
inacvla, saidanac samSvidobo misiiT 7 Tvis ganma­
vlobaSi eraySi, qalaq baqubaSi imyofeboda. bolo
periodSi ki isev senakSi II brigadis Stabis ufro­
sis movaleobas asrulebda.

dekembris TveSi germaniaSi diplomatiur samsax­

urSi meuRlesTan, nino kiltavasTan erTad, gae­
mgzavreba. rogor Tavad ambobs, kargad aqvs gaT­
vicnobierebuli dakisrebuli misiis sirTule da
pasuxismgebloba. Tumca Tvlis, rom germania mis­
Tvis axlobeli qveyanaa da muSaoba ar gauWirdeba.
ukve dagegmili aqvs, rom samSobloSi ojaxis mesame

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From Combat Unit to
Diplomatic Career

The Ministry of Defence of Georgia appointed
a new defence attaché to the Federal Repub-
lic of Germany, Austria and the Swiss Confed-
eration. Major Giga Babunashvili is among
those successful officers who started their
military career 12 years ago in a very hard
time for Georgia. He just could not imagine
that his hot temper would help him to be-
come a professional soldier. The decision of
his parents coincided with his desire, and in
1995 he entered the National Defence Acad-
emy of Georgia. Cadet Babunashvili contin-
ued his studies at the Military Academy of
Bundeswehr, in the Federal Republic of Ger-
many. After three years he returned to the
Georgian Defence Academy. Upon receiving
the rank of a lieutenant he started service
in Kojori Special Forces Brigade as a platoon
commander. Then he was promoted to the po-
sition of a Deputy Company Commander and
then as the Commander of Staff and Provi-
sional Support Company. In 2001 he served as
the senior liaison officer of Diplomatic Mis-
sions of the Defence Ministry, in 2003 – desk of-
ficer of German direction.
In 2004 he was appointed as Chief of NCO School. In 2005 he
moved to the 2nd Infantry Brigade, as Commander of 23rd Light
Infantry Battalion. For seven months he fulfilled a peacekeeping
mission in Iraq, Baqubah. His last position was acting Chief of
Staff of 2nd Infantry Brigade in Senaki.
wevrTan erTad dabrundeba. mTavari mizani ki mainc
sakuTari qveynis jariskacoba da teritoriuli
mTlianobis aRdgenaa.
sakmaod sapasuxismgeblo Tanamdebobaze dainiS-
neT. ra gegmebi gaqvT?
es Tanamdeboba sakmaod sapasuxismgebloa. amisTvis
specialuri momzadeba gaviare. sabrZolo qvedan­
ayofidan iseT Tanamdebobaze gadavedi, romelic
diplomatiur misiebTan kontaqts gulisxmobs.
aqedan gamomdinare, unda gadaverTo sxva sferoze,
Tumca, isev samxedro mosamsaxured vrCebi.
yvelafers gavakeTeb imisaTvis, rom saqarTvelosa
da germanias Soris urTierTTanamSromloba ufro
gaizardos, gaRrmavdes da ganviTardes.
konkretulad ra Sedis Tqvens funqciebSi?
Cems funqciebSi Sedis yvelaferi is, rac germania­
sTan mimarTebaSi saqarTvelos exeba. maT Soris,
qarTveli samxedroebi, romlebic miemgzavrebian
iqaur saswavleblebSi, da sxvadasxva saxis kursebs
gadian; qarTuli qvedanayofebi, romlebic koso­
voSi asruleben samSvidobo misias, sadac germanu­
li kontigentis daqvemdebarebaSi uwevT yofna.
pirvel rigSi, Cemi qveynis saxe viqnebi. amaRle­
buli ganwyobiT mivdivar. imedi maqvs yvelafers

In December Giga and his wife will leave for Germany to start
his diplomatic service. According to him he fully realizes the dif-
ficulty and responsibility of the mission. However he considers
that he is very familiar with Germany and this will make his work
easier. He has already planned that he will return to Georgia
with the third member of the family. The major goal is to be a
soldier of his motherland and to restore the territorial integrity
of his country.

You were assigned a very responsible mission. What are the future
plans?

