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qarTuli
artileria
www.mod.gov.ge 15 wlisaa
qarTuli artileria 15 wlisaa
saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministros sazogadoebriv saqmeTa departamenti, Seiara­
Rebuli Zalebis popularizaciis mizniT, acxadebs yovelwliur fotokonkurss
Temaze «Cemi jariskaci». konkursSi monawileobis miReba SeuZliaT, rogorc pro­
fesional, aseve moyvarul fotografebs.

The Georgian Artillery konkursi Semdeg nominaciebSi gaimarTeba:

saukeTeso portreti,

Celebrates the 15 Anniversary

saukeTeso kompozicia,
yvelaze dinamiuri kadri,
saukeTeso foto reportaJi.

yvela am nominaciaSi gamovlindeba TiTo gamarjvebuli, romelsac gadaecema fu­

ladi premia. garda amisa dawesebulia mTavari prizi «Cemi jariskaci», romelsac
specialurad Semdgari Jiuri gamoavlens.

konkursSi monawileobis msurvelebma Tavdacvis saministroSi unda warmoadginon

namuSevrebis eleqtronuli versia da «A-4» formatSi dabeWdili fotosuraTi
aranakleb 10 namuSevrisa, 20 martidan 20 aprilamde, Semdeg misamarTze:
Tbilisi, general kvinitaZis quCa #20. sazogadoebriv saqmeTa departamenti,
fotokonkursisaTvis «Cemi jariskaci». tel: 91 06 45, 91 19 63.

Public Affairs Department of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia announces annual Photo Contest
«My Soldier» aimed at popularization of the Georgian Armed Forces. Interested professional and ama-
teur photographers are invited to participate in the contest.

Photo Contest «My Soldier» will be held in the following nominations:

The Best Portrait,
The Best Composition,
The Most Dynamic Shot
The Best Photo Coverage.

The winners in each nomination will be awarded the cash prizes. The best photographer selected by the
jury will receive the special prize «My Soldier».

Photographers interested to take part in the photo contest can submit their entries in electronic and
A4-size format, no less than 10 photos, from March 20 st to April 20 st at the following address:
#20, Gen. Kvinitadze St., Ministry of Defence of Georgia; To Public Affairs Department, for Photo
Contest «My Soldier». tel: 91 06 45, 91 19 63.

fotokonkursi "Cemi jariskaci 2008"

PhotoContest “My Soldier 2008”
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 sarCevi
mTavari Tema
mTavari Tema /main topic
/main topic
artileria-omis RmerTia
Artillery – the God of War

vemsaxurebi saqarTvelos

saqarTvelos Tavdacvis
saministros 4
yovelkvartaluri Jurnali

#1(4). 2008 "me qarTveli samSvidobo

var, romelic yvelaze
Zvirfass _ mSvidobas
Jurnali momzadda icavs"
saqarTvelos Tavdacvis
saministros sazogadoebriv I am a Georgian peacekeeper who
saqmeTa departamentSi. keeps the most precious – Peace

redaqtori: nana inwkirveli mimoxilva /REVIEW 13

Jurnalze muSaobdnen: qarTuli artileriis
rusudan cimakuriZe, 15 wlis iubile
xatia yuraSvili, 15th Anniversary of the
Tea WoniSvili,
nino gogoCiSvili,
Salva londariZe,
georgian Artillery 9
daviT joxaZe, samSvidobo misia
nino rusaZe, Peacekeeping mission
Tea kerZevaZe,
mindia arabuli, serJantma qalebma
malxaz Tofuria, samSvidobo misia
maka gurgeniZe,
Seasrules
Tea ivaniSvili
Women Sergeants Have

JurnalSi dabeWdilia
nina Slamovas
Done their Duty
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review Profile

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veli im dRes, rodesac Family Profession
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mTavari Tema /main topic

artileria-omis RmerTia

mindia arabuli
MINDIA ARABULI

Artillery always had a special place and artileria mudam gansakuTrebuli funqci-
function during wars and conflicts. The ef- urobiT gamoirCeoda sxvadasxva drois did
fectiveness of artillery is based on its accu- omebsa Tu konfliqtur dapirispirebeb-
racy and special training of its staff, which Si. artileriis efeqturoba sizustesa da
directly affects the consequences of dis- specifikur swavlebas emyareba, rasac sabo-
tance combat. loo jamSi didi gardatexa Seaqvs distan-
ciur brZolaSi.
This year, the Georgian Artillery celebrated its fifteenth anni-
wels ukve meTxuTmeted aRiniSna qarTuli artil-
versary. Thus, we visited Commander of the “Dana” division of
eriis dRe. Tanamedrove qarTuli artileriis
the Artillery Brigade, Captain Zurab Tabukashvili, to talk about
Sesaxeb da zogadad artileristobasTan dakav-
Georgian Artillery’s present and future perspectives and devel-
SirebiT sasaubrod Cven saartilerio brigadis _
opment plans. We met with the Captain in the Orpholo shooting
`dana~ divizionis meTaurs, kapitan zurab Tabu-
range, where scheduled exercises were taking place. After step-
kaSvils vestumreT orfolos sasroleTze, sadac
gegmiuri swavleba mimdinareobda. sasroleTze
misvlisTanave wamosulma wnevis talRam migvaxve-
dra, rom es ar iyo kidev erTi standartuli sam-
uSao dRe.

batono kapitano, rogorc vxedav dRes sruliad

ucxo danadgarebi gaqvT velze gamotanili…

diax, dRevandel swavlebaze warmodgenilia `gia-

cindis~ sistemis rusuli buqsirebadi, 152 mm-ni
qvemexi. minda giTxraT, rom dRes pirveli pre-
cendentia, rodesac qarTveli artileristebi
am qvemexidan isvrian. es SeiaraReba datovebu-
lia rusuli samxedro Zalebis mier axalcixeSi
da 1988 wlis Semdeg faqtiurad ar gasrolila,
Tumca dRevandeli Sedegebi sruliad amarTlebs
molodins, am qvemexis Seswavlisa da saTanado ga-
damzadebis Semdeg yvela samizne ganadgurebulia.
ase rom 27 Tebervali SesaZloa CaiTvalos kidev
erT warmatebul da saintereso dRed qarTuli
artileriis istoriaSi.

kapitani zurab TabukaSvili saerTod, artileriaSi 2004 wlidan intensiurad

captain zurab TabukaSHvili daiwyo mom­zadeba, rodesac saartilerio qve-

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Artillery – the God of War

danayofebi sakontraqto samsaxurze gadavida. ping down at the range we felt the pressure wave, which was a
mimdinareobs gegmiuri mecadineobebi, gvaqvs good enough sign that it was not just another simple work day.
savele gasvlebi orfolos sasroleTze weliwad-
Si aranakleb samjer, aqedan ori gasvla zafxulSi Captain, as I realized today you brought totally different artillery
da erTi Semodgomis periodSi, am process ra Tqma armament in the field…
unda, Tan axlavs sabrZolo srolebi.
Yes, you are absolutely right, we presented “Giatsind” Russian
distanciidan brZolas albaT Taviseburi, gan-
tug, 152 mm. howitzer. I have to mention that this is the first
sxvavebuli emociuri foni axlavs.
time that Georgian artillery servicemen fire from it. This howit-
zer type was left by the Russian military and it has not been used
diax, artileria wina xazze ar ibrZvis da gamom-
dinare aqedan, Taviseburad sainteresoa emoci- since 1988. But today’s exercises met our expectations. After re-
uradac, radgan ver vxedavT samiznes anu mters da search and retraining, all targets were destroyed successfully. So,
miuxedavad amisa vanadgurebT mas. in the light of current circumstances we are able to emphasize
that February 27 is another successful and interesting day in the
rogorc cnobilia sizustes gadamwyveti roli history of the Georgian Artillery.
ekisreba artileriaSi.
We started the intensive trainings in 2004, when artillery sub-
brZolis dros Cven, rogorc wesi, ukana pozicie- units moved to contract-based service. Scheduled exercises and
bze varT gamagrebuli da realur situaciaSi Cven field trainings in the Orpholo shooting range are organized at
win Cveni fexosnebi gadaadgildebian. iq am dros least three times per year; twice during the summer and once in
daSorebis manZili minimum 400 metramde meryeobs, the fall.
amitom sizuste pirvel rigSi isev Cveni qvedanay-
ofebis usafrTxoebisaTvis mogveTxoveba. I think that distance combat operations have a different emotional
sense, do you agree?
yvela samxedro specialoba sainteresoa, ratom
artileria?
You are right; artillery servicemen usually do not fight at the
frontlines, so it has some emotional sense. We do not meet our
artileristoba gadavwyvite 1997 wels, rodesac
enemy face-to-face and in spite of this we still destroy them.
Cavabare samxedro akademiaSi. yvela unarsa da
codnasTan erTad didi yuradReba eqceoda saer-
Tod umaRlesi maTematikis codnas, sadac dava- It is a well known fact that accuracy is one of the main require-
grove maRali qulebi da Caviricxe artileriis ments for artillery…
specialobaze. amasTan erTad manamde mqonda ukve
mizania rom vyofiliyavi artileristi, radgan es During the combat operations we stay on the backlines and our
aris samxedro specialoba, romelsac aqvs Tavisi land forces move in front of us and the minimal distance be-
gansakuTrebuli specifika da CemSi yovelTvis tween us is about 400 meters as usual, so our accuracy first of all
did interess iwvevda. is our forces’ safety guarantee.

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Each military specialty is interesting in its way, why artillery… vamayob, rom swored aseTi arCevani gavakeTe, br-
Zen xalxs uTqvams: ~artileria omis RmerTia~- es
I decided to become an artillerist in 1997, when I enrolled in namdvilad asea, radgan es aris gansakuTrebuli
Military Academy. Besides various skills and habits it was obliga- specialoba samxedro saqmeSi da SeuZlia didi
tory to have knowledge of mathematics. I passed the necessary cvlilebebis Setana sabrZolo procesSi, rac isev
tests and became a student of artillery. Since childhood I have da isev emyareba mis sizustes.
had a goal to become an artillerist.
aqve davamatebdi, rom artileristis samxedro
nawilSi gatarebuli erTi dRe da albaT arcerTi
I’m proud that I made such a decision. Wise men said: “Artil-
ar aris imdenad efeqturi, radgan CvenTvis ufro
lery is the God of War,” and I agree. It is a very special part of
metis momcemia sasroleTze yofna da sabrZolo
military action and can bring about huge change during combat,
srolebis Catareba.
which again is based on its accuracy as we already mentioned.
15 marts artileriis dRe aRiniSneba rogoria
I would like to add here that the Artillery servicemen’s day and survilebi da gegmebi?
probably not even any other days are as interesting or productive
at the base as they are during field exercises and combat shoot- 1993 wlis 15 marts, afxazeTis omis dros, artil-
ings at the range. eriam udidesi wvlili Seitana mimdinare proces-
ebSi da faqtiurad gadamwyveti roli Seasrula im
March 15 is Georgian Artillery Day, what are the wishes and dros mimdinare operaciebisas. gamomdinare aqe-
plans? dan yovel wels Cven gvirgviniT vamkobT memori-

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als da vixsenebT im warsul dros, rodesac Cveni On March 15, 1993 during the Abkhaz War Georgian Artil-
biWebi gmirulad daecnen brZolis velze. wels lery played a huge role in ongoing processes and dramatically
meTxuTmete welia artileriis dRis daarsebidan changed those operations that day. Since then, every year on
da amasTan dakavSirebiT Cvens nawilSi goris ter- that day we visit the memorial of Georgian artillery servicemen
itoriaze keTdeba axali memoriali, sadac yvela who died in the conflicts. It’s the 15th anniversary this year and
im mebrZolis fotoebi da gvarsaxelebi iqneba we plan to open another memorial on the territory of our main
aRniSnuli, romlebic uSualod goris raionidan base in Gori, commemorating those servicemen from the Gori
iyvnen warmoSobiT da yvela maTi ojaxis wevrs da
region who sacrificed themselves protecting their country. The
ara marto maT, saSualeba eqnebaT nebismier dros
memorial will have also pictures of each of them and their family
pativi miagon biWebis xsovnas.
members can visit the place to remember them.
rac Seexeba survilebs, pirvel rigSi vusurveb
yvela artilerists profesionalizmis kidev
I want to wish all the artillerists to improve their skills and raise
ufro amaRlebas, rac arc axla gvaklia. professionalism, though our artillerists don’t lack this.

Tanamedrove SeiaraReba axal gamowvevebs gvTava- With the moderns armament we face new challenges, which itself is
zobs, rac kidev ufro did motivaciasa da meti a precondition for new motivation and bigger successes. Each day
warmatebis winapirobas iZleva. yoveldRiurad we work with new technologies and that’s a permanent process.
Cven gvixdeba axal danadgarebTan da teqnikasTan
muSaoba, es procesi uwyvetia, rac piradad Cemi az- Developing and recruiting our artillery units is a nonstop pro-
riT, Zalze mniSvnelovan rols Seasrulebs konk- cedure. Stable contract service played a considerable role in

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attracting the young generation to join the army. It should be retuli amocanebis Sesrulebisas saqarTvelos
mentioned that artillery exercises held in the Orpholo shooting SeiaraRebuli ZalebisaTvis.
range in the summers of 2005-07 were especially fruitful. They
were followed with unmatched fire exercises including combined qarTuli artileriis rigebis Sevseba da misi pro-
shooting with another unit. fesionalizmis amaRleba intensiurad mimdinare-
obs.
For the future, we plan to renew the communication systems for
our artillery units and that will once again ensure that the artil- ra Tqma unda stabilur sakontraqto samsaxurze
gadasvlam didi gavlena moaxdina axalgazrdebis
lerists can accomplish their missions.
mozidvis kuTxiT. momzadebis mxriv gansakuTreb-
ulad unda aRiniSnos 2005-07 wlebis artile-
ristTa zafxulis saswavlo gasvlebi orfolos
poligonze, rasac sabrZolo srolebis uprecen-
dento, TiTqmis uwyveti procesi axlda. calkeul
saartilerio momzadebasTan erTad, ukve Camoyal-
ibebulma artileristebma, SeiaraRebuli Zalebis
sxvadasxva qvedanayofebTan erTad, kombinirebu-
li srolebic Caatares, ramac kidev erTxel aama-
Rla maTi brZolisunarianoba.

samomavlo gegmebSi Sedis artileristTa kavSir-

gabmulobis sistemebis gadaxalisebac, rac kidev
ufro efeqturs gaxdis maT moqmedebebs konkre-
tuli amocanebis Sesrulebisas.

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qarTuli artileriis
15 wlis iubile

mimoxilva /REVIEW
15th Anniversary of the georgian
Artillery
saqarTvelos SeiraRebulma Zalebma 15 marts The Georgian Armed Forces celebrated
artileriis me-15 wlisTavi aRniSna. am faqt- the Artillery Day on March 15. the 15th
Tan dakavSirebiT gorSi, saartilerio anniversary of the Artillery Day was marked
brigadis teritoriaze, sazeimo RonisZieba with a solemn ceremony on the grounds of
gaimarTa. Artillery Brigade in Gori.

pirad Semadgenlobas profesiuli dResaswauli Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Georgian Armed Forces
saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis mTavarsardal- Mikheil Saakashvili, Minister of Defence of Georgia David
ma, qveynis prezidentma mixeil saakaSvilma, saqarT- Kezerashvili and Chief of Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed
velos Tavdacvis ministrma daviT kezeraSvilma Forces Col. Zaza Gogava congratulated the military personnel on
da SeiaraRebuli Zalebis gaerTianebuli Stabis the occasion of the Artillery Day.
ufrosma polkovnikma zaza gogavam miuloces.
The President of Georgia laid a wreath at the memorial of
saqarTvelos prezidentma samxedro bazis terito- the Georgian heroes who made the supreme sacrifice for the
riaze gvirgviniT Seamko daRupul gmirTa memoria- territorial integrity of the country and addressed the Georgian
li da qarTvel artileristebs sityviT mimarTa. artillerists. “Artillery is the most honorable and experienced part

saqarTvelos prezidenti artileristebTan

president of georgia with the artillerists
 daRupul gmirTa memoriali
memorial of heroes

umaRlesma mTavarsardalma qarTuli SeiaraRe-

buli Zalebis istoriasa da qarTuli armiis gan-
viTarebaze isaubra: `artileria aris yvelaze
damsaxurebuli da yvelaze gamocdili nawili
saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebisa... erTaderTi
saswavlebeli, romelic amzadebda kadrebs da er-
TaderTi saswavlebeli, romlidanac Cven miviReT
saukeTeso kadrebi saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli
ZalebisTvis, es iyo Tbilisis saartilerio saswav-
lebeli~ - ganacxada man.

prezidentis gancxadebiT, saqarTvelos 33 000 pro-

fesionali samxedro mosamsaxure da 100 000 rezerv-
isti hyavs: `4 wlis win Cven gvyavda 2 aTasze cota
meti jariskaci, Cveni aviaciis raodenoba TviTm-
frinavebSi gaizarda 2-jer, vertmfrenebSi gaiz-
arda 3-jer, momzadebuli mfrinavebis raodenoba
gaizarda 5-jer, Cveni tankebis raodenoba gaizarda
20-jer, Cveni samxedro biujeti 2004 wels iyo 30 mln
dolaramde da mis did nawils iparavdnen da dRes
Cveni samxedro biujeti aris miliard dolaramde
of the Georgian Armed Forces... the only military school which da TiToeuli TeTri xmardeba saqarTvelos Seiara-
was preparing soldiers and the only military school that supplied Rebuli Zalebis siZlieres da ganviTarebas~
the Georgian Armed Forces with the best military professionals
was at the Tbilisi Artillery School,” declared the President of saqarTvelos prezidentis gancxadebiT: `nato-s
Georgia. SemfasebelTa misiam, romelic saqarTvelos ianvr-
is bolos ewvia, gaakeTa brwyinvale Sefaseba imaze,
He said Georgia had 33,000 professional and 100,000 reserve Tu rogor mimdinareobs Cveni samxedro reforma. es
servicemen. “Four years ago we had more than 2,000 troops. In iyo Zalian didi siurprizi, maT Soris natos bevri
aviation the number of our warplanes has doubled, the number qveynisaTvis, romelic cota skeptikurad uyureb-
of our helicopters has increased threefold, the number of trained da adre Cveni nato-Si gawevrianebis Sansebs~.