I realize that this position is very serious. I have been specially

prepared for this. Actually, from the combat I have been moved
erayi
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Iraq
ise gavakeTeb, rogorc Cems qveyanas da Cems saqmes
Seefereba.
cota xnis win imyofebodiT germaniaSi, sadac
gaecaniT iqaur situacias. ra mdgomareoba dagx-
vdaT, vis SexvdiT, raze moilaparakeT...
mivlinebiT vimyofebodi germaniaSi, gavecani im
atmosferos, sadac vimuSaveb. jer oficialuri
Sexvedrebi ar gamimarTavs, ufro mosamzadebeli
periodi gaviare.
Tu gaviTvaliswinebT im faqts, rom wlebis ganma­
vlobaSi vimyofebodi germaniis federaciul res­
publikaSi, ar unda gamiWirdes isev am qveyanasTan
SeCveva, TviTon xalxTan urTierToba da iq muSao­
ba.
rogoria Tqveni meuRlis damokidebuleba zoga-
dad Tqvens profesiaze da axal Tanamdebobaze?
albaT is ukeT upasuxebda am kiTxvas, me yovelTvis
vgrZnob ninos ganwyobas. is mudam gverdiT midgas.
7-8 welia, SabaT-kviras Tu vnaxulob mxolod, xan­
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to a position that requires hard work with the diplomatic mis-
sions. So I have to switch to a new sphere, however I still remain
a military serviceman.
I’ll do my best to strengthen, deepen and develop cooperation
between Georgia and Germany.
What are your concrete assignments?
My tasks comprise everything which concerns Georgia with re-
gard to Germany. This includes the Georgian servicemen who
are going to study and attend various courses in Germany, also
Georgian units that are performing peacekeeping mission in Ko-
sovo under the German Brigade.
First of all I’ll be the face of my country. The motivation is very
high. I hope I’ll do everything to meet the expectations of my
country and my job.
You have visited Germany recently to get acquainted with the situ-
ation. What can you say about the results, whom did you meet and
what did you decide?
I was on a leave in Germany where I got familiar with the atmo-
sphere where I’ll have to work. I have not held any official meet-
ings yet. It was just a preparatory period.
If we take into account the fact that I spent several years in the
Federal Republic of Germany I think it won’t be difficult for me
to get used to this country, its people and work.
What is your wife’s attitude generally towards your profession and
new position?
She would answer your questions better. I always feel Nino’s at-
titude. She always stands by my side. For 7-8 years I see her only
on weekends. Sometimes I don’t have the time even for this. I
used to work in various regions of Georgia, especially when I was
in Iraq we kept in touch via internet.
Before we got married she could not realize the difficulty of my
profession. Now she is getting used to it and I can say that she
is a little soldier, my assistant. I am sure that she will be by my
side till the end.
It’s pleasant that you are leaving together, however she will have
to be far from the country.
samSvidobo misiiT eraySi
On a Peacekeeping Mission in Iraq
daxan amasac ver vaxerxeb. saqarTvelos sxvadasxva
regionSi miwevda muSaoba, gansakuTrebiT eraySi
yofnisas, internetiT vkontaqtobdiT da am for­
miT vamxnevebdiT erTmaneTs.
sanam Cemi meuRle gaxdeboda ase mwvaved ar aRiqvam­
da am profesiis sirTules, magram nel-nela Seegua
da dRes SemiZlia vTqva, rom patara samxedroa, Cemi
TanaSemwea. me darwmunebuli var is bolomde ase
vaJkacurad iqneba Cems gverdiT.
kargia rom erTad miemgzavrebiT, Tumca mainc
qveynidan Sors mouwevs yofna.
mgoni Cemze metad uxaria, radgan, saxlSi imaze
ufro xSirad viqnebi, vidre adre vaxerxebdi. rac
mTavaria, TviTonac apirebs miiRos Sesabamisi
ganaTleba. SesaZloa dabrunebis Semdeg samxedro
samsaxurSic ki imsaxuros, Tumca ufro samoqalaqo
ganxriT. amis didi survili aqvs.
ratom gadawyviteT samxedro yofiliyaviT, es
iyo Segnebuli nabiji Tu sxva profesiazec oc-
nebobdiT?
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maSin sxva dro iyo da rTuli iyo am arCevanis ga­
keTeba. eSmaki da `xuligani~ vaJkaci viyavi da Cem­
ma ojaxma gadawyvita, rom samxedro disciplina
dadebiT rols Seasrulebda Cems CamoyalibebaSi.
ase Cavabare samxedro akademiaSi. es iyo Cemi didi
survilic. Cemi biZa generali iyo da albaT, am faq­
tormac iqonia Cemze garkveuli gavlena.
ramdenad rTulia samxedro cxovreba da ra aris
dadebiTi am profesiaSi?
rTuli SeiZleba dasawyisSia, mere ukve es profesia
Sens bunebaSi da Seni cxovrebis ritmSi jdeba. am
arCevanis Semdeg yalibdebi, rogorc vaJkaci. ar­
cerT profesias ar vayeneb Seuracxyofas, magram
samxedro cxovreba sul sxvaa. es yvelaferi sisxl­
Si unda gqondes. CemTvis sirTule mxolod ojaxi­
dan Sors yofna da maTi monatrebaa. gansakuTrebiT
maSin, rodesac samSvidobo misiiT Seni qveynidan
Sors, cxel wertilSi imyofebi.
Cemi samsaxuri garkveuli adrenalinia. saxlSic
ki dilidan iseTi mxedruli ganwobiT vdgebi, rom
ojaxis wevrebi Cems xmamaRal saubars aproteste­
ben. Tumca mainc yvelas da yvelafers gamococx­
lebuls vtoveb da ise gavdivar saxlidan
karieris dasawyisSi Tu elodiT rom amdens mi-
aRwevdiT?
maSin sxva sistema da sxva jari iyo. roca 17 wlis
viyavi warmoudgeneli iyo dRevandelobaze fiqri.
Tumca Cemma kurselebma da me iseTi dro da situa­
ciebi gamoviareT, iseTi oTxwliani saswavlo peri­
odi, rom dRes TiTqmis yvela sakmaod warmatebuli
oficeria.
roca me da Cemi megobrebi vsaubrobT maSindel da
dRevandel jarze, yovelTvis avRniSnavT, rom Se­
darebac ki ar SeiZleba.
bolo periodSi axali kursadmTavrebuli ofi­
crebi prezidentma rom daasaCuqra, iqve videqiT,
kolegebi erTad da vxumrobdiT, xelaxla xom ar
Cagvebarebina Tavdacvis akademiaSi.
dRes rasac miaRwieT, es Tqveni karieris maqsi-
mumia?
Cemi didi survilia, rodesac davbrundebi isev
sabrZolo qvedanayofSi vimsaxuro, isev im miznis
misaRwevad, rac mTels qveyanasa da mTavarsardals
aqvs dasaxuli _ es aris Cemi qveynis gaerTianeba.
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I think she’s happier than me, as I’ll spend more time at home
than I used to before due to my job. What is more important is
that she is going to get relevant education in this direction. When
we return maybe she will start working at the military structure
only as a civilian. At least she is very eager.
Why did you decide to go in the military? Was it a conscious step
or did you dream of choosing another profession?
I was very young when I became a soldier. The circumstances
were quite different and it was very difficult to make a choice. I
was very naughty boy and my family decided that military disci-
pline would be very useful in the formation of my character. My
uncle was a general. I think that this factor had some influence
on my decision as well.
Is military life difficult and what are the positive sides of this pro-
fession?
It might be difficult from the very beginning… Then this profes-
sion fits in with your nature and lifestyle. This choice makes you
become a brave man. I don’t want to insult any other professions,
but military life is something very different. You must have this
bred in the bone. The only difficulty I experience is to be away
from the family and to miss them, especially when you are far
away from your country performing a peacekeeping mission in
the conflict zone.
My job is about adrenaline. When I get up in the morning I speak
so loudly that my family members protest my commanding voice.
But before go out I leave everyone and everything alive and joy-
ful.
Did you expect that you would achieve such success in your ca-
reer?
The system and the army were quite different then. I was 17 years
old and it was impossible to think about the future. My course
mates and I passed though this four-year period and all of them
are successful officers today.
When my friends and I are discussing the army today we always
stress that it just can’t be compared.
When the President awarded the new graduate officers I was
standing with my colleagues and we were joking about passing in
the Defence Academy once more.
Is this the height of your career?
My biggest wish is to return to the combat unit again to fight for
the common goal of our country and our Commander-in-Chief
– the reunification of my country. I am always ready to serve my
country in any part of the world.
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istoria da Tanamedroveoba
Past and Present

`...da me vyviri afxazeTi Cemi!~

AND I CRY – ABKHAZIA!

mindia arabuli, malxaz Tofuria

Mindia Arabuli, malkhaz topuria

1992-93 wlebSi afxazeTis konfliqtma umTavresi gadasaWreli problema datova - teri-

toriuli mTlianobis aRdgena. TxuTmeti wlis Semdeg am brZolebis uSualo monawilee-
bi da TviTmxilvelebi kidev erTxel ixseneben im epizodebs, romlis drosac mebr-
Zolebma naTlad aCvenes qarTuli utexi suli da Tavganwirva. Cveni nomris stumrebi
arian rezervis maiori mamuka navdaraSvili da operatori daviT kviJinaZe.

The Abkhazian Conflict of 1992-1993 has left one main thing to be done – restoration of ter-
ritorial integrity. After 15 years, eyewitnesses and war veterans recall those episodes
during which the warriors clearly demonstrated the unbreakable Georgian spirit and
courage. Guests of this edition are retired Major Mamuka Navdarashvili and cameraman
Davit Kvijinadze.

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Mamuka Navdarashvili mamuka navdaraSvili

Major (retired) rezervis maiori

Profession: Sculprot profesiiT moqandake
Head of “Orbi” Battalion batalion “orbis” meTauris moadgile.

My friend and I arrived in Sukhumi during the first days of the war;
the second half of August. We encountered serious resistance from
the enemy after the Tamishi Bridge was blown up. After this, the
“Orbi” battalion took part in military operations until the end of
the war.
me da Cemi megobrebi omis pirvelive dReebSi CavediT
soxumSi, es iyo agvistos meore naxevari. tamiSze
xidis afeTqebis Semdeg seriozul winaaRmdegobas
wavawydiT da Semdeg batalioni `orbi~ bolo dRee­
bamde monawileobda sabrZolo operaciebSi.