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qarTul artileriaze isaubra saqarTvelos Tav- pilots – fivefold, the number of tanks – twenty times… Our
dacvis ministris pirvelma moadgilem baTu quTe- defence budget was up to 30 million USD in 2004 and most of it
liam: `rogorc prezidentma aRniSna, artileria was squandered. Now defence budget is up to a billion USD and
aris is birTvi SeiaraRebuli Zalebisa, romlis sa- each tetri is used for developing and strengthening the Georgian
SualebiTac saqarTvelos teritoriuli mTliano- Armed Forces,” Saakashvili said.
ba iqneba daculi da garantirebuli. saqarTvelos
Tavdacvisunarianobis amaRlebis saqmeSi artil- He also said that the NATO Assessment Team that visited Georgia
erias udidesi wvlili miuZRvis da is warsuli war- in late January made an excellent report about the Georgia’s
matebebic, romelic qarTul artilerias hqonia, defence reforms. `It was a surprise even for those NATO
swored amas ganapirobebs. dReisaTvis qarTuli member countries that are skeptical about Georgia’s NATO
artileria dakompleqtebulia yvelaze Taname- membership.”
drove, uzustesi sistemebiT da bunebrivia yvelas
gveufleba sazeimo gancda, rodesac artileriis The First Deputy Defence Minister of Georgia, Batu Kutelia, talked
dRes aRvniSnavT. minda yvela artilerists, maTi about the Georgian Artillery: “As the president remarked, Artillery
ojaxis wevrebs da sruliad saqarTvelos mivu- is the core of the Georgian Armed forces that will guarantee and
loco dRevandeli dRe. vusurvo gamarjveba da protect the territorial integrity of Georgia. Artillery has a huge role
gamTlianeba.~ in strengthening the defence capacity of Georgia, and the success
which Georgian artillery had in past, proves it. Today, the Georgian
saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis gaerTianeb- Artillery is equipped with the most modern, precise systems and
uli Stabis ufrosi, polkovniki zaza gogava: it’s natural that we are full of emotions when marking the Artillery
`pirvel rigSi artileriis dRes Cvens qveyanas da Day. I want to congratulate all artillerists and their family members
SeiaraRebul Zalebs mivulocav. 15 marti artile- on this day. I want to wish them victory and unity.”
riis danayofebis Seqmnis dRea. minda vuTxra Cvens
qveyanas, Cvens sazogadoebas, rom saqarTvelos Chief of Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces, Col. Zaza
SeiaraRebul ZalebSi artileria erT-erTi gamor- Gogava, declared: “First of all, I want to congratulate our country
Ceuli danayofia, romelic momzadebulia umaR- and the Georgian Armed Forces on the occasion of the Artillery
les doneze, gaaCnia Tanamedrove SeiaraReba da es Day. The 15th of March is a day when the first units of the
ar aris mxolod is wertili razec dakmayofil- Georgian Artillery were established. I want to say to our country,
deba Cveni SeiaraRebuli Zalebi, dakmayofildeba our society, that Artillery is one of the most distinguished units
artileria. isini kvlav ganagrZoben TavianTi un- of the Georgian Armed Forces, which is well prepared and has
arCvevebis, TavianTi profesionalizmis daxvewas.~ modern armament and this is not the point where we are going
to stop. Our Armed Forces and Artillery will continue to develop
saqarTvelos Tavdacvis ministris pirvelma moad- and improve their capabilities and professionalism.”
gilem, baTu quTeliam, SeiaraRebuli Zalebis
gaerTianebuli Stabis ufrosma, polkovnikma zaza By the end of the ceremony, Deputy Defence Minister of Georgia,
gogavam da saartilerio brigadis meTaurma, gener- Batu Kutelia, Chief of Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces,
al-maiorma devi WankotaZem saqarTvelos terito- Col. Zaza Gogava, and Commander of Artillery Brigade, Maj.-
riuli mTlianobisaTvis brZolaSi daRupul meo- Gen. Devi Chankotadze granted presents to the families of heroes
marTa ojaxis wevrebs fasiani saCuqrebi gadasces. who died protecting the territorial integrity of Georgia.

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"me qarTveli samSvidobo var,
romelic yvelaze Zvirfass _
mSvidobas icavs"
I am a Georgian peacekeeper who
keeps the most precious – Peace
Salva londariZe
Shalva londaridze

sofeli zemo niqozi. am dasaxlebaSi samocdaaT

komlamde ojaxi cxovrobs. rogorc adgilobrivi
mosaxleoba xumrobs, omsa da mSvidobas isini Tan-
abrad SeeCvivnen, Tumca wynari cxovreba gacilebiT
xiblavT.

zemo niqozi mimdebare soflebisgan erTi SexedviT

TiTqmis arafriT gansxvavdeba, rom ara erTi mniS-
vnelovani faqtori. am sofelSi qarTveli samSvido-
boebi arian dislocirebulni, romlebic regionSi
stabilurobasa da mSvidobas uzrunvelyofen.

dReisaTvis arsebobs samoqmedo gegma, romlis mizani

erToblivad, qarTuli da osuri mosaxleobis usa-
frTxoebis mxardaWeraa.

The village of Upper Nikozi. There are up to 70 households in the

settlement. As the local population jokes, they are equally used to
war and peace, though they prefer to live in peace.

Upper Nikozi does not differ from other villages at a glance, if you
do not take into account one important fact. This is the village where
the Georgian peacekeepers are stationed who provide peace and sta-
bility of the region.

According to the existing action plan, the major goal is to support

the security of both Georgian and Ossetian population.

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Not long ago, the five-cross Georgian flag has been raised in the cen- arc Tu ise didi xani gavida mas Semdeg rac cxinvalis
ter of Tskhinvali. This is the headquarters of Peacekeeping Forces of centrSi saqarTvelos xuTjvriani saxelmwifo dro-
Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces in Tskhinvali. Sa afrialda. aq saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis
gaerTianebuli Stabis, samSvidobo Zalebis, cxinva-
The main function of the Peacekeeping Staff is to coordinate the lis warmomadgenlobis samSvidobo Stabia ganlage-
peacekeeping process determined by the international conventions buli.
and to direct the activities of the Georgian peacekeeping contingent
and military observers. misi funqciaa koordinacia gauwios konfliqtis
regionebSi saerTaSoriso xelSekrulebebiT gan-
Chief of Peacekeeping Forces of the Joint Staff Brig.-Gen. Mamuka sazRvrul samSvidobo procesebs. aseve, uxelmZR-
Kurashvili visited the personnel of the 3rd Peacekeeping Battalion vanelos qarTuli samSvidobo Zalebis warmomadgen-
(42nd Light Infantry Battalion of the 4th Infantry Brigade) and Bat- lobebisa da samxedro damkvirveblebis saqmianobas.
talion Commander, Capt. Merab Kiknadze.
me-3 samSvidobo batalionis (me-4 qveiTi brigadis
Journalists of the Defence Ministry accompanied General Kurashvili 42-e msubuqi qveiTi batalioni) piradi Semadgenloba,
on his tour to the conflict zone. Taking a special interest in the state romelsac kapitani merab kikabiZe xelmZRvanelobs,
of affairs on the frontline, we were introduced to the Commander and gaerTianebuli Stabis samSvidobo Zalebis Stabis xe-
interviewed the peacekeepers. lmZRvanelma, brigadis generalma mamuka yuraSvilma
moinaxula.
As Captain Merab Kikabidze explained, the situation in the region
was stable, though it does not give one the right to lose focus, espe- konfliqtis zonaSi generals Tavdacvis saministros
cially when one is stationed in the conflict zone. Jurnalistebic vaxldiT. mowinave xazze Seqmnili
viTarebiT dainteresebulebi sul male batalionis
Captain Kikabidze has a good sense of humor. He reckons that being meTaurs gavecaniT da qarTvel samSvidoboTa bediT
a spouse of a solider is also a profession and he considers that the best davinteresdiT.
specialist in this profession is his wife. He is frankly proud of being a
father of two sons. rogorc kapitanma merab kikabiZem gangvimarta, amJa-
mad regionSi viTareba stabiluria, Tumca konfliq-
After a brief excursion we visited one of the barracks and without any tis zonaSi momsaxure samxedro pirs yuradRebis mo-
obstacles we talked to the members of the peacekeeping battalion. dunebis ufleba ara aqvs. miTumetes, rodesac saqme
konfliqtis zonas exeba. rogorc kapitani ambobs, aq
Second Sergeant Zurab Kokilashvili has signed a contract with the yvela samxedro mosamsaxurisTvis erTi umTavresi
MoD and has been serving in the army for a year and a half. He principi moqmedebs. am princips ki, mudmivi sabrZo-
thinks that he has learned a lot during this period but admits that lo mzadyofna qvia.
three months of service in the Peacekeeping Battalion were very emo-
tional. kapitan kikabiZes iumoris kargi grZnobac aqvs.
jariskacis meuRleoba profesiaao ambobs da am pro-
“I am the Georgian peacekeeper who keeps the most precious – peace. fesiis saukeTeso specialistad sakuTar meuRles
So, it is a great honor for me to serve in this battalion,” says Zura, who miiCnevs. gulwrfelad amayobs, imiT, samSoblos or
has done his compulsory military service in the Border Guard. vaJkacs rom uzrdis.

As Zura recalls, this was the period when fledgling Georgian Army mcireodeni eqskursis Semdeg erT-erT yazarmaSi
had just started development along with the Georgian state. SevediT da yovelgvari xelovnuri barierebis gareSe
samSvidobo batalionis wevrebs gavesaubreT.

umcrosi serJanti zurab kokilaSvili jarSi sa-

zurab kokilaSvili kontraqto xelSekrulebiT weliwadnaxevaria msa­
Zurab Kokilashvili xurobs. miaCnia, rom am xnis ganmavlobaSi bevri ram
Seiswavla, Tumca samSvidobo batalionSi gatare-
bulma samma Tvem sul sxva emociiT damuxta.

`me qarTveli samSvidobo var, romelic samSoblosT-

vis yvelaze Zvirfass – mSvidobas icavs. aqedan
gamomdinare, CemTvis am batalionSi samsaxuri didi
pativia~ _ ambobs zura, romelmac savaldebulo sam-
saxuri Tavis droze sasazRvro jarebSi gaiara.

rogorc zura acxadebs es is periodi iyo, rodesac

qarTuli armia, saxelmwifosTan erTad, faqtobri-
vad axlidan yalibdeboda.

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swored maSin gadawyvita, rom saqarTvelos Seiara-
Rebul ZalebSi Tavis TanatolebTan erTad emsaxura
da profesionali samxedro gamxdariyo.

umcrosma serJantma jarSi, samxedro codnasTan er-

Tad, megobrebi SeiZina. axalgazrda samxedros mi-
aCnia, rom rodesac adamiani konfliqtis zonaSi msax-
urobs da mowinaaRmdeges TiTqmis pirispir uyurebs,
megobris Tanadgomas am dros gansakuTrebuli, didi
Zala gaaCnia.

misive TqmiT, samxedroebs nebivrobis ufleba ara

aqvT, Tumca Tavisufali dro xandaxan mainc rCebaT
da am dros ZiriTadad telekompania `saqarTvelo~-s
cqeriT arian dakavebulebi.

samxedro televizia aq didi popularobiT sarge-

blobs. gansakuTrebiT did interess ki samxedro
Tematikaze momzadebuli gadacemebi iwvevs.

zurabTan dialogis Semdeg Cven kidev erT serJants

gavesaubreT. Cveni interesi ki, batalionis meTauris
rekomendaciam ganapiroba

serJanti merab muToSvili jarSi 2001 wlidan msax-

urobs. savaldebulo samsaxuris moxdis Semdeg man merab muToSvili
isev SeiaraRebul ZalebSi darCena moindoma da kon- Merab Mutoshvili
traqti gaaforma.

`minda profesionali samxedro gavxde da momavalSic This was the period when he decided to serve in the Georgian Armed
iseve amayad vataro qarTuli forma rogorc axla va- Forces together with his peers and become a professional military man.
tareb.~
Second Sergeant expanded his knowledge of the military sphere and
saqarTveloze uzomod Seyvarebul am qist biWs saku- made friends as well. The young military man believes that when a
Tar Tavze saubari Zalian uWirs. fiqrobs, rom sxve- person is working in the conflict zone and looks at his opponents
bisgan arafriT gansxvavdeba. face-to-face sympathy among friends is very important.

`aq yvelas erTi amocana gvakisria - davicvaT mSvi- He assumes that the military have no time to waste. Still, sometimes
doba. Tu amas, Cems megobrebTan erTad warmatebiT even they manage to find some free time and spend it watching the
vaxerxeb, madlobis meti araferi meTqmis.~ ambobs Sakartvelo TV channel, which is very popular here. Servicemen usu-
merabi, romelmac batalionis meTauri mkacr, magram ally take special interest in programs prepared on military topics.
samarTlian xelmZRvanelad dagvixasiaTa.
After our interview with Zurab, we talked to another sergeant recom-
Cveni respodenti ara mxolod qarTuli jariT, mended by the Battalion Commander.
aramed qarTvelebsa da qistebs Soris arsebuli is-
toriuli warsuliTac amayobs. maT Soris, ori eris Sergeant Merab Mutoshvili has been serving in the army since 2001.
naTesauri kavSirebiTac. merabi qarTvel gogonaze After compulsory military service he decided to stay in the Georgian
ori wlis win daqorwinda da ukve eqvsi Tvis gogona Armed Forces and signed a contract.
hyavT. sul male ki maT axalgazrda ojaxs vaJkacic
Seemateba. “I want to become a professional serviceman and be proud to wear
the Georgian military uniform in the future like I am today.”
rodesac jarSi aseT motivirebul vaJkacebs xvdebi
Znelia amaRlebuli ganwyobilebiT ar daimuxto, This Kist guy who loves Georgia very much hardly finds words to talk
Tumca armia mxolod mamakacebisgan ar Sedgeba. about himself. He thinks that he is not different from others.

mSvenieri sqesis erT-erTi warmomadgeneli, rome­ “We have one common task – to preserve peace. If I’m doing it well
lic qarTuli jaris saxea, amave batalionis eqimi with my friends I’m very happy,” says Merab, who characterized the
serJanti nana cxadaZea. battalion commander as a severe but objective person.

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 qarTul armiaSi samsaxuri man oTxi wlis win gadawyvi-
nana cxadaZe
ta. axlac axsovs misi kolegebis gakvirveba, rodesac
Nana Tskhadadze
samedicino institutSi momuSave axalgazrda leq-
torma gaTavisuflebis Sesaxeb gancxadeba dawera.

rogorc Tavad acxadebs, jarSi samsaxuris dros uam-

ravi codna SeiZina da miRebuli gamocdileba axla
samoqalaqo cxovrebaSic Zalian exmareba.

`me erT-erTi qarTveli qali var, romelmac sakuTari

arCevani erTi didi ojaxis _ jaris sasargeblod gaa-
keTa.

cota xnis win samSvidobo misiiT eraySi viyavi miv-

lenili. dRes ki, saSualeba maqvs sakuTar miwa-wyals
amave statusiT vemsaxuro. merwmuneT, amaze didi
pativi da Rirseba ar arsebobs, rodesac sakuTari
qveynis jariskaci gqvia.~ es nanas sityvebia, qalia,
romlis sanukvari survili samSoblosTvis patri-
oti Svilebis aRzrdaa.

Our respondent is proud not only of the Georgian Army but of the serJanti qalbatoni piradi Semadgenlobis janm-
historical past of the Georgian and Kist people; he also takes pride rTelobis Sesaxeb gansakuTrebuli pasuxismgeblo-
in the Ossetian ties of relationship. Merab got married to a Georgian biT saubrobs. misi TqmiT, ZiriTadad pacientebi
girl two years ago and they have a six-month old daughter. The young sezonur daavadebas e.w. grips uCivian. seriozuli
family is expecting a son in the nearest future. tramvis SemTxvevaSi ki goris samxedro hospitalSi
gadahyavs, sadac samxedroebi umaRlesi donis sam-
When you meet such a motivated man in the Army it fills you with kurnalo kurss gadian.
high spirit, though besides men there are women in the army as well.
The battalion doctor, Sergeant Nana Tskhadadze, is one of them. samedicino momsaxurebis pirobebis gacnobis Semdeg
Jurnalistebi samxedroebis kvebiTac davinteres-
She started her military career four years ago. She still remembers the diT da jariskacis ulufac davagemovneT. meniu im-
surprised look of her colleagues when they learned about the decision aze mravalferovani aRmoCnda, vidre zogierT pan-
of a young, perspective lecturer of Medical University to quit her job sionatSi: puri, brinjis sufi, qaTmis Caxoxbilis,
and join the army. kartofilis piure da kombostos salaTi zeTiT. am
CamonaTvals Tan erTvis xili da naturaluri wveni.
As she says, she gained knowledge and experience that greatly helps es sadilis CamonaTvalia.
her in daily life.
batalionSi sul samjeradi kvebis saukeTeso pirobe-
“I’m one of those Georgian women who made her choice in favor of bia. meniu maRali kaloriulobiT da mdidari asor-
a big family – the Army.” timentiT gamoirCeva. uaxloes momavalSi dageg-
milia aranormirebul kvebis reJimze gadasvlac.
“Recently I was on a peacekeeping mission in Iraq. Today I have an yvelaferi es ki firma `X- meti~-is damsaxurebaa.
opportunity to serve my motherland under the same mandate. Be-
lieve me, there is no other greater dignity and honor than to be called mas Semdeg, rac samSvidobo batalionis cxovrebas
the soldier of your country,” these are the words of Nana – a woman dislokaciis adgilze gavecaniT samSvidobo Zaleb-
who dreams of raising patriots of the country. is Stabis ufross, general mamuka yuraSvils erT-
erT saguSagoze gadaadgileba vTxoveT. Tanxmoba
Sergeant Tskhaladze speaks about the health issues of the military miRebulia da Cveni korteJic erTdroulad gauval,
personnel with special sense of responsibility. Most of her patients daTovlil da atalaxebul gzas gaudga. garkveuli
are complaining of seasonal disease influenza. In case of serious inju- drois Semdeg emocia matulobs da izrdeba adren-
ries the patients are transferred to Gori Hospital where they receive alini. `yuradRebiT iare danaRmuli ar iyos~ _ ismis
professional medical treatment. generlis miTiTebac mZRolisadmi. ramdenime wuTSi
Cven saguSago koSkze varT, saidanac 400 metrSi ukve
After getting acquainted with the medical service conditions, the e.w. samxreT oseTis kontrolirebadi teritoria
journalists are curious to learn more about the soldiers’ nutrition: we iwyeba.
tasted their meal ration. The menu turned out to be more diverse than
in sanatoriums: bread, rice soup, chicken sauce, mashed potatoes and ramdenime wamic da ismis moxseneba: `batono gener-
cabbage salad with oil. Add to this fruit and fruit juice. This is one alo saguSago koSkze pasuxismgebeli leitenanti
food ration. WreliZe _ Cems mier sabrZolo davalebis Sesruleb-

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is dros raime gansakuTrebul SemTxvevas adgili ar
hqonia.~

Tavisuflad!

generalTan erTad e.w. blindaJSi SevdivarT da

kapral Salva SeyilaZes vesaubrebiT

jarSi yvelaferi rigzea. motivacia Zlieria, xolo

sabrZolo ganwyobileba maRali. rogorc ityvian,
sirTuleebis ar gveSinia.

davijero mcire saxis problemebic ar gaqvT, Tu

generali mamuka yuraSvili
batoni generlis gerideba?
general mamuka kurashvili

rogor giTxraT... gamogitydebiT da mcire problema

mainc arsebobs, ar davmalav. generlis Sewuxeba ar
Rirs, miTumetes, roca saqme Seyvarebuls exeba. The battalion soldiers are offered their meals three times a day. The
menu is rich in calories and the food assortment is wide. It is planned
axla ukve gasagebia. Sen problemasTan ki ara saqme to serve meals with free regime in the nearest. This is all thanks to
sasixarulo faqtTan gqonia. company “X-Meti”.

ho, sami Tve da oTxi dRea, rac aq vimyofebi. mxolod After getting familiar with the battalion life, we asked General Mamu-
telefoniT vaxerxeb dakavSirebas da isic mcire ka Kurashvili to visit one of the check-points. On getting authorization
droiT. monatrebiT momenatra, magram magaze ar our motorcade started to make its way through the impassable, snow-
vfiqrob. axla mTavari mowinave xazze biWebTan er- covered and muddy road. After a certain period of time emotions stir
Tad yofnaa. maTi daRalateba ar SeiZleba. up and adrenaline rushes. “Be careful, be aware of mines,” we hear
the General warning his driver. In several minutes we reached the
aqedan cxinvalamde daaxloebiT 400 metria. qalaqi check-point 400 meters away from the so-called Ossetian controlled
SeuiaraRebeli TvaliTac ki mosCans. rogor war- territory.
mogidgenia momavali urTierToba Sen os Tana-
tolebTan? In a second we hear a soldier reporting: “Sir General, Lieutenant
Chrelidze on duty on the check-point tower – There has been no spe-
mimaCnia, rom konfliqtis zonaSi arsebuli viTareba cial accident during my duty.”
mSvidobiani gziT unda mogvardes. amis mTavar garan-
tad ki mxareebs Soris politikuri SeTanxmeba unda
As you were!
iqces.
We enter the shelter together with the General and talk to Corporal
sainteresoa batoni generali ras fiqrobs amis
Shalva Shekiladze.
Sesaxeb?
Everything is in order in the Army. Motivation is high as is combat
qarTveli samSvidoboebi Cveni qveynis gmirebi arian.
TiTeuli maTgani sakuTari qveynis saxelmwifoebriv spirit. We are not afraid of difficulties.
interess am urTules pirobebSi, mowinave xazze pir-
naTlad icavs, risTvisac maT meTaurobas da piradad Should I believe that you don’t have any problem, or you are shy of the
jariskacebs madlobas vuxdi. General?

jari erTi didi ojaxia. yvela wodebis samxedro piri How can I say… Frankly, a little problem really exists. It is not worth
qveyanas erTnairi mowodebiT emsaxureba. to disturb the General, especially, when it concerns love.

uSualod rac konfliqtis zonaSi mosamsaxure samx- Now it is clear. In this case, it is not a problem, it’s a pleasant fact.
edroebs Seexeba, maTi misia samSvidoboa. isini kon-
fliqtis zonaSi mcxovreb qarTul-osuri mosaxleo- Three months and four days passed, since I have been here. I can
bis Tanadgomas uzrunvelyofen. mixaria, rom dRemde reach her only by phone for a short time. I am missing her, but I don’t
piradi Semadgenloba amas warmatebiT axorcielebs. think about this. Currently, the most important is to be on the first
line together with guys. They shouldn’t be betrayed.
Tavdacvis saministrosa da gaerTianebuli Sta-
bis xelmZRvanelobis mxardaWeris gareSe albaT It is almost 400 meters from this place to Tskhinvali. The city is visible
am mkacr pirobebSi samsaxuri did sirTuleebTan with the naked eye. How do you imagine your relations with your peer
iqneboda dakavSirebuli... Ossetians?

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I think the existing situation in the conflict zones should be resolved maTi mxardaWera CvenTvis marTlac Seufasebelia.
peacefully. Political agreement should be the main guarantee between minda visargeblo SemTxveviT da gansakuTrebuli
the sides. madloba gadavuxado Tavdacvis ministrs daviT
kezeraSvils, SeiaraRebuli Zalebis ufross, polk-
The General’s position is very interesting concerning this issue. ovnik zaza gogavas, gaerTianebuli Stabis ufrosis
moadgiles, vice-polkovnik aleqsandre osefai­
Georgian peacekeepers are the heroes of our time. Each of them pro- Svils. aseve, Sesyidvebis departamentis xelmZR-
tects the interest of his country, in this difficult situation, in the front vanelobas. maTi yoveldRiuri yuradReba, dain-
line. For this I express my gratitude to commanders and personally tereseba yoveli jariskacis bediT, CvenTvis didi
to every soldier. stimuli da moraluri mxardaWeraa.

The army is like one big family. Representatives of every military rank dReisaTvis mTlianad mogvarebulia yvela is Tun-
serve the country equally enthusiastically. dac mcire masStabis problema, romelic aqamde arse-
bobda. es exeba igive sawvav-sapoxi masalebiT uzrun-
Concerning the military servants in conflict zone, their mission is to velyofas, lojistikur momaragebas, kvebas da sxva
keep peace. They provide Georgian-Ossetian residents with support. I mniSvnelovan mimarTulebebs.
am happy that till today they are providing it successfully.
batono mamuka, bolo wlebSi jarSi bevri mankieri
Without the support of the leadership of the Ministry of Defence of tendencia aRmoifxvra. maT Soris, e.w. `dedovSCi-
Georgia and the Joint Staff, serving in these hard conditions should na~ amis damamtkicebeli, Tundac dRevandeli maga-
have been connected with great difficulties… liTia. generali pirad SemadgenlobasTan erTad,
sangarSi, wina xazze imyofeba...
Their support to us is really invaluable. I want to use the chance and
express special gratitude to the Minister of Defence of Georgia David saukeTeso meTauri piradi SemadgenlobisTvis
Kezerashvili, Head of the Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces magaliTis mimcemi unda iyos da uSualobiT gamoir-
Col. Zaza Gogava, Deputy Head of JS Ltc. Aleksandre Osepaishvili Ceodes.
and the leadership of the Procurement Department. Their daily atten-
tion, interest in every soldier’s fate is a big stimulus and a source of mimaCnia, rom jariskacebi, romlebic am regionSi
moral support for us. msaxuroben piradad Cemi TanamebrZolebi arian, rac
CemTvis didi pativia.
Today every little problem which existed till now is solved. It has to
do with providing lubricants, logistical support, nutrition and other ramdenime wlis win, aq, sadac Cven axla vimyofebiT
important things. osuri band-formirebebi TareSobdnen, ris gamoc
adgilobrivi mosaxleoba srul terors ganicdida.
Mr. Mamuka, many faulty tendencies were eradicated in the Army in es yvelaferi ukve warsuls Cabarda. arsebuli vi-
the last few years. Among them was violence against younger conscripts Tarebis aseTi radikaluri cvla ki swored qarTveli
in the army. Situation in the Army is a sheer example of this. General samSvidoboebis da policiuri danayofebis damsax-
together with personnel is in the trench at the front line. urebaa.

The best Commander for personnel should set an example and be garkveuli drois Semdeg SesaZloa am sangarSi
distinguished for his simplicity. myofi jariskacidan romelime generalic gaxdes.
Tqveni saxiT, ras urCevda mas gamocdili genera-
I think the soldiers who are serving in this region are personally my li?
companions. It is a great honor to me.
meTaurs jariskaci unda uyvardes da pativs scem-
Some years before, in this place where we are now, Ossetian gangs des mis pirovnul Rirsebas. darwmunebuli var, mo-
were raiding; local residents were terrorized. All this is in the past. It is mavalSi, rodesac es biWebi batalionebsa da bri-
the merit of Georgian Peacekeepers and police units that the existing gadebs uxelmZRvaneleben swored am principiT
situation has been radically changed. imoqmedeben.

Maybe one of the soldiers from the trench will become a General after wlebis ganmavlobaSi rokis gvirabis gakontrole-
some days. What will be the advice of experienced General? bas qarTuli mxare ver axerxebda. dRes es sakiTxi
sxvagvarad dgas. rogor warmogidgeniaT qarTveli
A commander must love his soldiers and must respect his personal samSvidoboebis roli am procesSi?
dignities. I am sure that in the future, when these guys lead battalions
and brigades, they will adhere to these principles. qarTvel samSvidoboebs unari SeswevT nebismier amo-
canas gaarTvan Tavi. mjera, saqarTvelo aucileblad
During the years, the Georgian side couldn’t control the Roki tunnel. gaimarjvebs da am warmatebis mopoveba os xalxTan
Today this question stands in other way, this issue can be solved. How erTad moxdeba.

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es optimisturi nota Cveni reportaJis saukeTeso do you see the role of Georgian Peacekeepers in this process?
dasasruli iqneboda, magram sofel avnevis mosax-
leobasTan gasaubrebis gareSe ar gvindoda kon- Georgian soldiers have the ability to complete their task successfully.
fliqtis zonidan wamosvla da vfiqrob, rom swori I believe that Georgia will win and we’ll share the victory with the
gadawyvetileba miviReT. avnevi swored is adgilia Ossetians.
sidanac saqarTvelos saxelmwifoebrivi iurisdiq-
cia mTavrdeba, droebiT!!! This optimist note would be the best end of this article, but we didn’t
want to leave the conflict zone without conversation with the resi-
qsenia giqoSvili _ ramdenime xnis win quCaSi gasvla dents of Avnevi village. I think this was a right decision. Avnevi is a
gveSinoda. cxinvalidan gadmosuli SeiaraRebuli place, where Georgia’s jurisdiction ends – for the time being!
adamianebi TiTqmis yoveldRiurad gvawiokebdnen.
dRes sruliad gansxvavebuli viTarebaa. Tqven Tvi- Ksenia Gikoshvili says: “Some time ago, we were afraid to go to the
Ton xedavT rogori gamococxlebulia sofeli. streets. Everyday we were startled by armed persons from Tskhinvali.
quCaSi bavSvebis xma da Jriamuli ismis. qarTuli jari Today the situation is different. You can see how the village is relieved;
rom ara, es yvelaferi isev sanatreli gveqneboda. you can hear children’s noise and hubbub. It would not be possible
without the Georgian Army.”
daviT WiRlaZe _ jer 10 wlis var da skolaSi vswav-
lob. rodesac gavizrdebi jariskaci unda gavxde. David Chigladze says: “I am 10 years old yet and I am studying at
mere avtomatis srolas viswavli da Cems samSoblos school. When I grow up, I’ll be a soldier. Then I will study shooting
davicav. and defend my country.”

glaxo yazaxaSvili _ am sofelSi 400-ze meti komli Glakho Kazakhashvili says: “There are more than 400 households
cxovrobs, aqedan asze mets osebi Seadgenen. maTTan in this village, among them, more than 100 are Ossetian. We are
ZmebiviT varT da gasayofic araferi gvaqvs.mas Sem- like brothers and we have nothing to fight over with them. Since the
deg, rac am xeobas qarTveli samSvidoboebi akon- Georgian peacekeepers are controlling situation, residents have been
troleben, mosaxleobas momavlis imedi mieca. inspired with the hope for future.”

saguSagoze
on the check-point

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samSvidobo misia/Peacekeeping mission

serJantma qalebma
samSvidobo misia Seasrules
Tea ivaniSvili
Tea Ivanishvili

The Third Infantry Brigade returned in Febru- Tebervlis dasawyisSi erayidan me-3 qveiTi
ary from Iraq. In a so-called red line in a place brigada dabrunda. samSvidobo misiiT ma-
with men there were also women. I have met some makacebis gverdiT, e.w. wiTel zonaSi qale­bic
of them removed in working conditions right imyofebodnen. ramdenime maTgans Svebulebis
damTavrebis Semdeg, samuSao garemoSi Sevx-
after end of their holiday. Sergeant Khatuna
vdiT. serJantebi xaTuna aglaZe, maka vaSakiZe,
Agladze, Maka Vashakidze, Irina Macharashvili, irina maWaraSvili, ucrosi serJantebi Tamar
Lance-sergeant Tamar Gogolauri and Rusudan gogolauri da rusudan elikaSvili eraySi
Elikashvili have made friends in Iraq. They lived damegobrdnen. isini erT yazarmaSi cxovrobd-
in one barracks and divided the responsibility, nen da erTad iziarebdnen pasuxismgeblobis,
nostalgia on the native land and family. samSoblosa da ojaxis monaterebis grZnobas.

Tamar gogolauri,
Tamar gogolauri, maka
maka vaSakiZe,
vaSakiZe, irina
irina maWaraSvili,
maWaraSvili, rusudan
rusudan elikaSvili
elikaSvili
Tamar gogolauri,
Tamar gogolauri, maka
maka vaSHakidZe,
vaSHakidZe, irina
irina macharaShvili,
macharaShvili, rusudan
rusudan elikaShvili
elikaShvili

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Women Sergeants Have Done
their Duty

saubars irina iwyebs. erTi SexedviT Tamami serJanti The Third Infantry Brigade returned from Iraq in February. On
saubrisas sakmaod TavSekavebuli aRmoCnda: the frontline, women were serving together with men. I have met
some of them right after the end of their holiday. Sergeant Kha-
axlaxans CamoxvediT erayidan da ukve SeudeqiT tuna Agladze, Maka Vashakidze, Irina Macharashvili, Lance-
Tqveni movaleobis Sesrulebas. dasveneba moas- sergeant Tamar Gogolauri and Rusudan Elikashvili have made
wariT mainc? friends in Iraq. They lived in one barracks and shared respon-
sibilities, as well as nostalgia of their families and their native
met-naklebad movaswariT, magram Camosvlis Semdeg
land.
yvelani cudad gavxdiT. sicxis Semdeg aseT yinvebs
ver SevegueT. iq piriqiT iyo - sicxeebi gviWirda.
Irina starts the conversation – seemingly brave as a sergeant, she
mokled, iqac da aqac aklimatizacis periodi gada-
appears somewhat reserved as we talk:
vlaxeT.

serJanti xaTuna aglaZe: es dReebi ZiriTadad oja- You have recently arrived from Iraq and have already entered
xSi gavatare. movinaxule yvela Cemi axlobeli. bav- duty. Have you had the time to have a rest?
Svebs imdenad monatrebulebi vyavdi, rom erTi wu-
TiTac ar mtoveben martos. We had the time to have a rest more or less, but after returning
we felt some discomfort because of climate differences: it was
xaTuna ori Svilis dedaa da sxvebTan SedarebiT hot there, and it is cold there, but we have overcome the acclima-
samSvidobo misiaSi yofnis didi gamocdileba aqvs. tization process already.
eraySi orjer imyofeboda, amitom rodesac wiTel
zonaSi samsaxuris gadawyvetileba miiRo, winaswar Sergeant Khatuna Agladze: I spent my holiday with my
gaazrebuli hqonda ra sirTuleebs waawydebda. family, met the relatives. Children missed me very much and did
mainc wavida, radgan miiCnevs, rom roca imas akeTeb, not leave me for a minute.
rac giyvars, naklebad fiqrob sirTuleze.
Khatuna has two children and has experience as a peacekeeper
samxedro samsaxuri mainc mamakacur profesiad more than others. She was in Iraq twice, and when she decided
iTvleba, amis fonze ufro sainteresoa qali, ro- to participate in mission in the conflict zone, she knew very well
melic eraySi, e.w. wiTel zonaSi 6 TviT samSvidobo how difficult it could be to perform her duty. Not looking at dif-
misiiT imyofeboda. ramdenad rTuli iyo am misiis
ficulties, she went to execute the duty because she thought that if
Sesruleba.?
a person likes her work, difficulties could not worry her.
samxedroebs sirTuleebze wuwuni ar uyvarT, samSvi-
dobo misiidan dabrunebuli qalebic am Temaze bevrs
Military service is a male profession, and in this context a wom-
ar saubroben, erTs ki ixseneben _ autaneli sicxeebi an who participates in military operations especially in the front-
iyoo da ojaxi gvenatrebodao. lines in Iraq during 6 months is becoming more interesting. Was
it hard fulfilling a peacekeeping mission in Iraq?
yvelafris miuxedavad, Cveni misia SevasruleT da
yvelaze mTavari axla es aris.. Military servicemen do not like to complain about difficulties,
and military women are not an exception, but all complains were
adgilobriv mosaxleobasTan Tu gqondaT urTier- made around intolerable heat and about missing one’s relatives.
Toba da rogori damokidebuleba CamogiyalibdaT In spite of everything we performed our mission and that’s what
maTTan. islamuri qveyanaa da qali samxedroebis the most important thing is...