Based on the intelligence information, we knew that enemy force
was going to attack from the sea and on land. On the 16th of March,
we received information that a 25-man enemy team had broken the
line at Gumista, moved to rear, and had taken position in one of the
buildings in Achadara village. Before this, they had annihilated one
of the battalions of Sukhumi’s twenty-third brigade. We received the
command to destroy the enemy and take the heights. Our signalman
had detected the enemy’s radio frequency and heard that they where
requesting additional forces to reinforce the bridgehead. At 1400, we
started the assault with approximately 30 soldiers. We were armed
with grenade launchers and machine guns. At each stage, we faced
fierce resistance. At each step, we saw destroyed military technique
and dead soldiers. After two hours Achadara was fully cleared of
enemy forces and the diversion group was destroyed.
martis dasawyisSi, dazvervis informaciiT vi­co­
diT, rom mowinaaRmdege Setevis ganxorciele­
bas apirebda rogorc xmeleTidan aseve zRvidan.
16 marts miviReT brZaneba rom, mowinaaRmdegis
ocdaxuTkacianma jgufma gaarRvia frontis xazi
gumisTaze, gadmovida zurgSi, sofel aCadaraSi
da erT-erT sacxovrebel saxlSi gamagrda. maT
manamde gaanadgures soxumis 23-e brigadis erT_
erTi batalionis mebrZolebi. Cven dagvevala maT
mier dakavebuli simaRlis dabruneba da mtris
ganadgureba. Cvenma radistma daafiqsira maTi
sixSire da moismina Tu rogor iTxovdnen damate­
biT Zalebs placdarmis gasamagreblad. Seteva

After inspecting the dead soldiers we found out that all of them had
ID’s issued by the Abkhazian Ministry of Defense, which identi-
fied them as Russian army soldiers. Most of them were Russian
citizens, Cossack and North Caucasians. Evidently, the commander
of the diversion group was a career Russian officer, with a Russian
Officer’s ID issued by the Russian Ministry of Defense. I want to
remark that this operation ended without any losses for the Geor-
gian battalion.

Simultaneously, each front line position was fortified. In spite of

big losses, there was no panic by the Georgian side. The Abkkhaz-
ian attacks by sea and land failed. At the same time, there was an
exchange of fire over the Gumista. Enemy units that crossed the
river Gumista were totally annihilated. There was not any attack
from Abkhazian side until Sukhumi occupied. Considering the ex-
isting circumstances, we had to attack with full forces. But, due to
the large number of casualties it was impossible. I want to mention
that the enemy was fully demoralized and they did not establish a
defensive line.

I want to recall the Gantiadi-Leselidze battles, where I was wounded

by fragmentation from a grenade. We had to fight against a confedera-
tion of militants. Following this battle we spent 16 days in the forest,
to the rear of the enemy. There were several negotiations with the Ab-
khazian side regarding our withdrawal. During the first talks first-aid
was provided by the Abkhazian Psou checkpoint commander and, of
his own initiative, he gave me medicine for my wounded friends.

I hope that Georgians and Abkhazians will always find common

grounds which we have proved many times. My friends and I, the
Georgian veterans will be always together with our Georgian Army.