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Did you have any relations with the local population and of what danaxvaze raime gansakuTrebuli reaqcia xom ar
kind? Did they have some specific reactions looking at military hqoniaT...
women because of their religion?
Tamar gogolauri: qalebi bazidan ar gavdiodaT.
Tamar Gogolauri: We (women) had not left the base. But Geor- qarTveli samxedroebi xSirad adgilobriv mosaxle-
gian military servicemen often helped local people, for which obas exmarebodnen, ris gamoc Zalian uyvarT qarTve-
they earned the population’s respect and friendly attitude. lebi da megobruli damokidebuleba CamouyalibdaT
maTTan.
Khatuna Agladze: One Arab man had a little store near our base
and Arabs visited this store quite often. When we were talking xaTuna aglaZe: erT arabs Cvens bazaze maRazia hqon-
about our customs they find similarities between our traditions, da gaxsnili da arabebi xSirad Semodiodnen xolme.
except wearing the veil (purdah). We felt respect from the popu- roca maT gaiges Cveni adaT-wesebi, Tqves, rom igive
tradiciebi gaqvT, oRond Tqveni qalbatonebi Cadrs
lation. Georgian servants assisted the Iraqi people and they have
ar atarebeno. amis Semdeg did pativiscemas vgrZno-
a high opinion of us.
bdiT. qarTvelebi ZiriTadad gadiodnen adgilobri-
vi mosaxleobis dasaxmareblad, amitom Zalian kargi
Irina Macharashvili: We were not able to have conversations with
damokidebuleba hqondaT Cvens mimarT da sixaruliT
the local population because of the language barrier, but there
gvxvdebodnen.
was visible surprise in their eyes when they looked at military
women in uniforms. irina maWaraSvili: adgilobriv mosaxleobasTan
gasaubreba ver SevZeliT enis barieris gamo, magram
Why did you decide to join the military? imaT gamoxedvaSi igrZnoboda gakvirveba, roca qals
formaSi gvxedavdnen.

saerTod saidan wamovida imis survili, rom samxe-

dro mosamsaxure gamxdariyaviT?

maka vaSakiZe: adre samxedro hospitalSi vmuSaobdi,

romelic Semdeg SeuerTda Cvens brigadas. dedaCemic
samxedro mosamsaxure iyo. aqedan gamomdinare kar-
gad vicnobdi samxedro cxovrebas da mec gamiCnda
survili dedaCemis kvals gavyolodi.

xaTuna aglaZe: amisTvis didi madloba minda gada-

vuxado maior zaza CxaiZes da vice-polkovnik aleq-
sandre osefaiSvils. es maTi damsaxurebaa. Cemi Zma
TbilisSi ar iyo, roca miTxres, rom ukve SesaZlebe-
lia mandilosnebma imsaxuron jarSio. mec didi sia-
movnebiT davTanxmdi. marTalia, Cemi Zma winaaRmdegi
iyo, radgan Zalian momTxovnia da eSinoda araferi
SemSloda, magram mivaRwie imas, rom axla kmayofilia
da amayobs kidec. pirvelad muSaoba kojris specda-
niSnulebis brigadaSi daviwye.

eraySi gamgzavrebasTan dakavSirebiT Tqvens gada-

wyvetilebas ojaxSi rogor Sexvdnen?

xaTuna aglaZe: ojaxi TiTqmis samxedro maqvs, ami-

tom ar gakvirvebiaT. Zma da rZali oficrebi arian.
Svili ki saxlSi ukve formiT dadis da ocnebobs, ro-
dis gaxdeba samxedro. megobrebic yvelani samxedro
mosamsaxureebi arian.

rusudan elikaSvili: SiSiT, magram davarwmune, rom

saWiro iyo samSvidobo misiaSi Cemi wasvla. me main-
cdamainc ar meSinoda. cnobismoyvareobis grZnoba
ufro mqonda. profesiiT Jurnalisti var da mainte-
resebda, ra xdeboda eraySi. iq ufro saSiSi situacia
dagvxvda, vidre megona. magram axla amayi var, rom

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yvelafer amas vZlie da Cemze dakisrebuli misia Se-
vasrule.

xaTuna Tqven orjer iyaviT eraySi. ra gansxvaveba

iyo am or misias Soris?

pirvelad baRdadSi viyavi, iq Cveni misia gansxvave-

buli formatis iyo, ZiriTadad obieqtebs vicavdiT.
maSin mxolod batalioni asrulebda samSvidobo mi-
sias, axla ki wiTel zonaSi mTeli brigada iyo dis-
locirebuli. gansxvaveba infrastruqturis Tval-
sazrisiTac iyo. baRdadSi yvelaferi mowesrigebuli
dagxvda, al-kutSi ki infrastruqtura saerTod ar
arsebobda. yvelaferi, yazarma Tu Stabi me-3 qveiTi
brigadis jarisjacebma aaSenes da es Zalian rTu- irina maWaraSvili, rusudan elikaSvili
li iyo, magram kargad gaarTves Tavi. CvenTan erTad irina macharaShvili, rusudan elikaShvili
eraySi imyofeboda mama gabrieli. bazaze da sakon-
trolo gamSveb punqtebze eklesiebi aaSenes, sadac Maka Vashakidze: I used to work in a military hospital, which
wirva-locva mimdinareobda. Zalian bevri morwmunea was added to my current brigade. My mother was in the military
jarSi da mixaria, rom erTmaneTis mimarT Tanadgomas as well; I knew military life quite well and I’ve followed my moth-
da urTierTpativiscemas vxedavdi. ers steps.

ra gamocdileba miiReT samSvidobo misiaSi yofni- Khatuna Agladze: I would like to express my highest gratitude to
sas da sad SeiZleba am gamocdilebis gamoyeneba?
Major Zaza Chkheidze and LTC Aleksandre Osepaishvili. My
military carrier is their merit. My brother was not in Tbilisi when
irina maWaraSvili: samxedro samsaxurSi yofnisas
I got informed that women were permitted to join the army. I
yovelTvis iReb gamocdilebas disciplinis mxriv,
eCvevi reJimSi cxovrebas. eraySi daZabuli situ-
have willingly agreed to become a military woman. My brother
aciis atanisa da sirTuleebTan gamklavebis kargi was against my choice because he is very exacting and was con-
gamocdileba miviReT. cerned about me. But today he is proud of me. I have begun my
career in the Kojori Special Operations Battalion.
xaTuna aglaZe: didi gamocdileba miviRe, aramarto
samxedro TvalsazrisiT, aramed adamianuriTac. vxe- How did your family react to your decision to serve in Iraq?
davdi rogor gaWirvebaSi cxovrobda xalxi, ra saSi-
neli pirobebi iyo. maT fonze RmerTs madlobas veu- Khatuna Agladze: Most of my family members are military ser-
bnebodi, rom saqarTvelodan viyavi droebiT Casuli. vants, so they were not surprised. My brother and sister in law
Cven namdvilad ar gvaqvs sawuwuno. are officers. My child is wearing uniform and wants to become
a soldier as soon as possible. My friends are in the military as
samSvidobo misiaSi yofnisas viswavleT rTul piro- well.
bebTan Segueba da didi cxovrebiseuli gamocdileba
miviReT. Rusudan Elikashvili: I convinced them that it is necessary for me
to participate in this mission. I was not afraid and it was very cu-
Tamar gogolauri: iq yofnis dros miviRe udidesi rious, because as a journalist I wanted to know what really went
gamocdileba. gavxdi ufro Zlieri da amtani. SeveCvie on in Iraq. It was more terrible than what I had thought, but now
rTul situaciaSi muSaobas da gamiqra SiSis grZnoba I am proud that I have gone there.
srolebisa da afeTqebebis dros. am gamocdilebas iq
gamoviyeneb, sadac Cems qveyanas dasWideba.
Khatuna, you were in Iraq twice. What was the main difference
between those missions?
kerZod risi gakeTeba gevalebodaT?

maka vaSakiZe: Cven ZiriTadad kadrebis da kancelari- I was in Baghdad during my first tour, and our mission was to
is TanamSromlebi varT. viyaviT marTvis centrSi da safeguard several objects. At this time only one battalion per-
vakvirdebodiT rogor gadaadgildeboda badra- formed the mission, but on my second tour there was a whole
gi. gvevaleboda ganwesSi gasvla da daZabulebi brigade at the frontlines. Differences were in the context of infra-
vadevnebdiT Tvals monitors, Tan gaTviTcnobiere- structure as well. Everything was figured out in Baghdad, but in
buli gvqonda, rom yoveli gadaadgileba riskTan the city of Al kut there was not any infrastructure at all. All bar-
iyo dakavSirebuli, moulodneli ,,siurprizebi~ iq, racks and staff buildings were built by the soldiers of the Third
wiTel zonaSi, arc Tu iSviaTia da vnatrobdiT Cveni Infantry Brigade and it was not easy, but everything was done
biWebi mSvidobiT dabrunebuliyvnen banakSi. well. A lot of religious people are in the army and I am glad.

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We had a pastor at the base and there were little churches at the iq yofnisas ra genatrebodaT yvelaze ufro?
check-points where our pastor delivered sermons.
irina maWaraSvili: yvelaferi qarTuli gvenatre-
Could you say few words about your experience in peacekeeping boda: samSoblo, ojaxis wevrebi, axloblebi da mego-
mission and where you are going to use this experience? brebi. me da makas Svilebi gvyavs, romlebTan kontaqt-
sac mesijebiT vaxerxebdiT. ojaxSi yvela daZabuli
Irina Macharashvili: It is obvious that I got some experience iyo da nerviulobdnen, magram yvelaferi kargia, rac
from my military service. I got used to being disciplined. I got kargad mTavrdeba.
experience in solving difficulties.
maka vaSakiZe: qarTuli kerZebi gvenatreboda. ve-
Khatuna Agladze: It was great experience for me not only in the rafriT SevegueT iqaur saWmels. erTi Tve TiTqmis
military sphere, but also as far as the human factor is concerned. arafers vWamdiT. gavxdiT. Semdeg nel-nela Seveg-
ueT. xandaxan Tu amis saSualeba mogvecemoda baJes
I could see the poverty of the locals. Looking at their living con-
vakeTebdiT.
ditions, I thank God for my Georgian roots. During my participa-
tion in peacekeeping mission I realized how to figure out difficul-
axla roca samSobloSi xarT albaT gaxsendebaT is-
ties and gather life experience.
toriebi, romelic Tavs gadagxdaT, zogic sasaci-
lo, zogic saintereso. . .
Tamar Gogolauri: Military operations gave us a lot of experience.
I became stronger. I am able to overcome difficulties and fears. xaTuna aglaZe: ki rogor ara. gogoebi roca vikri-
I will implement my experience everywhere according my coun- bebiT xSirad vixsenebT xolme. erTxel Tavdacvis
try’s needs. saministros delegacia Camovida JurnalistebTan
erTad. maTTan erTad iyo Tavdacvis saministros
What did you do specifically? sazogadoebriv saqmeTa departamentis sazogadoe-
basTan da masmediasTan urTierTobis sammarTvelos
Maka Vashakidze: We are personnel management and chanul- ufrosi rusudan cimakuriZe, romelsac dabombvis
lary employees. We had been in the administration centre and imdenad ar eSinoda, ramdenadac xvlikebis da ucxo
had controlled guard movement. We had to patrol the area and mwerebis. mTeli Rame ar eZina, gvexveweboda, melapa-
control monitors. We knew quite well that each movement could rakeT gogoebo, ver viZineb, meSinia saidanme xvliki
be insecure and “surprised”. Suddenness is not a rare occurrence ar gamoZvreso. kidev kargi, am dros ar daemTxva da-
in the red-line territory. We only hoped that our boys would re- bombvebi. ise Zalian mainteresebda am dros ras iza-
turn unharmed. mda. rac marTali marTalia erTi kviris manZilze ise
davaJkacda, rom iZaxda, kidev Camovalo.
Did you miss something special?
erT patara incidentsac gavixseneb. erTxel sasa-
Irina Macharashvili: Everything Georgian… We missed families, diloSi morige viyavi. qarTvel biWebs evalebodaT
friends, and homeland. Maka and I have children and we were SemsvlelTa mowmobebis kontroli. erT-erTi ame-
contacting with them by messages. Our family members worried rikeli specrazmeli ar daemorCila da ZaliT Semo-
about us, but everything was fine. vida. Sevecade situaciaSi garkvevas. gavige sad, ro-
mel qvedanayofSi msaxurobda da Sevatyobine Stabs.
Cvenma meTaurma didi yuradReba miaqcia am faqts da
amerikelma saTanado pasuxi ago, bodiSic ki mouxada
serJants.

dabombvis dros erT-erTi qarTveli daiWra. mas ga-

daefara samxedro policiis serJanti xaraiSvili da
sanam srola ar damTavrda ar moSorda, pirveladi
daxmarebac gauwia. amisaTvis mas madloba gamoucxa-
des da axla medalzea wardgenili.

rusudan elikaSvili: quveiTidan al-kutSi rom

CavediT, Zalian daRlilebi viyaviT da dasaZineblad
davweqiT. RamiT dabombvis xmam gamogvaRviZa. mar-
Talia, gafrTxilebulebi viyaviT, magram mainc
gamovvardiT gareT. iqve cementis bunkerebi iyo
gadmoyiravebuli, SevediT am yuTSi da mTeli Rame
xaTuna aglaZe TanamebrZolebTan erTad iq gavatareT. aranaklebi SiSi vnaxeT, roca oTaxSi
Khatuna Agladze with her comrades-in-arm virTxa SemogveWra. iseTi ambavi avtexeT qalebma,
mere Cven TviTon Segvrcxva. warmoidgineT Tavi