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daviwyeT daaxloebiT dRis or saaTze, romelSic
vmonawileobdiT ocdaaTamde kaci. SeiaraRebaSi
gvqonda yumbarmtyorcnebi da avtomaturi iaraRi.
yovel win gadadgmul nabijze gvxvdeboda didi wi­
naaRmdegoba, gvxvdeboda maT mier ganadgurebuli
teqnika da daRupuli Cveni meomrebi. ori saaTis
Semdeg sofeli aCadara mTlianad iqna gawmendili
mowinaaRmdegis Zalebisagan da diversiuli jgufi
ganadgurebuli iqna.
cxedrebis daTvalierebis Semdgom maT aRmoaCndaT
afxazeTis Tavdacvis saministros mier gacemuli
piradobis damadasturebeli mowmobebi, romelSic
pirdapir iyo miTiTebuli rom isini ruseTis armi­
is meomrebi iyvnen. umetesoba ruseTis moqalaqe,
ZiriTadad kazakebi da Crdilo kavkasielebi. sava­
raudod am diversiuli jgufis meTauri ruseTis
armiis kadris oficeri iyo, romelsac aRmoaCnda
ruseTis Tavdacvis saministros, oficris pirado­
bis mowmoba. minda aRvniSno, rom es operacia Cveni
batalionisTvis udanakargod dasrulda.
imavdroulad, frontis xazze yvela pozicia
gamagrebuli iyo da miuxedavad didi danakarge­
bisa qarTul mxares aranairi panika ar arse­
bobda. afxazebis Seteva zRvaze, iseve rogorc
xmeleTze warumateblad dasrulda. paralelu­
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rad gumisTaze gamudmebiT mimdinareobda poz­
iciuri srolebi. mowinaaRmdegis sxva jgufebic,
romlebmac gadmolaxes mdinare gumisTa, srulad
ganadgurda. soxumis dacemamde seriozuli Set­
eva maTi mxridan aRar ganxorcielebula. am situ­
aciidan gamomdinare Cven unda Segvetia mTeli
frontiT, magram didi danakargebis gamo es Seu­
Zlebeli aRmoCnda. Tumca aqve minda aRvniSno,
rom mowinaaRmdege mTlianad iyo demoralizire­
buli da maT aRar gaaCndaT aranairi TavdacviTi
zRude. aqve minda gavixseno ganTiadi-leseliZis
brZolebi, romlis drosac daviWeri yumbarmty­
orcnis namsxvrevebiT. maSin gviwevda brZola
konfederaciis `boevikebTan~. am brZolis Sem­
deg Teqvsmeti dRe-Ramis ganmavlobaSi vimyofe­
bodiT tyeSi, mtris zurgSi. ramdenjerme Sedga
molaparakeba afxazur mxaresTan Cveni gamosv­
lis Sesaxeb, pirveli molaparakebis dros fsous
saguSagos afxazma meTaurma aRmomiCina pirveli
samedicino
daxmareba da Tavisi iniciativiT gamatana medika­
mentebi daWrili megobrebisaTvis. imeds gamovTqvam
rom, qarTvelebi da afxazebi yovelTvis gamovnaxavT
saerTo enas da brZolebis dros araerTxel dagvimt­
kicebia es. Cemi da Cemi megobrebis mxridan veterani
meomrebi qarTul armias gverdiT daviudgebiT.
Davit Kvijinadze
Graduated from Tbilisi State University,
Faculty of History.
Since 1992 works for “Reuters” as a cam-
era-man. During the conflicts in Abkha-
zia, Samachablo Region, Karabakh and
Chechnya he filmed unique videos. Pres-
ent time Mr. Davit works for television
“Sakartvelo”.
I recall March 15-17, 1993 with pride and sorrow, when
I joined our forces from the so called “new district” to
Gudauta, which had been already occupied by the en-
emy, to film a documentary.
I cannot forget the news coverage prepared by my Rus-
sian colleagues announced in daily news broadcasts on
March 16th that Sokhumi was occupied by Georgians.
They could not believe that Sokhumi could be regained
by Georgians.
In the shots filmed by me one can clearly see the losses
of enemy after fighting on the territory of “new district”
and Gudauta. As we found out later, they lost about 800
“Boeviks” and a large amount of equipment. During
these fights, our warriors regained all the above men-
tioned territories. Destabilization and panic entirely cov-
ered the enemy force. It was clear that the fast counterat-
tack could bring real positive results to our side, but due
to some reasons, which I did not know, Georgian forces
could not move further.
daviT kviJinaZe
istorikosi
1992 wlidan muSaobs saagento “roiterSi”
teleoperatorad. mas gadaRebuli aqvs
unikaluri kadrebi, rogorc afxazeTsa da
samaCabloSi, aseve yarabaxsa da CeCneT-
Si. amJamad telekompania “saqarTveloSi”
muSaobs.
siamayiT da tkiviliT vixseneb 1993 wlis 15-17
marts, rodesac Cvens mebrZolebTan erTad momi­
wia axali raionidan, romelic dakavebuli hqon­
daT mowinaaRmdege Zalebs, gumisTamde gadaadg­
ileba da masalis gadaReba.
ar SeiZleba ar gavixseno Cemi rusi kolegebis
mier momzadebuli siuJetebi, romlebic sain­
formacio saSualebebiT 16 marts iuwyebodnen,
rom soxumi aRebulia da gawmendilia qarTuli
qvedanayofebisgan. maT ver warmoedginaT sox­
umis gadarCena qarTvelTa mier.
Cems mier gadaRebul kadrebSi kargad Cans axali
raionisa da gumisTis mimdebare teritoriaze
brZolis Sedegad mowinaaRmdegisaTvis miyen­
ebuli danakargebi. rogorc Semdgom gairkva
mowinaaRmdegem cocxali Zalis saxiT dakarga
rvaasamde `boeviki~, agreTve ganadgurebuli iyo
didi raodenobiT mZime teqnika. zemoTxsenebul
raionebSi yvela Zveli pozicia daibrunes Cvenma
mebrZolebma. mowinaaRmdegis ZalebSi sruli de­
stabilizacia da panika sufevda. aSkara iyo, rom
swrafi kontrSeteva umokles droSi realur
Sedegebs moutanda qarTul mxares, magram CemT­
vis gaurkveveli mizezebis gamo, Cveni SenaerTe­
bis winsvla SeCerebul iqna.
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am brZolebSi yvela qvedanayofi maqsimalurad mo­
tivirebuli iyo da didi SemarTebiT ibrZoda. unda
aRiniSnos batalion `Savnabadas~ gansakuTrebuli
roli, romelmac udidesi gardatexa Seitana gadam­
wyvet momentSi; artileristebis profesionalizmi,
romlebmac moaxerxes mowinaaRmdegis ZiriTadi Za­
lebis brZolaSi CarTvamde ganadgureba. ar SeiZle­
ba ar aRiniSnos adgilobrivi batalionebis Tavgan­
wiruli brZola sakuTari qalaqis gadasarCenad.
yvela im konfliqts romelsac vaSuqebdi, Tan ax­
lda rusi samxedroebis uSualo monawileoba, ma­
gram gansxvavebiT CeCneTisa da yarabaxis omebisa,
afxazeTSi rus samxedroebs gverds umSvenebdnen
sxvadasxva jurisa da tipis `boevikebi~, romlebic
mogvianebiT CeCneTSi sxvadasxva mxares warmoad­
gendnen. is xalxi vinc afxazeTSi Cvens winaaRmdeg
ibrZoda mogvianebiT Cemi profesiuli movaleobis
Sesrulebisas CeCneTSi vnaxe. maT Soris savele me­
Taurebi Samil basaevi da aslanbek ismailovi. Cemda
gasakvirad ismailovma sinanulic ki gamoxata afx­
azeTSi qarTvelebis winaaRmdeg brZolis gamo.
pirvel rigSi minda aRvniSno, rom im dros saqarT­
velos jari realurad ar hyavda. maSindeli Cveni
SeiaraRebuli formirebebi ZiriTadaT moxalisee­
bi iyvnen da miuxedavad maTi vaJkacobisa da Tav­
ganwirvisa ar arsebobda saerTo mmarTveloba, rac
bolo jamSi aisaxa omis Sedegebze.
rac Seexeba dRes qarTul SeiaraRebul Zalebs,
romlis gadaRebac miwevs, sruliad gansxvavebuli
suraTia. kargad aRWurvil, Tanamedrove stan­
dartebis armiaSi igrZnoba erTiani xelmZRvanelo­
ba da swrafva momavali gamarjvebebisaken.
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During these fights all our units had huge motivation and
will. Especially, I want to mention the decisive role of the
battalion “Shavnabada” in its finest moment, also the pro-
fessionalism of our artillerists which destroyed the major
part of enemy forces before they arrived on the battle-field.
It is worthy to note the dedication of local battalions pro-
tecting their home-town until the last minute.
The Russian military were directly involved in all conflicts
which I covered, but unlike Karabakh and Chechnya, in
Abkhazia and Samachablo there were “Boeviks” of differ-
ent nationalities beside the Russians fighting against us,
who later in Chechnya stood on different sides. Later I saw
field commanders Shamil Basaev and Aslanbek Ismailov
who fought against us in Abkhazia in Chechnya. This
might sound surprising, but Aslanbek Ismailov even told
me that he felt sorry about his participation in the Abkhaz-
ian conflict against Georgians.
First of all I want to say that at the time of the Abkhazian
war Georgia did not have a real army. Our armed units
were mostly manned by volunteers, but there was no orga-
nized command staff and the bravery of our men could not
change the final results of war.
The Georgian Armed Forces which I film today is a differ-
ent story. In a well equipped and modern army everyone
can witness the leadership and aspiration for future victo-
ries.
2000 samxedro mosamsaxuris saxeliT minda damdegi
Soba-axali weli mogilocoT.

mesame qveiTi brigadis piradi Semadgenloba 2008

wels eraySi xvdeba da aqedan gigzavniT mokiTxvebs da
saukeTeso survilebs. momavali weli qarTveli erisTvis
winsvlis, aRmavlobis da Cveni sanukvari ocnebis _
teritoriuli mTlianobis aRdgenis weliwadi yofiliyos.

Savleg tabataZe
mesame qveiTi brigadis meTauri
maiori

I want to wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in

the name of 2000 Georgian peacekeepers. 3rd Infantry Brigade
personnel celebrates 2008 year in Iraq and sends you the best
regards and wishes from here. I wish that 2008 be the year of
progress and prosperity and may our dream - restoration of
territorial integrity - come true.

maj Shavleg Tabatadze

3rd Infantry Brigade Commander

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nano kvinitaZe:
mamis ocneba asrulda _
saqarTvelo Tavisufalia
Salva londariZe
Shalva Londaridze
qarTveli generlis, warmatebuli mTavar-
sardlisa da patriotis giorgi kvinitaZis
qaliSvili qalbatoni nano kvinitaZe sa-
frangeTis moqalaqea da amJamad parizSi
cxovrobs. igi amaswinad TbilisSi Camovi-
da da xanmokle eqskursis Semdeg, general
giorgi kvinitaZis 20 nomers ewvia. swored
aq aris ganTavsebuli Tavdacvis saminis-
tros centraluri ofisi.
sapatio stumars Tavdacvis ministris pirvel
moadgilesTan baTu quTeliasTan erTad, gaer­
Tianebuli Stabis ufrosma, polkovnikma zaza
gogavam umaspinZla. mogvianebiT ki qalbaton
nanosTan gasaubrebis pativi Cvenc gvergo.
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Ms. Nano Kvinitadze, the daughter of the
Georgian general, the successful com-
mander-in-chief and patriot Giorgi Kvini-
tadze, is a citizen of France and lives in
Paris. Recently she visited Tbilisi and after
short retrospective journey visited 20, Gen-
eral Kvinitadze Street, the office of the
Ministry of Defence of Georgia.
The honorable guest was met by Deputy Defence Minister,
Batu Kutelia and Chief of Defense of the Armed Forces of
Georgia, Zaza Gogava. Later we were favored by an interview
with her.
Nano Kvinitadze – During our emigration to France my fa-
Nano Kvinitadze:
The dream of my father
came true - Georgia is Free
ther had an intensive relationship with Georgian and other
nationality representatives. Together with our nationals, our
family visited Dagestanians, Chechenians, Armenians, and
Ukrainians. The theme of conversation of my father and his
visitors unknown; I was too young and not present during the
conversations.
Probably, at this time General Kvinitadze with his comrades
was discussing the ways of liberating Georgia from Bolshe-
viks…
NK -- It is possible, because the great desire of my father was
return to free Georgia. I still hear his words: ”Not today and
not tomorrow, but the time when Bolsheviks will be over-
thrown will come and Georgia will be free”.
Your emigrated family was visited also by political characters
for certain…
NK -- My family was visited by many persons, but the father
always was against partial activities. Notwithstanding that in
emigration he repeatedly received offers of such character, he
always refused partial activities.
It is known, that Kakutsa Cholokashvili frequently visited Gen-
eral Kvinitadze.
NK -- Father was a kind person with a great sense of humor.
As a hospitable person he liked to have a traditional lunch
with guests accompanied by songs and dances. His favorite
song was “Mravaljamier”.
Regarding visits of Kakutsa Cholokashvili – he was frequent
guest in the house.
I remember perfectly: He was a tall and handsome man and
always attracted women’s attention, everyone tried to have
close relations with him.
nano kvinitaZe _ safrangeTSi, emigraciaSi yof­
nis dros, mamas intensiuri urTierToba hqon­
da, rogorc qarTvel ise sxva eris warmomad­
genlebTan. TanamemamuleebTan erTad xSirad
Cvens ojaxSi daRestnelebi, CeCnebi, somxebi da
ukrainelebi ikribebodnen. raze saubrobdnen
mama da stumrebi CemTvis ucnobia, radgan patara
viyavi da am saubrebs ar veswrebodi.
am dros SesaZloa batoni giorgi Tanamoaz-
reebTan erTad bolSevikebisgan saqarTvelos
gaTavisuflebis gegmasac ganixilavda...
SesaZloa, radgan mamis sanukvari ocneba damo­
ukidebel saqarTveloSi dabruneba iyo. TiTqos
axlac Camesmis misi sityvebi: `dRes da xval ara,
magram mova dro, rodesac bolSevikebis reJimi
aucileblad daemxoba da saqarTvelo kvlav Tav­
isufali iqneba~.
emigraciaSi mcxovreb Tqvens ojaxs albaT
politikuri personaJebic stumrobdnen?
Cvens ojaxSi Zalian bevri adamiani ikribeboda,
Tumca mama partiuli saqmianobis yovelTvis
kategoriuli winaaRmdegi iyo.
miuxedavad imisa, rom man emigraciaSi yofnisas
amis Sesaxeb araerTi SeTavazeba miiRo, politi­
kur saqmianobas yovelTvis gaurboda.
ramdenadac cnobilia, general kvinitaZis
xSiri stumari iyo qaquca ColoyaSvili
mama mxiaruli kaci iyo da didi iumoris grZno­
ba hqonda. Zalian uyvarda stumrebi da maTTan
sadili, romelsac qarTuli simRera da cekva
gansakuTrebul elfers matebda. mamas gamor­
Ceulad, simRera `mravalJamieri~ uyvarda.
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qaquca ColoyaSvils rac Seexeba, igi mamas xSir­
ad naxulobda. kargad maxsovs: maRali, warmosa­
degi kaci iyo ris gamoc, qaquca yovelTvis man­
dilosanTa yuradRebis centrSi eqceoda, masTan
siaxloves yvela cdilobda.
SvilebTan urTierTobisas rogori iyo?
mama Tbili adamiani iyo, me da Cems debs patarao­
bisas xSirad gveTamaSeboda.
banqos TamaSi uyvarda da sakmaod kargi moTama­
Sec iyo. gansakuTrebiT kargad ki brijs TamaSob­
da. maxsovs, rogor maswavla mamam es TamaSi. maSin
patara viyavi, ase cxra wlis viqnebodi.
roca wamovizardeT, mamam Cvens ganaTlebas moh­
kida xeli. Svilebis yuradRebas gansakuTrebiT
saqarTvelos istoriis codnaze amaxvilebda.
mama Zalian eklesiuri adamianic iyo. kvira ise
ar gavidoda, rom eklesiaSi ar waveyvaneT.
misTvis damaxasiaTebeli iyo saocrad didi es­
Tetiurobac. igi yovelTvis formaSi maxsovs.
gaRviZebisTanave loginidan adgeboda da saku­
Tari Tavis mowesrigebas iwyebda. or wuTSi ise
gamoiyureboda, rom adamians egoneboda stum­
rad midiso.
sakuTari saqmianobis Sesaxeb, Tu giyvebodaT
raimes?
samwuxarod mamis samxedro samsaxuris Sesax­
eb CemTvis naklebad aris cnobili. ojaxi, rom
saqarTvelodan gaixizna, eqvsi Tvis viyavi.
mamas arc Semdeg wlebSi usaubria mis warsul
saqmianobaze.
samSoblodan ramdenime aTasi kilometris mo­
SorebiT cxovreba, emigraciaSi albaT bevr
siZnelesTan iyo dakavSirebuli...
samSoblodan moSorebiT cxovreba, rogorc
sulierad, ise fizikurad yovelTvis Znelia.
mamas Cveni dazianebuli fexsacmelebi xSirad
Tavad SeukeTebia.
ramdenime weli qarxanaSi muSadac ki muSaobda.
dilis xuT saaTze dgeboda, rom samsaxurSi mis­
uliyo. dagvianebas an zerele muSaobas aravin
apatiebda.
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How could you characterize relations between father and chil-
dren?
NK -- Father was a warm person; he had been playing with my
sisters and me.
He liked to play cards and was a good gambler, and played
bridge especially well. I remember because he has taught me
how to play. I was nine years old then.
When we became older, father tried to give us valuable educa-
tion. He paid particular attention to the history of Georgia.
Father was a committed Christian and each Sunday we went
to church.
Great esthetical abilities characterized him. He was always in
fit shape. From the moment of getting up he put himself in
order. After a couple of minutes he looked as if he was going
for a visit.
Did he tell anything concerning his business?
NK -- Unfortunately I know almost nothing about father’s
military tasks. When my family emigrated I was six months
old. Father did not like to talk about his military activities,
even afterwards.
It was hard to live far from homeland and emigrant’s life was
also not easy…
NK -- It is difficult to live far from your homeland physically
as well as spiritually. Father often repaired my spoiled foot-
wear. He worked as worker at a factory for several years. He
got up at 5 o’clock in the morning. Nobody would forgive
him to come late and disregard to work was not forgiven to
anybody. He walked 3 kilometers before work and back. And
it continued until one magnanimous English neighbor pre-
sented him with a bicycle.
Probably mother had to carry out a tough job too.
NK -- Definitely, she helped father with the maintenance
of the family. Mother belonged to a nobiliary branch of
the family of Ilia ChavChavadze, but she did not hesitate
to do heavy work. She had learned to make Matsoni at my
grandmother Babale Brolashvili and making Matsoni she
sustained the family. Our grandmother emigrated with us
from Georgia.
Whether it is known for you as your parents have got acquaint-
ed and whether you know history of their love?