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mogvaqvs, samxedroebi varT, wiTel zonaSi vmsax- Maka Vashakidze: We missed the Georgian cuisine. We could
urobT da virTxam gadagvria. didxans davrbodiT, not get used to the local meals. Sometimes we prepared Geor-
vyvirodiT, samni vebrZodiT da bolos rogorc iqna gian dishes.
movkaliT. aseTive warmatebiT vebrZodiT xvlikebs.
Tavidan Tu biWebs veZaxdiT dasaxmareblad. bolos Now when you are in Georgia you must be remembering some
ise gavyoCaRdiT, rom qoSis erTi tyorcnac ki sakma- more or less funny stories. ..
risi iyo da ,,mteri~ mogeriebuli gvyavda.
Khatuna Agladze: Of course we have some funny stories. Once
maka vaSakiZe: erTxel morige viyavi da gadmosces, the delegation of the Defence Ministry visited our base togeth-
rom meTauri mofrinavs ZroxiTo. StabisaTvis mniS- er with journalists. Head of Division for Public Relations and
vnelovani iyo imis gageba Tu riT gadaadgildeboda Mass-media of the Public Relations Department, Ms. Rusudan
meTauri, informacia ki me unda mimewodebina. saSin- Tsimakuridze was accompanying the delegation. And she was
lad davibeni, ver gavbede meTqva ZroxiT mofrinav-
not as scared of bombs as she was of lizards and insects. She
so. Tan vfiqrobdi namdvilad sworad gavige Tu ara
could not fall asleep for nights on end and asked us to talk to her
meTqi, Tu sworad gavige kuveitidan raSi dasWirda
because she was scared that lizards and insects would suddenly
meTaurs Zroxis wamoyvana... mokled sagonebelSi Cav-
appear. Thanks God there were no bombings at that time. I can
vardi. sxva gza ar mqonda, rac gavige gadaveci. ufro
imagine Rusudan’s frightened eyes. But it should be mentioned
iman gamakvirva, rom am informaciaze StabSi aranairi
that during the week she became stronger.
reaqcia ar hqondaT. mere gavige, aseTi metsaxelebi
hqondaT Turme vertmfrenebs.
I would like to mention one more fact as well. Once I was on duty
irina maWaraSvili: erT-erTi dabombvis Semdeg in the kitchen. A Georgian servant was responsible for control-
gviTxres, Cveni biWebi daiWrneno. meTaurma gvTxova, ling incomers’ IDs. One of the American SF’s came in without
mogvenaxulebina isini da gagvemxnevebina. Cvenc ga- permission. I tried to fix up situation and after the incident was
vamzadeT xili da Sokoladi, romelic saqarTvelo- resolved the American soldier apologized.
dan Camogvitanes da Zalian gvenaneboda sxvisTvis
wasaRebad. lazareTSi mivediT, oTaxSi SevediT da iq During a bombing, one of the Georgian soldiers was injured and
mxolod erTi biWi dagvxvda, romelic Cveni stumro- Sergeant Kharaishvili covered him until firing stopped. Sergeant
biT Zalian gaocda. davsxediT da daviwyeT saubari was awarded a medal.
sxvadasxva Temaze. Semdeg vekiTxebi: Wriloba rogor
gaqvso? ra Wrilobao, gakvirvebulma mipasuxa. Rusudan Elikashvili: When we arrived in Al-kut we were quite
daWrili ki ar var, nevrozi avikideo. eg xom yvelas tired, because we would wake up because of bombings. We were
gvWirso, vuTxariT da siciliT davemSvidobeT. ase informed, but anyway we were scared. We found used boxes for
daumsaxureblad darCa CvenTvis esoden sanatreli cement and got under these boxes. We were under those boxes
xili da tkbileuli pacients. for the whole night. It was curious when we found a rat in our
room. We finally got rid of the rat. Fighting against lizards was
brigadaSi dabrunebis pirveli dRe ra asociacias successful in the same way.
badebs TqvenSi?
Maka Vashakidze: Once I was on duty and was informed that our
Zalian mogvenatra samsaxuri. aq rom movdiodi, ise- Chief would fly by “cow.” It was very important for staff to know
Ti grnoba miCndeboda, TiTqos pirveli samuSao dRe our Chief’s flight details. I was taken aback completely; I did not
mqonda. fexi Semovdgi Tu ara brigadis teritoriaze know how I could inform staff about cow flight details. I couldn’t
mivxvdi, raoden nacnobi da mSobliuri iyo aq yve- do anything though, so I repeated what I had heard. Later, I found
laferi. marTalia dasveneba yvelas siamovnebs, ma- out that “cow” means helicopter in the military slang.
gram ise SeveCvieT erTmaneTs, rom Svebulebis dro-
sac ki erTmaneTi gvenatreboda. First day after returning to the brigade, could you express your
emotions?
kidev waxvalT samSvidobo misiis Sesasruleblad?
We missed our work place very much. I felt that it looks like my
xaTuna aglaZe: xSirad misvamen am SekiTxvas axlo-
first working day – that was my emotion. When I came into the
blebi. marTalia Zalian menatreba Cemi samSoblo,
brigade I realized that it is my home place. It was great to be on
miZneldeba Svilebis, ojaxis gareSe yofna, magram me
holidays, but we missed each other.
samxedro var da Tu saWiro iqneba arc ki davfiqrde-
bi, ise waval.
Would you like to be sent on peacekeeping missions again?

Khatuna Agladze: I have been asked this question many times. I

really miss my country, it is very difficult to leave children, fam-
ily, but I’m a military servicewoman and if it is necessary I will
go without a second thought.

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winapiroba warmatebuli
mimoxilva/review

reformebisTvis
beqa aladaSvili
beka aladashvili

In the first quarter of this year, the Minis- mimdinare wlis I kvartalSi Tavdacvis sami-
try of Defence published two essential doc- nistrom ori mniSvnelovani dokumenti gamoa-
uments. On January 24, the MOD held a pre- qveyna. ama wlis 24 ianvars gaimarTa Tavdacvis
sentation on unclassified version of Final strategiuli mimoxilvis (Tsm) Semajamebeli
Report of Strategic Defence Review (SDR), moxsenebis arasaidumlo versiis prezentacia,
followed by the publication of “Minister`s xolo 7 marts Tavdacvis ministris xelmowe-
Vision 2008-2011” that was signed by the Minis- ris Semdeg, gamoqveynda dokumenti ,,ministris
ter of Defence on March 7. These documents xedva 2008-2011~. aRniSnuli dokumentebi mniS-
contribute a lot to defining the transfor- vnelovnad gansazRvraven Tavdacvis sistemis
mation of the Defence System and the GAF transformaciis da zogadad ganviTarebis
development process generally. process.

saqarTvelos Tavdacvis strategiuli mimoxilvis

dokumenti warmoadgens individualuri partnioro-
bis samoqmedo gegmiT (IPAP) gaTvaliswinebul erT-
erT mniSvnelovan valdebulebas. saqarTvelos Ta-
vdacvis strategiuli mimoxilvis SemuSavebis pro-
cesi daiwyo saqarTvelos prezidentis 2004 wlis 7
seqtembris #372 brZanebulebis safuZvelze.

dokumenti moicavs saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zale-

bis (sSZ) arsebuli mdgomareobis yovlismomcvel ana-
lizs da ayalibebs SeiaraRebuli Zalebis ganviTare-
bis stretegiul kurss. igi srulyofilad mimoixila-
vs SeiaraRebuli Zalebis SesaZleblobebis yvela kom-
ponents, adgens TiToeuli komponentis ganviTarebis
Tavdacvis mimarTulebebs da ZiriTad samoqmedo areals ZalTa
dagegmvisa da resursebis ganawilebis sferoSi. arse-
strategiuli buli samxedro-politikuri varaudebis da SesaZlo
scenarebis gaTvaliswinebiT, dokumenti gansazRvra-
mimoxilva vs sSZ-s ganviTarebis mimarTulebebs grZel, saSualo
da moklevadian periodebisTvis. igi warmoadgens Zi-
S TRATEGIC D EFENCE R EVIEW riTad saxelmZRvanelo dokuments resursebis gana-
wilebis, ZalTa dagegmvis, Tavdacvis prioritetebis
dadgenis, da biujetis formirebis TvalsazrisiT.

2007 wlis Tavdacvis strategiuli mimoxilvis doku-

mentis Semajamebeli moxsenebis prezentacia gaimar-
saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministro MINISTRY OF DEFENCE OF GEORGIA
Ta nato-s Stab-binaSi. amis paralelurad, dokumenti
ganxilul iqna saqarTvelos parlamentSi Tavdacvisa

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Planning Documents –
Precondition for Successful
Reforms

da uSiSroebis komitetSi. agreTve, Tsm-s arasaidu- Georgian SDR document represents one of the important
mlo varianti ganxilul iqna arasamTavrobo orga- commitments concerning Individual Partnership Action Plan
nizaciebTanac. yovelive amis Semdeg, 2007 wlis no- (IPAP). SDR Development process has begun in terms of
emberSi, dokumenti daamtkica saqarTvelos prezi- Presidential order #372, signed on September 7, 2004.
dentma.
The document involves comprehensive analysis of the cur-
Tsm-s farglebSi Tavdacvis saministroSi SemuSavda rent situation in the Georgian Armed Forces (GAF) and
ZiriTadi konceptualuri dokumentebi (safrTxeebis formulates strategic developments course of the GAF. It
Sefasebis dokumenti, erovnuli samxedro strategia, thoroughly reviews all components of the GAF capabilities,
ministris xedva), romelTa daskvnebis gaTvaliswine- determines the directions of each component and main fo-
biT xorcieldeba Tavdacvis dagegmvis procesi. cus area in force planning and resource allocation. Consid-
ering existing Political-Military assumptions and possible
Tsm-s farglebSi ganxorcielda aRWurvilobis, in- scenarios, the document defines the main areas of GAF
frastruqturisa da personalis inventarizacia, development over short, medium and long term periods. It
rac SemdgomSi mniSvnelovnad Seuwyobs xels sistema- is supposed to be a manual document for resource alloca-
Si arsebuli naklovanebebisa da deficitebis dadge- tion, force planning, determination of defence priorities and
nasa da maT aRmofxvras. budget proposition.

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The presentation of the Final Report of Strategic Defence Tavdacvis sistemis marTvis srulyofisaTvis SemuSa-
Review 2007 was held at the NATO headquarters; simulta- vda da dainerga dagegmvis programirebis da biuje-
neously, the document was discussed in the Parliamentary tirebis (PPBS) axali sistema, SemuSavda ,,dagegmvis,
Committee on Defence and Security. An unclassified ver- programirebisa da biujetirebis saxelmZRvanelo~,
sion of SDR was also discussed with NGOs. In November sadac detaluradaa aRwerili Tavdacvis saministros
2007, the document was finally approved by the President dagegmvis programirebis da biujetirebis fazebi da
of Georgia. am procesSi saministrosa da SeiaraRebuli Zalebis
struqturul erTeulTa funqcia-movaleobebi.
Within the framework of SDR, the main conceptual docu-
ments (such as Threat Assessment document, National SeiaraRebul ZalebSi mizanze orientirebuli re-
Military Strategy, Minister`s Vision) have been elaborated, formebis xelSewyobis mizniT SemuSavda mTeli rigi
and we implement defence planning process according to koncefciebi.
their conclusions.
SemuSavda ZalTa saSualo da grZelvadiani struqtu-
Within the framework of SDR, the MoD has made an inven- rebi 2015 wlamde.
tory of equipment, infrastructure and personnel. It would
provide the steps towards determination and elimination of Tsm-s farglebSi dainerga SesaZleblobebze dafuZ-
existing deficiencies and shortfalls in the Defence system. nebuli dagegmvis meTodologia, romelic efuZneba
im garemoebas, sadac mniSvnelovania ara is, Tu vis da
In order to improve the defence systemmanagement, the sad SeuZlia Cveni gamowveva, aramed is, Tu ra saxis wi-
MoD elaborated a new Planning, Programming and Bud- naaRmdegobasTan SeiZleba gvqondes saqme. aseTi ti-
geting System (PPBS). At the same time PPBS manual pis dagegmva gansazRvravs SesaZleblobebis arCevans
da meTodebs, romelTa gamoyeneba SegviZlia arapro-
has been elaborated, which describes the PPBS phases
gnozirebad momavalSi.
in details and defines functions/responsibilities of the MoD
and GAF structural units in this process.
Tsm-s damtkicebis Semdeg, Tavdacvis saministrom
SeimuSava Tsm-s rekomendaciebis ganxorcielebis
In order to support target oriented reforms, MoD has elabo-
gegma. aRniSnul dokumentSi warmodgenilia detalu-
rated various concepts, as well as mid and long term force
ri, droSi gawerili RonisZiebebis grafiki, romelic
structures throughout 2015.
uzrunvelyofs Tsm-s rekomendaciebis gegmazomier
ganxorcielebas.
According to SDR, we introduced a capability-based plan-
ning methodology. Capabilities-based planning focuses
aRsaniSnavia, rom am tipis da masStabis dokumenti
more on how adversaries may challenge us than on who
pirvelad momzadda Tavdacvis saministroSi. agreT-
those adversaries might be or where we might have to ve dokumentis farglebSi, saqarTvelos Tavdacvis
confront them. Such planning identifies the range of ca- sistemaSi pirvelad Caeyara safuZveli saSualo da
pabilities and methods we may possess to contend with an grZelvadian dagegmvas Tavisi Tanmxlebi elemente-
uncertain future. biT, rogorebicaa dagegmvis sxvadasxva dokumentebis
momzadeba, safrTxeebisa da resursebis gaTvaliswi-
Capabilities-based planning is a transformational step in nebiT ZalTa struqturebis formireba da resurso-
defense management that radically changes the legacy brivi gaTvlebis warmoeba.
practice of focusing exclusively on known threats and struc-
turing forces against only those requirements. meore mniSvnelovani dokumentia ,,ministris xedva
2008-2011~, romelic mimdinare wlis 7 marts Sevida
After SDR approval, the MoD developed SDR recommen- ZalaSi. aRniSnuli dokumenti warmoadgens zogad
dations implementation plan. The document involves de- saxelmZRvanelos Tavdacvis saministrosa da Seia-
tailed, time-lined activity schedule that provides reasonable raRebuli Zalebis ganviTarebis procesSi. doku-
implementation of SDR recommendations. menti mimoixilavs saqarTvelos winaSe arsebul da
potenciur safrTxeebs, romlis gaTvaliswinebiTac
It is important to note that it is the first document of such xorcieldeba SeiaraRebuli Zalebis dagegmva da
type and scale to ever have been elaborated at the MoD. maTi ganviTarebis ZiriTadi mimarTulebebis dad-
Also within the framework of this document, for the first time gena. aRsaniSnavia, rom ,,ministris xedvis~ dokumen-
in the Georgian defence system, mid and long term plan- ti gasul welsac gamoica, magram igi moicavda mxo-
ning was established with accompanying elements such lod 2007 wlisTvis Tavdacvis saministros ZiriTad
as elaborating various planning documents, forming force prioritetul mimarTulebebs, ama wlis 7 Tebervals
structure (regarding threats and resources) and resource damtkicebuli dokumenti ki moicavs Tavdacvis sa-
calculations. ministrosa da gaerTianebuli Stabis priorite-
tul mimarTulebebs 2011 wlis CaTvliT. dokumentis
The second important document is Minister`s Vision yovelwliuri SemuSaveba da gadaxedva Tavdacvis
2008-2011, inured on March 7 of this year. This document dagegmvis ciklis mniSvnelovani komponentia. ,,mi-

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nistris xedva~ iTvaliswinebs erovnuli samxedro presents a general guidance for MoD and GAF develop-
strategiis daskvnebs da qmnis gaerTianebuli Stabis ment. Minister` s Vision reviews potential threats that Geor-
ZiriTadi saxelmZRvanelo dokumentis –,,Tavdacvis gia is facing and, based on this assessment, discusses
dagegmvis saxelmZRvanelos~(romelsac win uswrebs force planning and the main directions of the GAF’s devel-
,,Tavdacvis miTiTebebis” SemuSaveba)- SemuSavebis opment. It is notable that Minister`s Vision was also pub-
safuZvels. garda amisa, ,,ministris xedvis~ daskv- lished last year, though it covered the main priority direc-
nebi warmoadgens aucilebel safuZvels Tavdacvis tions of MoD for 2007 only, and the same document of this
programebis SemuSaveba-ganxorcielebisaTvis da year (approved on February 7) covers priority directions of
konkretul etapze koreqtirebis SetanisaTvis. MoD and Joint Staff through 2011.

,,ministris xedva 2008-2011~ gansakuTrebul yura- Annual elaboration and review of this document is a signifi-
dRebas uTmobs da umTavresad orientirebulia Tav- cant component of Defence Planning cycle. Minister` s vi-
dacvis strategiuli mimoxilvis Semajamebel moxsen- sion considers conclusions of National Military Strategy and
ebis rekomendaciebis ganxorcielebaze. dokumentSi prepares the ground for Defence Instructions and Defence
agreTve xazgasmulia nato-s winaSe aRebuli valdeb- Planning Guidance, which is the main source of guidance
ulebebis Sesrulebis mniSvneloba. for MoD and Joint Staff. Besides, Minister` s Vision gives
us the necessary ground in order to prepare and implement
saqarTvelos erovnuli usafrTxoebis interesebidan
defence programs.
gamomdinare, ZiriTadi dokumenti struqturulad
Sedgeba sami elementisagan – Tavdacvis sistemis
Minister` s Vision 2008-2011 pays significant attention to
marTvis gaumjobeseba, nato-Si integraciis proce-
the implementation of SDR recommendations The docu-
sis xelSewyoba da SeiaraRebuli Zalebis sabrZolo
ment also emphasizes the importance of NATO commit-
SesaZleblobebis ganviTareba. aRsaniSnavia, rom pri-
ments implementation. Due to Georgian National Security
oritetebis aRniSnuli formiT dayofa pirobiTia,
isini erTmaneTTan mWidro kavSirSia da xSir SemTx- interests, document structurally consists of three elements
vevaSi urTierTgamomdinare. – improvement of Defence System management, facilita-
tion of NATO integration process and development of GAF
dokumentSi Camoyalibebuli prioritetuli mi- combat capabilities. It should be mentioned that the divi-
marTulebebi SeiaraRebuli Zalebis yvela SesaZle- sion of priorities in such way is conditional, as they are in
blobebis proporciulad ganviTarebis karg winapi- close interaction and are constantly evolving.
robas qmnis. kerZod, masSi maqsimalurad dabalanse-
bulia, rogorc sabrZolo SesaZleblobebis kompo- Priority directions given in the document create a good pre-
nentebis, agreTve nato-Si integraciis da Tavdacvis condition for proportional development of all capabilities of
sistemis marTvis komponentebis ganviTarebisTvis the Georgian Armed Forces. There are maximally balanced
aucilebeli RonisZiebebi. combat capability components, as well as necessary ac-
tivities for NATO integration and development of Defence
amrigad, zemoTxsenebuli dokumentebi SeiaraRe- System management components.
buli Zalebis ganviTarebis mniSvnelovani gzamkvle-
via. aRniSnul dokumentebze dayrdnobiT, Tavdacvis In conclusion, the above mentioned documents are pivotal
saministro gadava dagegmvis, programirebis da pathfinders for the development of Georgia’s Armed Forces.
biujetirebis Semdeg etapze - Tavdacvis programe- Base on these documents, MOD will step forward the next
bis ganviTarebasa da SemuSavebaze, ris safuZvelzec stage of PPBS – Elaboration of defence programs – and
Seiqmneba 2009 wlis Tavdacvis biujeti. this will serve as a ground for the 2009 Defence Budget.

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 `imiji bunebrivad
baTu quTelia:
yalibdeba imiT, rasac akeTeb~
persona/Profile

nana inwkirveli
Nana Intskirveli

Mr. Batu Kutelia has been working at the Min- weliwadze metia, rac batoni baTu quTelia
istry of Defence of Georgia for more than a Tavdacvis saministroSi muSaobs.. jer min-
year. First he was appointed the Deputy Min- istris moadgilis Tanamdebobaze dainiSna.
axla ministris pirveli moadgilisa da sa-
ister of Defence. Now he is the First Deputy
parlamento mdivanis posti ukavia. iyo sa-
Defence Minister and Parliamentary Secre- gareo saqmeTa da uSiSroebis ministrebis
tary. Before, he worked as Deputy Minister of moadgile, sagareo dazvervis specialuri
Foreign Affairs, Deputy Minister of Security samsaxuris ufrosi. sakmaod komunikabelu-
and Chief of Special Service of Foreign Intel- ria, arasodes gaurbis mediasTan TanamSrom-
ligence. He is very sociable, never avoids co- lobas. urTierTobaSi mSvidi da gawonas-
operation with media representatives. He is worebulia, muSaobaSi - sakmaod kritikuli
da ukompromiso. sjeravs im saqmis, rasac
very calm and balanced, while very critical
akeTebs; guls stkens usamarTloba da uma-
and demanding at work. He believes in what duroba. sakuTar Tavzec bevrjer gadauta-
he is doing; he feels disappointed when he nia, magram samagieros gadaxdaze arasdros
sees injustice and ingratitude. He has experi- fiqrobs.

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 “what you are doing
baTu kuTelia:

naturally creates your image”

ar dagzardebaT da bevrs gesaubrebaT qveynis enced this himself though he never thinks
Tavdacvis sferoSi bolo periodSi miRweul of revenge. He is very verbose when talking
Sedegebze. ambobs ,,Cven~ da ar uyvars sakuTar about the recent achievements in defence
Tavze saubari. yvelaferze da rasakvirve-
sphere. He likes to use `we~ and does not
lia am Temaze sakuTari argumentebi gaaCnia.
Cvens SemTxvevaSic ase moxda. danarCens mas- like to speak about himself. He has his argu-
Tan interviuSi waikiTxavT: ments on everything and on this particular
topic as well. You can read more about this
in the interview below:
daviwyoT imiT, rom jer iseTi araferi gamikeTebia,
ufro sworad jer iseTi araferi gagvikeTebia, gan- I’d say that I have not done anything yet; more precisely we
sakuTrebiT saamayod rom gvqondes saqme. amas al-
have not done anything yet to be proud of. This probably is a
baT dro sWirdeba. gasakeTebeli ki marTlac bevria.
Tumca aRsaniSnavia, rom reformebis kuTxiT mniS- time-consuming process. We have lots of things to do. But it is
vnelovani progresi gvaqvs. is, rom qarTuli jari worth mentioning that the progress in the process of reforms
sazogadoebis mxardaWeriT sargeblobs da misi pop- is evident. The fact that the Georgian Army enjoys full sup-
ularoba dRiTidRe izrdeba Cveni mTavari miRwevaa, port of the public and its popularity is rising day-by-day is our
riTac marTlac vamayob. main achievement. I am really very proud of this.

mis samuSao oTaxSi gansakuTrebuli araferi

You will not see anything special in his study. On the larger-
mogxvdebaT TvalSi. magida sakmaoze didia,
romelic uamravi dokuments, samxedro da teqni-
than-usual table, there are numerous documents, military and
kur literaturas itevs. mudam CarTulia tele- technical literature. The TV set is always turned on. I have
vizori. interviu cota sxvagvarad mqonda dageg- planned to take the interview with fewer official questions, but
mili, mindoda oficialuri SekiTxvebi naklebad I realized that without this I could not create the full portrait of
damesva, magram mivxvdi, rom amis gareSe respon- my respondent. I saw the English-Georgian edition of Strategic
dentis srul portrets ver davxatavdi. Tav- Defence Review document on the table. This important docu-
dacvis strategiuli mimoxilvis qarTul-ingli- ment dictated the first question to me.
sur enaze dabeWdil dokuments Sevavle Tvali.
pirveli SekiTxvac am mniSvnelovanma dokumentma
mikarnaxa. The Strategic Defence Review is the first conceptual docu-
ment in the history of the Georgian Armed Forces that de-
qarTuli SeiaraRebuli Zalebis istoriaSi pirve- fines the development of the Georgian Armed Forces in a
lad moxda aseTi mniSvnelobis konceptualuri long-term perspective, its structural modification, adaptation
dokumentis SemuSaveba. igi didxnian perspeqti- to existing threats and concrete ways to achieve these results.
vaSi gansazRvravs saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Za- This was a rather difficult and painstaking process. Many
lebis ganviTarebas, mis struqturul cvlilebas,
NATO countries have not yet finished their Strategic Defence
arsebuli safrTxeebisadmi adaptirebas da im konk-
retul RonisZiebebs, romliTac es Sedegebi unda Review process so successfully. This was recognized by NATO
iyos miRweuli. es sakmaod rTuli da Sromatevadi experts as well. We have not done this to please NATO, their
procesi iyo. natos bevr qveyanas ase warmatebiT ar experts or other international organizations. This was done
dausrulebia Tavdacvis strategiuli mimoxilvis for Georgia, for its security and combat capability. The fact
procesi. rac natos eqspertebmac aRniSnes. es ar that it defined till 2015 what steps our Armed Forces will un-

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dergo, how the army will be financed, what equipment and gakeTebula imisaTvis, rom gvesiamovnebina natos,
technique it would have, what structural changes are expected maTi eqspertebis an sxva romelime saerTaSoriso
is a great achievement and key to stability of our country. This organizaciisaTvis. es gakeTda saqarTvelos, misi
usafrTxoebisa da Tavdacvisunarianobis uzrunve-
document guarantees the combat capability and security of
lyofisaTvis. is, rom 2015 wlamde gansazRvrulia ra
our country for quite a long period of time. etapebs gaivlis Cveni SeiaraRebuli Zalebi, rogor
iqneba is dafinansebuli, rogori SeiaraReba da
We continue our conversation about the main priority of our teqnika eqneba, ra struqturuli cvlilebebi unda
country – NATO integration. We have one step forward – how moxdes, aris didi miRweva da qveynis stabilurobis
the final evaluation of NATO Assessment Team will impact maCvenebeli. am dokumentiT sakmaod did periodSi
Georgia’s move to the next stage in relationship with NATO uzrunvelyofilia qveynis Tavdacvisunarianoba
da usafrTxoeba. arasamTavroboTa da erqspertTa
–MAP (Membership Action Plan).
monawileoba SDR-Si Cveni saministros `Know How~-a.

We have not received such a positive evaluation yet. This year saubars qveynis erT-erT mTavar prioritetze -
in Brussels, at the NATO HQ at the PARP meeting, all the re- nato-Si gawevrianebaze vagrZelebT. win kidev
forms implemented in the defence sphere and in the Georgian erTi safexuria - ramdenad Seuwyobs xels na-
Armed Forces were evaluated positively. Even those skeptical tos SemfasebelTa jgufis mier saqarTveloze
countries that were very critical of our decisions unanimously momzadebuli daskvna Crdiloatlantikur ali-
acknowledged that all the reforms implemented during the ansTanTanamSromlobis axal safexurze - MAP-ze
gadasvlas.
previous year complied with international standards. All this
creates a favorable background for morally fair and just re- aseTi pozitiuri Sefaseba jer ar migviRia. wels
quest for MAP at Bucharest Summit. It is natural that this is briuselSi, natos Stab-binaSi, sadac Tavdacvis anu
a political decision and depends on other factors as well, but PARP-is Sexvedra gaimarTa, Tadacvis sferosa da
it is a fact that Defence Ministry showed good results, thus saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul ZalebSi ganxorciele-
creating a positive background for political decisions. buli yvela reforma warmatebulad Sefasda. TviT
iseTi skeptikuri qveynebi, romlebic xSirad gvakri-
tikebdnen miRebuli gadawyvetilebebis gamo, erTx-
Why is our northern neighbor – Russia – so touchy on the issue
mad aRiareben, rom erTi wlis ganmavlobaSi gatare-
of Georgia’s NATO aspirations? buli yvela reforma Tanamedrove saerTaSoriso
standartebs akmayofilebda. yvelaferi es, ukve
It would take a while to discuss the real reasons. Russia has qnis xelsayrel fons, raTa buqarestSi moralurad
to be more interested in a very safe, economically powerful gamaTlebuli iyos Cven mier MAP is - moTxovna. une-
Georgia as its south flanks should be more secure. Russia brivia, es aris politikuri gadawyvetileba da sxva
should be more interested to see Georgia find its place in the faqtorebzea damokidebuli. magram faqtia, rom
Tavdacvis saministrom aCvena Zalian kargi Sedege-
global security framework. It’s very difficult to predict how
bi, riTac xeli Seuwyo politikuri gadawyvetilebi-
Russia is able to have this position. But whenever this issue saTvis sasurveli fonis Seqmnas.
will be placed on the agenda Russia won’t allow this. The
same situation occurred in case of the Baltic States when they Cveni Crdiloeli mezobeli, ruseTi, ratom aRiq-
were seeking NATO membership. Russia had a very acute re- vams ase mtkivneulad saqarTvelos natosken mis-
action. According to their logic when an ex-Soviet country wrafebas.
becomes a NATO member regional stability and security is
threatened. But it did not turn out that way. realuri mizezebis gaanilizebas gacilebiT meti
dro dasWirdeba. usafrTxo, ekonomikurad Zlieri
saqarTvelo ufro unda Sediodes ruseTis inter-
As for Russian tactic I can see parallels with the Baltic States. esebSi Tundac imitom, rom Tavisi samxreTi flange-
At first Russia was categorically against these countries be- bi usafrTxod hqondes. ruseTi dainteresebuli
coming NATO members. Then, realizing that this process unda iyos, rom saqarTvelom ipovos Tavisi adgili
was irreversible, Russia demanded their neutrality. When the msoflio usafrTxoebis arqitequraSi. ramdenad
Baltic States became NATO members, Russia adapted to it. da rodis SesZlebs ruseTi am poziciis gaziare-
The Russian position towards us is the following – it demands bas amaze prognozis gakeTeba Znelia. magram drois
raRac etapze es sakiTxi dadgeba dRis wesrigSi
our neutrality… Maybe the next stage will come soon.
da ruseTi amas Seegueba. ase iyo baltiispireTis
qveynebis SemTxvevaSic, roca isini Crdiloatlan-
What response should you give to the opponents who mention tikur aliansSi gawevrianebaze acxadebdnen pre-
very frequently that Georgia has to concede its own conflict tenzias. ruseTs amaze mwvave reaqcia hqonda, maTi
zones in exchange for NATO membership? logikiT, roca yofili sabWoTa kavSiris qveyana

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xdeba natos wevri, safrTxe eqmneba regionlur sta- I think that it is a cliche. If we analyze NATO enlargement
bilurobasa da usafrTxoebas. Tumca integraciis stages, we will be assured that the North-Atlantic Alliance has
procesma sruliad sapirispiro mastabilizirebeli always taken unprecedented decisions. Germany became a
roli iTamaSa. NATO member country when it was divided into two parts.
Thus, Western Germany never conceded its second part. Ger-
rac Seexeba ruseTis taqtikas, paralelebs vxedav
many was united just after its integration to NATO. The cases
igive baltiispireTis qveynebis magaliTze. is jer
kategoriulad ewinaaRmdegeboda am qveynebis nato- of Turkey and Greece are also unprecedented. They became
Si gawevrianebas, mere roca mixvda, rom es procesi the members of the Alliance when they were in conflicts. The
Seuqcevadi iyo, moiTxova maTi neitraliteti. roca Spanish example is also unprecedented – this country was
baltiispireTis qveynebi natos wevri gaxda, is amas integrated in the Alliance without any reforms and NATO in-
Seegua. CvenTan mimarTebaSi, amJamad ruseTis pozi- teroperability system. It was a purely political decision. Let’s
cia aseTia - is Cvens neitralitets iTxovs... albaT see the example of the Baltic States. Russia always tried to in-
Semdegi etapic male dadgeba. sist that a country can’t become a NATO member if it doesn’t
have clearly defined borders. But Latvia doesn’t have a delim-
ra pasuxs gascemT oponentebs, romlebic xSirad ited border with Russia till today and this wasn’t an obstacle
mianiSneben imaze, rom natoSi gawevrianebis san-
for its integration into the Alliance. Actually our conflicts
acvlod saqarvelos mouwevs sakuTar teritorie-
pose a problem within the integration process. When there is
bze uaris Tqma, an imaze, rom konfliqtebis mogva-
rebis gareSe integraciis procesi Seferxdeba? a conversation relating to Membership Action Plan, our argu-
ment is that when Georgia moves to the next stage we’ll have
saqarTvelo Tavis teritoriaze arasodes ityvis political leverage or support from our European partners at
uars da saerTaSoriso Tanamegobrobac srulad uW- that time when integration issue is on the agenda. There is a
ers mxars saqarTvelos teritoriul mTlianobas. possibility of resolving the conflicts by peaceful means.

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ojaxTan
with the family

After Kosovo independence there are consultations that the kiTxvis meore nawils rac Seexeba, vfiqrob, rom mainc
same precedents will be repeated in connection with Abkhazia stereotipuli kliSea. natos gafarToebis etapebs
and South Ossetia. Thus, we always hear that the Abkhazian Tu gavaanalizebT, davrwmundebiT, rom Crdiloat-
lantikuri aliansi yovelTvis iRebda uprecendento
model is quite different from the Kosovo precedent…
gadawyvetilebebs. germania maSin gaxda natos wevri
qveyana, rodesac is orad iyo gayofili. miuxedavad
Here only one principle is the most important – in the Abk- amisa, dasavleT germanias arasdros uTqvams uari
hazian model Georgians are the victims of ethnic cleansing. Tavis meore naxevarze, swored nato-Si gawevriane-
Against this background the recognition of independence bis Semdeg moxerxda germaniis gaerTianeba. aseve up-
means the legitimization of ethnic cleansing. The international recendentoa TurqeTisa da saberZneTis SemTxveva.
community never allows this. Kosovo is a unique case – justice isini maSin gaxdnen aliansis wevrebi, rodesac maT
was restored with the assistance of the international communi- hqondaT konfliqti. es iyo wminda politikuri gad-
awyvetileba. aviRoT igive baltiispireTis qveynebi.
ty, so the people who were expatriated by force returned to their
ruseTi yovelTvis cdilobda daemtkicebina, rom
residence places. Our first and most important demand is to
qveyana, romelsac ara aqvs Camoyalibebuli saz-
return everybody who lived in Abkhazia and had to leave their Rvrebi, ar SeiZleba gaxdes natos wevri. magram lat-
own places of residence. After this we’ll take care of other kind vias dRemde ara aqvs ruseTTan delimitirebuli
of political problems and resolve them in a peaceful manner… sazRvari da es ar gamxdara gawevrianebisTvis dab-
rkoleba. rac Seexeba konfliqtebs, integraciis
The parliamentary secretary is in charge of presenting the procesis daCqarebaSi is marTlac gviqmnis proble-
policy and position of the Ministry. At the same time, it im- mas. roca saubaria samoqmedo gegmasTan dakavSire-
plies contact with the media and the public. Is it all the same biT, Cveni argumenti aris is, rom roca saqarTvelo
gadava Semdeg etapze, Cven gveqneba politikuri ber-
for Batu Kutelia what people think? Though he states that he
keti anu zurgi Cveni dasavleli partniorebisa da
doesn’t use special methods for image creation... im momentisaTvis, roca dRis wesrigSi gawevrianebis
sakiTxi dadgeba. arsebobs imis SesaZlebloba, rom es
If I implement my assignments well then my image should not konfliqti ukve mowesrigebuli gvqondes mSvidobi-
be negative likewise. Otherwise I am not appropriate for this ani gziT.