NK -- My parents met at a reception. Details of their acquain-
tance are not known to me, but father was older than mother
by 15 years. The evidence of their true love is us -- me and my
two sisters Ivditi and Tamar. I’m the younger daughter.
Could you tell about your fathers parents?
NK -- As an evidence of true love they had six children: one
son and five daughters. Grandfather was a very intelligent
man; he knew 12 languages, both European and Caucasian
languages.
Unfortunately the life of your father has developed thus, that he
could not return to Georgia.
NK -- Regrettably it is true, but I would like to mention that
the dream of my father came true - Georgia is Free.
samuSao adgilamde fexiT sami kilometri unda
gaevlo, samic saxlSi dabrunebisas. ase gagr­
Zelda manam, sanam mamas erTma RvTisnierma ing­
liselma mezobelma velosipedi ar aCuqa.
mZime Sroma albaT dedasac uwevda...
ra Tqma unda, mamas ojaxis rCenaSi nawilobriv
dedac exmareboda. dedaCemi warmoSobiT ilia
WavWavaZis Stos ganekuTvneboda, Sromas ar Tak­
ilobda. piriqiT, dedam mawvnis damzadebac ki
iswavla da periodulad ase virCendiT Tavs...
mawvnis damzadeba dedas Cemma ZiZam babale
brelaSvilma aswavla. igi Cvens ojaxs saqarT­
velodan gaxizvnis dros gamohyva da bolomde
CvenTan cxovrobda.
Tqveni mSoblebis sasiyvarulo istoria Tu
aris TqvenTvis cnobili. rogor gaicnes erT-
maneTi?
Cemma mSoblebma, giorgi kvinitaZem da mariam ma­
yaSvilma, erTmaneTi erT-erT wveulebaze gaic­
nes. detalebi CemTvis ucnobia, magram vici, rom
mama dedaze TxuTmeti wliT didi iyo.
didi siyvarulis Sedegad maT Cems garda kidev
ori Svili: ivdiTi da Tamari SeeZinaT. me yvelaze
nabolara viyavi.
mamaTqvenis mSoblebis Sesaxeb, Tu SegiZliaT
raime gviamboT?
didi siyvarulis Sedegad maT eqvsi Svili, erTi
vaJi da xuTi qaliSvili SeeZinaT.
babua uaRresad ganaTlebuli kaci yofila.
marto is, rom man Tormeti ena icoda, ukve bevr
rameze metyvelebs. evropulTan erTad ivane
kvinitaZe kavkasiur enebsac SesaniSnavad flob­
da.
samwuxarod mamaTqvenis cxovreba ise wari-
marTa, rom man samSobloSi dabruneba veRar
moaxerxa...
samwuxarod asea, Tumca imasac vityvi, rom mamis
sanukvari ocneba axdenilia. saqarTvelo kvlav
Tavisufalia!
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strong army strong state
Zlieri jari _

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Zlieri qveyana

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 ,,samSoblos siyvaruliT
Cadeqi qveynis samsaxurSi!~
mimoxilva/Review

nana inwkirveli
Nana Intskirveli

saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministros The PR Campaign “With the love of

sazogadoebriv saqmeTa departamen-
tis mier organizebuli PR aqcia, ,,sam-
Soblos siyvaruliT Cadeqi qveynis
samsaxurSi” TiTqmis mTeli saqarT-
velos masStabiT ganxorcielda.
Georgia serve your country” orga-
nized by the Public Affairs Depart-
ment of The Ministry of Georgia,
was carried out almost in entire
Georgia.

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“With the love of Georgia _
serve your country”
The PR Campaign “With the love of Georgia - serve your
country” organized by the Public Affairs Department of
The Defense Ministry of Georgia, was carried out through-
out most of the Georgian State. The plan was to recruit
Georgian citizens into Contract Military Service. The PR
Group consisted of 15 people. Among them were person-
nel from The Public Affairs Department and several offi-
cers, sergeants and corporals from contract service.
The recruiting action started in the Kakheti region and fin-
ished in the Adjara region. Those participating in this event
aqcia sakontraqto samxedro samsaxurSi saqarT­
velos moqalaqeebis mosazidad daigegma. pr
jgufi 15 kacisagan dakompleqtda, romelSic
sazogadoebriv saqmeTa departamentis Tanam­
SromlebTan erTad, sakontraqto samsaxurSi
myofi ramdenime oficeri, serJanti da kapral­
ic Sedioda.
sazogadoebasTan Sexvedrebi kaxeTis regio­
nidan daiwyo da aWaraSi dasrulda. aqciis
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monawileebi TiToeul qalaqsa da sofelSi
kardakar dadiodnen da moqalaqeebs sakon­
traqto samsaxuris pirobebs acnobdnen. kax­
eTSi, qvemo qarTlSi, mcxeTa-mTianeTSi, Sida
qarTlSi, raWa-leCxuSi, svaneTSi, guriasa da
aWaraSi pr jgufis gamoCenas erTnairi interes­
iT xvdebodnen. mosaxleobasTan urTierToba
marto pirobebis gacnobiTa da sainformacio
bukletebis gadacemiT ar amoiwureboda. dain­
teresebuli adamianebi bevr SekiTxvas svamdnen,
xalxTan sasaubrod gasuli jariskacebi maT
Rirseulad pasuxobdnen da sakuTar magaliTze
xsnidnen im privilegiebs, rac samxedro samsax­
uris am formas gaaCnia.
went door-to-door in each city and village informing people
sakontraqto samsaxurSi yofnis survili about the conditions of Contract Military Service. The
araerTma axalgazrdam gamoTqva.msurvelebi PR Group was met with the great interest everywhere – in
mzad iyvnen pirdapir quCidan wasuliyvnen reg­ Kakheti, Kvemo Kartli, Mtskheta-Mtianeti, Shida Kartli,
istraciis adgilebSi. Racha-Lechkhumi, Svaneti, Guria and Adjara. Communi-
cation with the local population included not only inform-
dasavleT saqarTveloSi yvelaze metad axali ing them about conditions and handing them booklets, but
me-5 brigadis Seqmnis faqtiT dainteresd­ interested people asked alot of questions that had to be
nen. mosaxleoba miiCnevs, rom axali brigada, answered. Soldiers answered each question with pride and