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kosovos aRiarebis Semdeg daiwyo saubari imaze, position. Hence, in my relationship with others I always try to
rom msgavsi precendenti afxazeTsa da oseTTan raise the barriers between me and the people whom my deci-
mimarTebaSic ganmeordeboda. Tumca paralelu- sions influence. Of course, I mean Army and Armed Forces,
rad sul ismis, rom afxazeTis magaliTi arsebi-
the people behind whom stand their families and who are a
Tad gansxvavdeba kosovos modelisagan...
huge part of our society. I try to hold informal meetings with
aq amosavali erTi principia - afxazeTis SemTxvevaSi them, to be aware of their problems and points of view. I con-
qarTvelebi eTnikuri wmendis msxverplni arian. amis sider this to be my responsibility, not taking care of my image.
fonze damoukideblobis aRiareba niSnavs eTnikuri Of course image depends on the man’s behavior – what he is
wmendis dakanonebas, rasac saerTaSoriso Taname- doing or how he is doing everything. Society is well informed
gobroba araviTar SeTxvevaSi ar dauSvebs. kosovos about the ongoing processes. So it is impossible to mislead
SemTxvevaSi ki piriqiT moxda - saerTaSoriso Tana-
it using artificial methods. In my view, sincerity is the most
megobrobis daxmarebiT aRdga samarTlianoba, anu
xalxi, vinc iZulebiT iyo gaZevebuli, daubrunda important thing.
TavianT sacxovrebel adgilebs. Cveni pirveli da um-
Tavresi moTxovna is aris, rom afxazeTSi dabrundes When you were entering the Engineering-physical Faculty of
yvela, vinc iq cxovrobda da iZulebiT mouxda Tavi- the Technical University of Georgia, you could not imagine
si saxl-karis datoveba. amis Semdeg konfliqtis mS- that you would mostly work in the diplomatic service. Other-
vidobiani mogvareba gacilebiT martivi gaxdeba. wise you’d choose relevant profession. So how do you explain
such radical changes in your career?
saparlamento mdivans saministros politikis,
misi poziciis warmoCena evaleba, rac imavdroulad
sazogadoebis da mediis samsjavroze yofnas gu- I have never thought that I would ever work in diplomatic or
lisxmobs. baTu quTeliasTvis sulerTi ar aris ras public service. Fate decreed that, when I completed the post-
fiqrobs masze xalxi. Tumca acxadebs, rom imijis graduate course, I entered the GIPA, the Georgian Institute
Sesaqmnelad xelovnur meTodebs ar mimarTavs. of Public Affairs that just opened then. It happened unexpect-
edly. My university friends and I were just sitting and talking
Tu Cemze dakisrebul saqmes kargad vakeTeb imijic when one of them started to speak about this institute. We
Seabamisad cudi ar unda iyos. da Tu ara ese igi ar
decided to take the entrance examinations. When they told us
var Sesaferisi am TanamdebobisaTvis. Tumca urT-
ierTobisas yovelTvis vzrunav movSalo barieri that study would start in September we were a little bit lazy.
Cemsa da im xalxs Soris, viszedac gadawyvetilebas However, September came and we become the first students…
viReb. bunebrivia, vgulisxmob jars da SeiaraRebul then one of the first graduates of this institute.
Zalebs, xalxs, vis ukanac dgas ojaxebi da romlebic
Cveni sazogadoebis did nawils warmoadgenen. vcdi- Did you find any similarities between physics and diplomacy?
lob araformalur viTarebaSi Sevxvde maT, vicode
maTi problemebi, Sexedulebebi. magram mimaCnia,
No doubt, they have something in common and it often helped
rom es aris imis nawili, rac me mevaleba da ara imi-
jze gansakuTrebuli zrunva. imiji bunebrivad
me when I was in diplomatic service. Logical thinking always
yalibdeba imiT, rasac akeTeb da rogor akeTeb. sa- helps you to find the right solution to a problem and this is
zogadoeba dRes sakmaod kargadaa informirebuli the main task of diplomacy.
mimdinare procesebze. xelovnuri meTodebiT maTi
mosyidva da SecdomaSi Seyvana SeuZlebelia. mTa- Today we are in the process of bringing new equipment and
varia gulwrfeloba. armament to the Georgian Armed Forces. Physics helps me
become familiar with the specifications of each weapon. So I
albaT, rodesac teqnikur universitetis sainJin-
find physics quite useful.
ro fizikis fakultetze abarebdiT ar gifiqriaT,
rom umetesad diplomatiur samsaxurSi imuSaveb-
diT. amgvari survilis SemTxvevaSi SeiZleba arCe- Your lecturers would be glad to hear this from you…
vanic Sesabamisi yofiliyo. riT axsniT karieraSi
aseT radikalur cvlilebas. My lecturers who were trying to urge us to love physics always
said that it was not only the subject – it was the fundamental
arsdros mifiqria, rom diplomatiaSi an sajaro sam- science like mathematics and philosophy.
saxurSi movxvdebodi. Cemi ocneba iyo gavmxdariyavi
fizikosi da gavxdi kidec. bedma ise gansazRvra, aspi-
raturis damTavrebis Semdeg sruliad daugegmavad Society sees Batu Kutelia as a serious State official. However,
movxvdi saqarvelos sazogadoebriv saqmeTa insti- everyone is curious about the private life of public people. So I
tutSi. `jipa~ axali gaxsnili iyo. me da Cemi mego- asked him to forget that he was the Deputy Defence Minister
brebi, anu `gepeiSnikebi~ dakavebuli viyaviT trad- for a moment. He agreed and warned – “I am sure that my
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stage career would be unsuccessful because I can not act. This iciuli saqmianobiT, anu dros vklavdiT. saubarma
is what I am.” moitana da viRacam sazogadoebriv saqmeTa insti-
tuts sityvieri reklama gauwia. modi vcados prin-
And what can you say about Batu Kutelia at home… cipiT gavediT testirebaze. roca gviTxres swavla
seqtemberSi dagvewyeboda cota ki dagvezara, ma-
gram movida seqtemberi da isev vcadeT... ase gavxdiT
I am a usual family man. I try to spend the week-end with the
am saswavleblis erT-erTi pirveli kursdamTavreb-
family. We go skiing in Bakuriani and Gudauri. ulebi.

Is skiing your hobby? fizikasa da diplomatiaSi saerTo ipoveT?

No, my hobby is physics. Skiing is like attraction. msgavsebebi udaod aris, rac xSirad mexmareboda,
roca diplomatiur samsaxurSi viyavi. logikuri az-
Skiing is now a fashionable kind of sports. Some people even rovneba yovelTvis gexmareba ukeTesi gamosavlis
joke that it became a sport of the elite… moZiebaSi, rac diplomatiis mTavari amocnaa.

dRes saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul ZalebSi axali

I had already had good results in skiing when it became fash-
teqnikuri aRWurvilobisa da iaraRis SeZena-dan-
ionable. I am grateful to one of the physicists for this, who is a
ergvis procesi mimdinareobs. fizikis codna mex-
good friend of my father and my family. Certainly I teach my mareba zustad mivxvde ama Tu im iaraRis Sinaarss.
son this kind of sport. Recently when we were in Bakuriani, mokled, ise ar aris fizika viswavle da sadRac
he was happy as he skied with soldiers. Taroze damrCa.

I often see you with your son Saba at military bases… Tqvens leqtorebs gauxardebaT amis mosmena. . .

swavleba “Georgian
swavleba Express”-ze
“Georgian Express”-ze
During the
During the Exercise
Exercise “Georgian
“Georgian Express”
Express”

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Cemi leqtorebi, romlebic cdilobdnen CvenTvis He is a boy and I want him to know what the army, the service
ufro metad SeeyvarebinaT fizika, sul imas maswav- is. Why I leave home every day and why he seldom sees me.
lidnen, rom fizika ara aris marto is, rasac swav- As for Nutsa, she is an infant – just three months old, so I will
lobT. is aris fundamentaluri mecniereba, iseve
have to explain something to her later. They say that she looks
rogorc maTematika da filosofia.
like me and I am happy about that.
baTu quTelias sazogadoeba umetesad serio-
zuli saxelmwifo moxelis ampluaSi xedavs, Tum- Do you have to give some explanation to your wife, or do you
ca yvelas yovelTvis ainteresebs popularuli think that being a spouse is a profession?
adamianebis piradi cxovreba. vTxove cota xniT
daeviwyebina, rom ministris pirveli moadgile If you consider something you love a profession then it might
iyo. dagvTanxmda da Tan gagvafrTxila - zustad
be assumed to be a profession. In my view, marriage is a re-
vici raSic warmateba ar meqneba samsaxiobo kari-
eraa, rac var es var. lationship and without this it would be difficult to achieve
success in career. If I am a success, my wife played a big role
da rogori xarT saxlSi? in this.

saxlSi Ceveulebrivi var. SabaT-kviras vcdilob Do you need anything to feel happy?
ojaxTan erTad sadme gavide. miyvars bakurianSi da
da gudaurSi sriali.
Frankly speaking I’d consider myself the happiest man if this
Txilamurebi Tqveni hobia?
interview had been recorded in Sokhumi.

ara, hobad fizika damrCa. Txilamurebi ufro gata-

cebaa.

TxilamurebiT sriali moduria, xandaxan xumro-

ben ,,elitaruli~ sporti gaxdao...

Txilamurebi roca moduri gaxda, me ukve kargi Sede-

gi mqonda. es Cemi mSoblebisa da ufrosi megobrebis
damsaxurebaa. Tavis mxriv Cems Svils vaswavli. cota
xnis win bakurianSi jariskacebTan erTad visria-
leT. Zalian bednieri iyo.

sabasTan erTad jaris nawilebSic xsirad minaxix-

arT. . .

biWia da minda naxos ra aris jari, ra aris is samsax-

uri, ris gamoc yoveldRe gamovdivar saxlidan da
iSviaTad mxedavs. nuca jer pataraa, 3 Tvisaa, mere
misTvisac momixdeba raRacaebis axsna. amboben mamas
gavso da Zalian mixaria. . .

meuRlisaTvis gixdebaT raimes axsna Tu TvliT,

rom meuRleoba profesiaa?

Tu adamiani profesiad ganixilav imas, rac giyvars

maSin is profesiaa. meuRleoba CemTvis urTierTo-
baa, ris gareSe sazogadoebriv asparezze warmateba
warmoudgenelia. ase, rom Tu warmatebuli var amaSi
Cemi meuRlis didi wvlilia.

bednierebisaTvis raime gakliaT?

gulwrfelad getyviT, axla bednierad CavTlidi

Tavs, es interviu rom soxumSi iwerebodes. nucasTan erTad
with nutsa

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 unikaluri SemTxveva,
aqcenti/Spotlight

romelic unikalur
gadawyvetas iTxovs
maka gurgeniZe
maka Gurgenidze

Prehistory of Kosovo kosovos preistoria

The dispute over Kosovo territory has a long kosovos teritoriul davas aswleulebis
history. Albanians argued for being the di- istoria aqvs. albanelebi, Tavs balkaneTis
rect descendants of the Illyrians - the earli- naxevarkunZulis dasavleT nawilis (iliria)
est known inhabitants of the West Balkan. The mkvidri mosaxleobis STamomavlebad miiC-
main evidence of the Serbian side is that Kos- neven. serbebis pretenzia teritoriaze gan-
ovo was the administrative and cultural cen- mtikebulia istoriuli faqtiT, rom kosovo
ter of the medieval Serbian state. serbeTis Suasaukuneebis samefos politikur
da kulturul centrs warmoadgenda.
The long-term dispute turned into a new historical stage in 1970s.
After gaining internal autonomy in 1974, the Albanian population 1970 - ian wlebSi saukuneebis dapirispireba axal
required the full recognition as a Republic within the Yugoslav istoriul etapze gadavida. 1974 wels avtonomiuri
Federation. By that time, ethnic Albanians became a majority (90 statusis miniWebis Semdeg, albanurma mosaxleobam

mebrZolTa saflavebi
combatants’ cemetries

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Unique Case that Demands the
Unique Solution

iugoslaviis SemadgenlobaSi calke respublikad

Sesvla moiTxova, rasac win uZRvoda demografi-
uli cvlilebebi eTnikuri albanelebis sasarge-
blod (ukve 80 ian wlebisTvis kosovos teritori-
aze mosaxleobis 90%-s albanelebi Seadgendnen).
oficialurma belgradma mdgomareobis ganmuxtva
regionis statusis SecvliT scada, rasac kosovos
parlamentis mxridan damoukideblobis gamocxa-
deba mohyva. 1998 wels serb samxedro - sapolicio
Zalebsa da kosovos albanur dajgufebebs Soris
SeiaraRebulma dapirispirebam 1500 kosovoeli al-
banelis sikvdili da 400 000 adamianis sacxovrebeli
adgilis datoveba gamoiwvia. sakiTxis gamwvavebam
saerTaSoriso Tanamegobrobas konfliqtis swrafi
da efeqturi gadawyvetisken ubiZga, risi valdeb-
ulebac natos samxedro Zalebma ikisres. 1999 wels
natos jarebma kosovoSi serb samxedroebze sahaero iap de hoop sxeferi adgilobriv
dartymebis ganxorcieleba daiwyes, rasac Tan kosovoel albanelebTan
daerTo mTeli iugoslaviis masStabiT mniSvnelo- jaap de hoop scheffer with local
vani samizneebis dabombva. sahaero omi daaxloebiT kosovo albanians
sam Tves gagrZelda. miuxedavad imis, rom samxedro
Careva konfliqtis ganmuxtvas da ltolvilTa dab- percent of full ‘population by ‘80s) of Kosovo population. The of-
runebis xelSewyobas isaxavda miznad, natos opera- ficial Belgrade drastically reduced Kosovo’s special autonomous
ciebs saxelmwifoTa erTi jgufis mxridan mwvave status in an attempt to ease inter-ethnic tension. In response, the
reaqcia mohyva. ruseTisa da CineTis uaryofiTi local parliament declared the independence of Kosovo.
damokidebuleba `humanitaruli Carevis uflebis~
mimarT, gamowveuli iyo im garemoebiT, rom Care- Disagreements between the two governments sparked an open
vis axali principis Camoyalibebas SesaZloa isinic conflict between Serbian military and police forces and Kosovo
eqcia saerTaSoriso intervenciis obieqtebad. es Albanian forces. The military conflict caused over 1,500 deaths of
sakiTxi gansakuTrebiT aqtualuri ruseTisTvis Kosovo Albanians and forced 400,000 people to leave their homes
iyo, radgan CeCneTis omma adamianis uflebebTan in 1998.
dakavSirebiT mTeli rigi problemebi warmoSva. am-
denad, humanitaruli samarTlis normis Camoyal- Kosovo became the subject of warning for the international com-
ibeba Teoriulad mainc uSvebda dasavleTis Carevas munity. World known organizations have been looking for ways
ruseTis Sida politikaSi. amas garda, ruseTi frTx- to avoid the conflict escalation. NATO‘s military forces assumed
ilobda, rom kosovo saSiSi precendenti iqneboda a responsibility to resolve the problem. In 1999, air bombing
CrdiloeT kavkasiuri respublikebisTvis. campaign initially aimed to distort only Serbian military forces
continued with the strategic bombardment all over the Yugoslav
kosovos statusi territory. The air war lasted approximately three months.

bunebrivia, saerTaSoriso urTierTobebSi kosovos NATO had the honest mission to bring the people back to their
statusis irgvliv araerTgvarovani damokidebule- homes and build a lasting and just peace in Kosovo. However, one

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 ba arsebobs. dasavleTi kosovos `kontrolirebad
damoukideblobas~, xolo serbuli modeli serbe-
Tis SemadgenlobaSi kosovos `farTo avtonomias~
uWerda mxars.

2006 wels serbiis sagareo saqmeTa ministrma v.

draSkoviCma da serbiis mTavrobis Tavmjdomarem
v. koStunicam dRis wesrigSi Semoitanes sakiTxi
kosovos `farTo avtonomiis~ Sesaxeb, romelic iT-
valiswinebda: kosovos integracias evropul insti-
tutebSi, kosovos warmomadgenlobas TiTqmis yvela
saerTaSoriso organizaciasa da organoSi, gaeros
gamoklebiT da xelisuflebis samive Stos Seqmnas.
Tumca, imavdroulad, kosovos damoukideblobis
marti ahtisaari da de hoop sxeferi amgvari xedva serbiis dRevandeli gare sazRvrebis
martti ahtisaari and jaap de hoop scheffer urRvevobas da serbuli mosaxleobis usafrTxoebis
garantiebsac gulisxmobda.
group of countries had a different reaction to this fact. Russia and
China considered negatively “the right of humanitarian interven- am midgomis sapirispirod, 2007 wlis 26 marts gaeros
tion,” since the new principles of intervention could have caused specialurma warmomadgenelma kosovos sakiTxeb-
them to be the object of intervention themselves. Obviously, the Si martti axtisaarma sakontaqto jgufis wevrebs
question was more acute for Russia as a violator of human rights (ruseTi, aSS, didi britaneTi, Ggermania, italia da
in Chechnya. Hence, implementation of humanitarian norms sup- safrangeTi) kosovos momavali statusis Sesaxeb
posed western intervention in Russian internal policy at least theo- gegma warudgina: `kosovos uaxlesi istoriis gul-
retically. Besides, Russia apprehended that the Kosovo case could dasmiT Seswavlis fonze da kosovos dRevandeli
become a dangerous precedent for its North Caucasian republics. realobidan gamomdinare, aseve mxareebTan mola-
parakebebis safuZvelze me davsakveni, rom erTad-
The status of Kosovo erTi sicocxlisunariani arCevani dRes kosovosT-
vis aris damoukidebloba, romelic sawyis etapze
Kosovo status is still controversial on the international level. West- saerTaSoriso Tanamegobrobis mier unda gakontr-
ern states supported “supervised autonomy” while the Serbian oldes~ axtisaari Tavis gegmaSi aRniSnavs, rom Seu-
model insisted on the broadest autonomy and the highest degree Zlebelia kosovo mudmivad gaeros meTvalyureobis
of self-government only within universally recognized borders of qveS darCes. serbeTis SemadgenlobaSi im terito-
Serbia. riis dabrunebas, romlis mosaxleobis umravleso-
basac albanelebi Seadgenen, is `uimedos~ uwodebs
In 2006, “substantive autonomy” was proposed by the foreign min- da daskvniT debulebaSi ganmartavs: `kosovo unika-
ister Vuk Draskovic and Prime Minister of Serbia Vojislav Koshtuni- luri SemTxvevaa, romelic unikalur gadawyvetas
ca. The model implied Kosovo integration in European institutions, moiTxovs. 1244 rezoluciis erTsulovnad miRebiT,
Kosovo membership in all international organizations (except UN) uSiSroebis sabWom dagmo miloSeviCis qmedebebi,
and all three branches of authority. The proposal required for main- CamoarTva serbeTs mmarTvelobis ufleba da ko-
taining sovereignty and territorial integrity of Serbia as well as strict sovos teritoria gaeros drobiT administracias
guarantees for Serbian minorities in Kosovo province. dauqvmdebara. swored CamoTvlili faqtorebis
kombinacia sZens kosovos SemTxvevas unikalur xa-
On March 26, 2007 the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General siaTs~.
Martti Ahtisaari sent the report on Kosovo’s future status to the
members of contact group (Russia, UK, Germany, Italy, France).
kosovo da afxazeTi
“Upon careful consideration of Kosovo’s recent history, the reali- msgavseba Tu xelovnuri analogia
ties of Kosovo today and taking into account the negotiations with
the parties, I have come to the conclusion that the only viable `Tu vinme fiqrobs, rom kosovos sruli damoukide-
option for Kosovo is independence, to be supervised for an initial bloba unda mieniWos, ratom unda vuTxraT imave
period by the international community,” he said. Txovnaze uari afxazeTs? Cven saerTo gamoyenebis
universaluri principebi gvesaWiroeba~. – ruse-
Ahtisaari highlighted in his plan that it was impossible for Kosovo Tis prezidentis, vladimer putinis es cnobili
to be permanently under the UN governance. gancxadeba im safrTxis Semcvelia, romelic ara mx-
olod saqarTvelos, aramed bevri evropuli qveynis
“A return of Serbian rule over Kosovo would not be acceptable da TviT ruseTis interesebsac emuqreba.
to the overwhelming majority of the people of Kosovo. Belgrade
could not regain its authority without provoking violent opposi- sakiTxi saqarTvelosTvis gansakuTrebiT aqtua-