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explained the privileges of performing Contract Military
Service – according to their own experience. Many young
people expressed their desire to serve in Contract Military
Service. They were immediately ready to go to the places of
registration. People living in western Georgia were mostly
interested in information concerning the formation of the
5th Brigade. People believe that the new brigade, which
will be located in Khoni, will partially reduce the unem-
ployment problem through the hiring of 4,000 people.
It is the view of the organizers of this recruiting action that
this kind of recruiting action will produce a positive result
and that direct contact and conversations with people work
better than any advertisement.
The Ministry of Defense of Georgia offers an opportunity
for the citizens of Georgia under age 35 to serve in the
Georgian Armed Forces and invites them to join Contract
Military Service.
During four years, military servants, will receive high sala-
ries, be provided with modern equipment and adequate nu-
trition, enjoy free medical service, receive social and legal
guarantees and will be eligible to participate in peacekeep-
ing operations.
romelic xonSi ganTavsdeba da 4000 samxedro
mosamsaxurezea gaTvlili, dasaqmebis proble­
mas nawilobriv moxsnis.
organizatorebis azriT amgvari aqciebi pozi­
tiuri Sedegis momcemia da xalxTan uSualo
urTierToba, saubrebi nebismier reklamaze
kargad muSaobs...
Tavdacvis saministro 35 wlamde asakis saqarT­
velos moqalaqeebs iwvevs SeiaraRebul ZalebSi
da sTavazobs sakontraqto, profesiuli samx­
edro samsaxuris gavlas. samxedro mosamsaxu­
reebi oTxi wlis ganmavlobaSi miiReben maRal
anazRaurebas, isini uzrunvelyofilni iqnebian
Tanamedrove aRWurvilobiTa da srulfasovani
kvebiT, isargebleben ufaso samedicino momsax­
urebiT, eqnebaT socialuri da samarTlebrivi
dacvis garantiebi da samSvidobo operaciebSi
monawileobis saSualeba.
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`vemsaxurebiT maT,
vinc msaxurobs~

rusudan cimakuriZe
Rusudan Tsimakuridze

sami Tvea qarTul telesivrceSi kidev

erTi telekompania gamoCnda. `saqarTvelo~
sxva televiziebisgan Tavisi formatiT
radikalurad gansxvavdeba. samxedro arxs
sakuTari devizic aqvs _ `vemsaxurebiT
maT, vinc msaxurobs.~ televizia mauwye-
blobas dilis 7 saaTze iwyebs. programe-
bis bade ZiriTadad samxedro Tematikis
dokumentur da mxatvrul filmebs moicavs.
arxze aseve gadis informacia qarTuli
jaris SeiaraRebaSi arsebuli teqnikis
One more TV station has appeared in the Georgian
daniSnulebisa da Semadgenlobis Sesaxeb
airwaves over the past three months. “Sakartvelo” dif-
da socialuri saxis reklamebi.
fers radically from other stations in its format. The
military channel has its own slogan – “We Serve
telekompania `saqarTvelo~ umTavresad samx­
edro mosamsaxureebisaTvis saintereso gadace­
Those Who Serve”. The television starts broadcast-
mebiT aris datvirTuli. saqarTvelos SeiaraRe­
ing at 7 o’clock in the morning. Programming mainly
buli Zalebis samxedro nawilebSi ganTavsebuli consists of documentaries and feature films with mili-
televizorebi, samxedroebis TxovniT, 33-e deci­ tary themes. On this channel, you can get information
metrul sixSirezea CarTuli. about the technical characteristics of military equip-
ment in Georgian Armed Forces as well as social ad-
rogorc Tavad amboben, samxedro arxis tele­ vertisements.
sivrceSi gamoCenis Semdeg bevri saintereso in­
formacia miiRes da survili aqvT, eTerSi ufro TV company “Sakartvelo” mostly broadcasts pro-
meti qarTuli telegadacema ixilon. grams of interest to military servicemen. In response
to requests by the military servicemen, television sets
giorgi SaviZe: `meoTxe qveiTi brigadis javSan- were installed in the military units and “Sakartvelo”
satanko batalionis serJanti: `saqarTvelo~-s broadcasts on the 33rd decimeter frequency.
aqtiuri mayurebeli var. informaciulobiT
gamoirCeva gadacemebi samxedro swavlebebis As they say, they now receive more interesting infor-
Sesaxeb. kargi iqneba, Tu telekompaniis xelmZ­ mation since the military channel has appeared on
Rvaneloba momavalSi mayurebels `yazarmis~ ti­ Georgian airwaves. They wish to see more Georgian
pis teleproeqts SesTavazebs.~ TV programs on air.
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“We Serve those
Who Serves”

George Shavidze – Sergeant seving in the Fourth In-
fantry Brigade Tank Battalion: “I am an active specta-
tor of the TV “Sakartvelo”. The TV programs on mili-
tary training are very informative. It would be better
if the TV company offers its viewers TV projects like
“Kazarma” in the future”.
Zaza Gelashvili - Sergeant serving in the Fourth In-
fantry Brigade Tank Battalion: “I welcome the estab-
lishment of this television station. Currently, the most
zaza gelaSvili: `meoTxe qveiTi brigadis
javSan-satanko batalionis serJanti: `am tele­
viziis Camoyalibebas mivesalmebi. axla yvelaze
metad qarTuli armiis moraluri mxardaWeraa
saWiro. mimaCnia, rom `saqarTvelo~ xels uwyobs
momavali Taobis azris swori mimarTulebiT
formirebas.~
vasiko donbulovi: `erovnuli saswavlo cen­
tris `krwanisi~-s dacvisa da uzrunvelyofis

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saStabo aseulis kaprali: `telekompaniiT kmay­
ofili var. gansakuTrebiT, samxedro Tematika­
ze momzadebuli gadacemebi momwons. Cems ga­
remocvaSi Zalian bevr adamians vicnob, romelic
`saqarTvelo~-s sistematiurad adevnebs Tvaly­
urs da yoveldRiur samxedro cxovrebas ecnoba.
efeqturia sareklamo rgolebic. aseTi klipebi
sazogadoebas jarisadmi dadebiTad ganawyobs,
zrdis piradi Semadgenlobis sabrZolo motiva­
ciasac.~
nodar arabiZe: `meoTxe qveiTi brigadis javSan-
satanko batalionis serJanti: `telekompania
`saqarTvelo~-s gadacemebi Zalian momwons. am
arxs sistematiurad vuyureb. gansakuTrebiT
xSirad ki mxatvrul filmebs. rogorc rigiT
mayurebels mimaCnia, rom telekompaniam sain­
formacio gadacemebic unda moamzados. am
SemTxvevaSi arxi ufro met auditorias moiz­
idavs.~
saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministrosa da damou­
ki­debel telekompanias Soris gaformebuli
xel­Se­krulebis mixedviT televiziam Tavdacvis
sa­mi­nistros telemomsaxureba 2010 wlamde unda
gauwios.
axali wlidan telekompania sakuTari tele­
produqciis Seqmnaze zrunvas iwyebs. arxze
saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis saxeobebisa
da programebis Sesaxeb mciremetraJiani Semec­
nebiTi gadacemebi gava. aseve eqspertebTan Tana­
mSromlobiT, teleeTerSi samxedro Tematikze
Toq-Souebic gamoCndeba. axlo momavalSi eTer­
Si gava samxedro sainformacio daijesti `Tav­
dacva dRes~. sainformacio gamoSveba Tavdacvis
uwyebaSi mimdinare reformebs da movlenebes
gaaSuqebs.
telekompania `saqarTvelo~ momavali satele­
vizio programebis detalebs mayureblisTvis
siurprizad inaxavs.
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important feature is the moral support provided to the
Georgian Army. I think that the TV company “Sakart-
velo” also contributes to properly informing the future
generation”.
Vasiko Donbulov – Defensive and provisional staff
corporal of the National Training Center “Krtsanisi”:
“I am really satisfied with the TV company. I espe-
cially like programs on military issues. I know a lot of
people around me who watch “Sakartvelo” frequently
and are becoming acquainted with daily military life.
The breaks for advertisements are also very effective.
Such clips make the public attitude very positive to-
wards the Army and increase combat motivation of
the personnel”.
Nodar Arabidze – Sergeant serving in the Fourth In-
fantry Brigade Tank Battalion: “I like the programs of
TV “Sakartvelo” very much. I watch this channel fre-
quently, but I especially like the feature films. As an
ordinary spectator, I consider that the TV company
should prepare news programs as well. In this case,
the channel will attract even more of an audience”.
According to an agreement concluded between the
Ministry of Defence of Georgia and the Independence
TV Company, the television will provide TV service to
the Ministry until 2010.
Beginning next year, the TV Company will start its
own productions. The channel will broadcast short
educational films about the different services of the
Georgian Armed Forces and programs. In coopera-
tion with experts, talk-shows on military issues will be
aired. The military news digest “Defence Today” will
be broadcast in the near future. This news program
will cover the ongoing reforms and events in the de-
fence sphere.
The TV Company “Sakartvelo” plans to keep the rest
of the details on future television programs as a “sur-
prise” for the viewers.
sainformacio dRe
bundesveris akademiaSi
information Day in
bundeswehr academy
daviT joxaZe
DAvid Jokhadze
A presentation about Georgia took place at the Bundeswehr
Military Academy. The presentation was delivered by LTC Zaza
Golodze, a student of the Military Academy.
These kinds of presentations are held once a year. The students’
contingent of the academy is multinational and such events aim
to draw attention to the culture, customs and current situation of
different countries. This year the honor to hold the presentation
was given to Georgia. The presentation about Georgia lasted for 3
hours and consisted of two parts. The first part of the presentation
spoke of the history and culture of Georgia, and the second part
was about the Georgian Armed Forces and on-going reforms in
this sphere.
The presentation was attended by the Deputy Rector of
Bundeswehr Academy, Director of Courses, Admiral Hubertus
von Puttkamer, academy leadership and students of 35 different
germaniis qalaq hamburgSi bundesveris samxedro
akademiaSi saqarTvelos Sesaxeb prezentacia
gaimarTa. prezentacia akademiis studentma vice-
polkovnikma zaza goloZem warmoadgina. prezen­
taciebi bundesveris akademiaSi weliwadSi erTx­
el imarTeba. samxedro saswavlebeli studentTa
kontingentis TvalsazrisiT mravalerovnulia
da msgavsi RonisZiebebi miznad isaxavs sxvadasxva
qveynebis kulturis, tradiciisa da dRevande­
lobis gacnobas. wels sakuTari qveynis wardgenis
saSualeba saqarTvelos mieca. saqarTvelos Ses­
axeb prezentacia sam saaTs gagrZelda da igi ori
nawilisagan Sedgeboda. prezentaciis pirvel
nawilSi warmodgenili iyo saqarTvelos istoria
da kultura, xolo meore nawili mTlianad saqarT­
velos SeiaraRebul Zalebs da am sferoSi ganxor­
cielebul reformebs daeTmo.
prezentacias bundesveris akademiis reqtoris
moadgile, kursebis direqtori, admirali huber­
tus fon putkameri, saswavleblis mmarTveloba
da akademiis kursebze myofi 35 qveynis warmomad­
genlebi daeswrnen. prezentaciaze dasaswrebad
saqarTvelodan generaluri Stabis J-1 departa­
mentis ufrosi general-maiori givi revaziSvili,
saqarTvelos samxedro ataSe germaniaSi maiori
giga babunaSvili da Tavdacvis saministros warmo­
madgenlebi Cavidnen.
admiralma putkamerma prezentaciis dasasruls
ganacxada - „bundesveris akademia aris rogorc
patara gaero. tradiciis mixedviT qveynebis war­
momadgenlebi Tavis qveyanas mokle prezentaciis
saxiT gvacnoben, Tumca aseTi didi sainformacio
dReebis gamarTva iSviaTi gamonaklisia. Tqveni
qveynis warmomadgenels miveciT saSualeba far­
Tod warmoedgina prezentacia saqarTvelos Ses­
axeb. saqarTvelos ase kargad ar vicnobdi. es iyo
pirvelad, rodesac saqarTveloze amdeni infor­
macia miviRe. prezentacia iyo Zalian vrceli,
mravalferovani da aseve iumoriT aRsavse.“
nationalities. Chief J-1Department of Joint Staff, Major-General
Givi Revazishvili, Military Attaché of Georgia in Germany, Major
Babunashvili and representatives from the Defence Ministry of
Georgia attended the presentation as well.
After the presentation Admiral Puttkamer stated, “The academy
of Bundeswehr is like a little UN. According to the tradition,
representatives from various countries introduce their homeland
with the help of short presentations, but it is an exception to hold
informational days as you did. We gave the opportunity to your
representative to deliver a comprehensive presentation about
Georgia. We did not know Georgia well and it was for the first
time that we were informed about it in details. The presentation
was diverse, attractive and enjoyable.”
In the framework of visit, Admiral Hubertus von Puttkamer met
with Chief of J-1, Major-General Givi Revazishvili, and Military
Attaché of Georgia in Germany Major Giga Babunashvili. The
parties discussed military relations, future plans and further
cooperation between countries.
At the end of the day, a Georgian reception was held in the
Bundeswehr Military Academy, where the guests tasted Georgian
wine and national cuisine.

vizitis farglebSi admiral hubertus fon put­

kameri J-1 deparatamentis ufross general-maior
givi revaziSvils da saqarTvelos axal samxedro
ataSes germaniaSi maior giga babunaSvils Sexvda.
mxareebma ori qveynis samxedro urTierTobebis,
samomavlo gegmebisa da TanamSromlobis Sesaxeb
isaubres.

dRis bolos saqarTvelos saxeliT bundesveris

samxedro akademiaSi oficialuri miReba gaimarTa,
sadac stumrebma qarTuli kerZebi da qarTuli
Rvino daagemovnes.

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Cadeqi qveynis samsaxurSi

saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministro 35-wlamde asakis

saqarTvelos moqalaqeebs iwvevs SeiaraRebul ZalebSi da sTavazobs
sakontraqto, profesiuli samxedro samsaxuris gavlas

pirobebi
maRali anazRaureba (550 laridan zemoT)
ianvridan 15 %-iani zrdis perspeqtiva

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