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luri mas Semdeg gaxda, rac 17 Tebervals kosovom tion. Autonomy of Kosovo within the borders of Serbia — however
damoukidebloba calmxrivad gamoacxada. kerZod, notional such autonomy may be — is simply not tenable,” said Ahti-
kosovos gamoyofam, SesaZloa afxazeTisa da samxreT saari and added, “Kosovo is a unique case that demands a unique
oseTis konfliqtebis mimarT rusuli politikis ga- solution. In unanimously adopting resolution 1244 (1999), the
dasinjva gamoiwvios. saqarTvelos mTavroba varau- Security Council responded to Milosevic’s actions in Kosovo by
dobs, rom defaqto respublikebis dauyovnebliv denying Serbia a role in its governance, placing Kosovo under tem-
aRiareba ruseTis interesebSi ar Sedis. amas mow- porary United Nations administration and envisaging a political
mobs dsT-s araformalur samitze saqarTvelosa process designed to determine Kosovo’s future. The combination
da ruseTis pirveli pirebis Sexvedris Sedegebic. of these factors makes Kosovo’s circumstances extraordinary”.
Tumca safrTxe arsebobs da ` saxelwifo aparati se-
riozulad muSaobs nebismier situaciaSi sakadrisi
reagirebisTvis~ (mixeil saakaSvilis 18 Tebervlis Kosovo and Abkhazia
gancxadeba). Similarity or simulation

miuxedavad imisa, rom dasavleli diplomatebi xazs “If people believe that Kosovo can be granted full independence,
usvamen `kosovos uprecendentobas~, oficialuri why then should we deny it to Abkhazia and South Ossetia? We
moskovi miniSnebebs `dominos efeqtze~ akTebs da need common principles to find a fair solution to these problems.”
kosovos magaliTiT saqarTvelos gayinuli kon- Paradoxically, this well-known statement of Russian president
fliqtebis axlebur (misTvis momgebian) interpre- Vladimir Putin poses a threats not only to Georgia but also to
tacias cdilobs. European countries and to Russia itself.

sazogadoebisTvis interesmoklebuli ar una iyos The Kosovo issue became even more important for Georgia on
gamovyoT is garemoebebi romelic am or konfliqts Feb. 17, when Kosovo declared independence. Kosovo’s new sta-
(kosovo da afxazTi) erTmaneTisagan ganasxvavebs: tus may cause changes in Russia’s attitude regarding Abkhazia and
South Ossetia conflicts. The Georgian government supposes that
pirvel rigSi unda iTqvas, rom kosovoSi serbebma,
romlebic mosaxleobis umciresobas warmoadgend-
nen eTnikur albanelebs genocidi mouwyves, maSin
roca gansxvavebuli demografiuli viTarebis mqone
afxazeTSi genocidi qarTul mosaxleobas mouwyves
da eTnikur qarTvelebs sacxovrebeli adgilebi
daatovebines.

amasTanave, kosovo Tavidanve moeqca saerTaSoriso

yuradgebis centrSi. eTnikuri wmendis SesaCere-
blad natos samxedro Zalebi Caeria, misi Zalisx-
meviT daiwyo daZabulobis ganeitraleba da al-
baneli ltolvilebis TavianT saxlebSi dabrune-
bis procesi. afxazeTis omis dros ki saqarTvelo,
rogorc `ar Semdgari~ saxelmwifo nakleb sain-
tereso gaxldaT saerTaSoriso TanamegobrobisT-
vis, xolo qarTvelebis genocidi araTu SeCerebuli,
aramed waxalisebuli iyo ruseTis mxridan.

garda amisa, kosovos adgilobrivi mosaxleobis

TiT­qmis 90% meti mxars uWers damoukideblobas.
amis sapirispirod, afxazeTSi (separatistuli da
rusuli agresiuli Zalebis mxridan ganxorciel-
buli qarTvelTa eTnikuri wmendis pirobebSic ki)
2007 wlis 4-18 marts Catarebuli saparlamento ar-
Cevnebis Sedegebis mixedviT, ara mxolod 200 000-ze
metma devnilma mosaxleobam, aramed dRevandel
afxazeTSi mxovrebma 65 000-ma eTnikurma qarTvelma
absoluturi boikoti gamoucxada am arCevnebs.

kidev erTi mizezi, ratom ar SeiZleba am ori SemTx-

vevis erTmaneTTan gaigiveba aris is, rom kosovos xelnakeTi karvebi bleis regionSi
teritoria TiTqmis mTeli 8 wlis ganmavlobaSi mi- makeshift camps in the region of Blace
ukerZoebeli Zalis - gaeros kontrolis qveS imyo-

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immediate recognition of the de facto republics would not be in feboda, maSin, roca afxazeTis teritorias dRemde
Russia’s interests. The same point was strengthened by Georgian dsT-s samSvidobo Zalebi akontroleben da viTare-
and Russian top officials at the meeting on CIS informal summit. ba dainteresebuli mxaris - ruseTis mier imarTeba.
However, as Georgian President Mikheil Saakashivili stated, there
are yet some possibilities that “the state apparatus is working to istoriuli movlenis mosalodneli Sedegebi far-
respond to any threat adequately To diskusiis Temad iqca. aRniSnul sakiTxebTan
dakavSirebiT vesaubreT ekonomikuri politikisa
Western diplomats emphasize that Kosovo should not create da samarTlebrivi sakiTxebis qarTul-evropuli
precedent for other unresolved conflicts. But Kremlin makes ref- sakonsultacio centris direqtors baton kaxa
erences to a “Domino Effect” in attempts to interpret Georgian gogolaSvils.
conflicts into more useful cases for Russia.
konfliqtis mogvarebis araerTi modeli arsebobs
It would be interesting to identify the main characteristics (fea- Tanamedrove msoflioSi. SeZleba gavixsenoT igive
tures) that distinguish the Kosovo case from Abkhazia. bosniis da aCexis (indoneziis provincia) magaliTebi.
magram kosovos precedentis ganzogadeba arcerT
Firstly, Kosovo genocide was conducted by Serbian minorities SemTxvevaSi ar unda moxdes. es ar Sedis saqarT-
against ethnic Albanians. Where as in Abkhazia, the majority of velos interesebSi. kosovo is unikaluri SemTxevaa,
population, Georgians, had been brutally and massively killed and romlic mxolod kosovoze SeiZleba gavrceldes.
displaced from their houses. arsebobs aresbiTi sxvaoba, kosovosa da afxazeTis
konfliqtebs Soris, rac saTanadod unda iqnes gan-
Secondly, there is one detail that totally divides contest of these martebuli da axsnili. albanuri mosaxleobis eTni-
two cases: Kosovo situation became the subject of interest among kuri wmenda, safrTxes uqmnis mTeli evropis simS-
international powers from the beginning of its conflict. The dra- videsa da keTildReobas. es safrTxe dRemde ar aris
matic deterioration of the situation prompted the intervention of ganeitralebuli. amitom, didi Zalisxmevaa saWiro
NATO. And only thanks to NATO‘s efforts, refugee returning pro- imisTvis, rom mdgomareoba ar gamwvavdes, rac ara
cess started. On the contrary, during the Abkhazia war, Georgia as erT faqtorze iqneba damokidebuli.
“failed state” did not become the issue for the West. Consequently,
ethnic Georgians’ genocide had not been suspended but encour- batono kaxa, xSirad saubroben afxazeTisTvis
aged by the Russian side. `farTo avtonomiis miniWebaze~, ras gulisxmobs

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avtonmiis es forma da riT gansxvavdeba is koso-
vos `kontrolirebadi avtonomiisgan~?

avtonomia centralur mTavrobasa da avtonomiur

olqs Soris kompetenciaTa gamijvnas da ufle-
bamosilebis delegirebas efuZneba. rac Seexeba im
sakiTxs Tu avtonomiis ra forma unda mieniWos afx-
azeTs, es molaparakebis sakiTxia. farTo avtonomiis
magaliTebad SeiZleba moviyvanoT baskeTi espaneT-
Si da flandria belgiaSi. kulturuli damoukide-
blobis garda, farTo avtonomiis pirobebSi Ses-
aZlebelia regionalur organizaciebSi wevroba
da regionalur proeqtebSi monawileobis miReba,
saerTaSoriso daxmarebis miReba, rigi ekonomikuri
programebis ganxorcieleba. Tumca aris sakiTxebi,
romelic centraluri mTavrobis kompetenciaSi
rCeba, magaliTad fulis emisia, Tavdacva da sagareo
politika. 90 –ian wlebSi afxazuri mxare Tanaxma
iyo konfederaciul modelze.

konfederacia, xom klasikuri gagebiT saxelmwi-

foTa kavSiria. gamodis, rom afxazeTs surda kon-
federaciul SeTanxmebaSi saxemwifos statusiT
monawileoba?
kaxa gogolaSvili
diax, swored amitom, saqrTvelos interesebSi ar kakha gogolashvili
Sedis konfederaciuli modeli. Tumca, saqarTvelo
mzad aris SesTavazos avtonomiis is formebi, rom-
lebic uzruvelyofs afxazebis kulturuli Tvid- In addition, 90 percent of Kosovo’s local population voted for
myofadobis SenarCubas da mniSvnelovan daTmobebs independence while 200,000 temporary displaced persons and
ekonomikuri da administraciuli kuTxiT. 65,000 ethnic Georgians (currently living on the territory of Abk-
hazia) boycotted de facto parliamentary elections in Abkhazia, in
ruseTi garkveulwilad dilemis winaSe dgas, afxa- March of 2007.
zeTisa da samxreT oseTis de faqto respublike-
bis aRiareba ar Sedis mis ineteresebSi, Tumca me- One more reason why these two cases (Kosovo and Abkhazia)
ore mxriv, dasavleTTan konfrontaciis fonze ar cant’ be compared is that the territory of Kosovo had been ruled
surs wagebul mdgomareobaSi aRmoCndes. rogor by impartial force (UNMIK) over 8 years. When in Abkhazia, the
fiqrobT, racionaluri politikis pirobebSi ra situation was under immediate control of Russian political and
iqneboda ruseTisTvis saukeTeso arCevani? military forces. And Russia is an interested part of this conflict.

cnobilia, rom ruseTi iracionalur politikas There is the intensive discourse about the possible results of the
awarmoebs. am faqtis axsna SesaZloa ruseTis is- Kosovo case. Kakha Gogolashvili, Director of Georgian-
toriul mexsierebaSi, mis ambiciebSi an im speci- European Policy and Legal Advice Center, discusses the topic.
fikur politikur amocanebSi veZeboT, romlis
winaSec qveyana saukuneebis ganmavlobaSi idga. There are several methods of conflict regulation in the modern
Tumca, erTi ram cxadia. ruseTs dRes ar awyobs world. In this respect we should mention Bosnia and Aceh (In-
afxazeTisa da oseTis damoukideblobis aRiareba, donesia province) cases. But generalizing Kosovo precedent is
rac niSnavs, rom am etapze konfliqturi regione- inadmissible. It doesn’t meet Georgian interests (and can be only
bis damoukideblobis xmamaRali deklaracia mis spent on Kosovo). There are essential differences between these
ineteresebSi ar Sedis. maSin, roca misi miznebi two conflicts that should be explained and cleared up properly.
konfliqtur zonebTan mimarTebaSi ar Secvlila. The discrimination against Kosovo Albanians on a massive scale
afxazebi dRes damoukideblobisTvis ibrZvian da became a threat to peace and security of Europe. The danger
ara ruseTTan asimilaciisTvis! swored amitom, hasn’t been neutralized yet completely. Great effort should be ex-
ruseTs ganzraxuli aqvs afxazebis politikuri pended to avoid deterioration of situation that is determined by
ganwyobis da miswrafebebis sruli transforma- numerous factors.
cia. am miznis miRweva droTa ganmavlobaSi SesaZ-
lebelia Tu afxazeTTan ekonomikuri integraciis We hear frequently that Abkhazia should gain a `broad autonomy~
process kidev ufro gaaRrmavebs da iseT xarisxs – what does this model imply and how would it differ from `super-
miaRwevs, roca afxazebs sxva arCevani aRarc dar- vised autonomy~?

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Autonomy is the delegation of competence between central govern- CebaT, garda imisa, rom TviTonve moiTxovon ru-
ment and autonomous region. Which type of autonomy Abkhazia seTTan SeerTeba.
should gain is the question of negotiation. The examples of broad
autonomy are the Pais Basco in Spain or Flandria in Belgium. anu SeiZleba iTqvas, rom ruseTs surs konfli-
Apart from cultural independence, in case of broad autonomy, the qturi regionebis `gayinuli~ formiT SenarCu-
autonomous entity can become the member of regional projects neba, magram imavdroulad surs `gaalRos~ isini
and organizations receive international aid and participate in eco- ekonomikuri da ideologiuri TvalsazrisiT..
nomic programs. Though some issues such as monetary, foreign
and defense policy is exclusively in competence of central author- diax, swore es vigulisxme. am SemTxvevaSi ruseTi be-
ity. Abkhazia was considering a confederal model in ‘90s. vrad ufro gaZlierdeba vidre dRes aris. Crdilo-
eT kavkasiuri respublikebi Sexedaven, rom ruseTi
Confederation is the unity of empowered states. So, does it mean ki ar iSleba, aramed piriqiT Zlierdeba da axal
that Abkhazian side wanted to enter into agreement under the state teritoriebs ierTebs, rac maT mouspobs SesaZle-
status? blobas damoukideblobisTvis brZola gaagrZelon.
amasTanave, ruseTi dasavleTTan konfrontaciis
Yes. That’s why Georgia refused this proposal. However, Georgia konteqstSic gaimyarebs poziciebs.
is ready to offer to Abkhazia those forms of autonomy that provide
guarantees for cultural inherent as well as high level of authority Tqven CamoayalibeT ruseTis strategia, daaxlo-
transfer with respect to economic and local governance. ebiT ra svlebs unda velodoT misgan?

The Kosovo case creates a dilemma for Russia as well. Russia diax, Tumca unda iTqvas, rom amgvari xedva ucxoa
doesn’t want immediate recognition of Abkhazia and South Osse- dasavleTisTvis. istoriuli, teritoriuli da re-
tia, but on the other hand, with respect to confrontation with the ligiuri siaxloevis gamo, CvenTvis ufro gasagebia
West, Kremlin won’t accept the role of a loser. What do you think ra surs ruseTs da ra gzebiT Seecdeba amis miRwe-
would a rational policy for Russia be? vas. magram kidev erTxel vimeoreb, es mxolod va-
raudia.... rogorc wesi, rusuli politika CarCoe-
As a rule, Russia conducts irrational politics. The explanation of bSi ar jdeba da ufro intuitiur xasiaTs atarebs.
this fact one can find in historical memory or in political ambitions amitomac aris gaugebari dasavleTisTvis rusuli
and tasks that faced country during the centuries. The recognition politikis niuansebi. demokratiuli qveynebis po-
of de facto republics is not in Russia’s interest but it doesn’t mean litikis ganmsazRvreli xalxia da maTi neba, xolo
that Russia changed its intention towards these regions. Abkhaz- rusuli poltikis _ lideri da ideologTa viwro
ians are fighting for independence but not for assimilation with wre, romelTa amosavali principi aris ara mosaxle-
Russia. Thus, Russia’s aim is to transform Abkhazian aspirations obis keTldReoba, aramed rusuTis momavali sta-
and dispositions in the way that would be more beneficial for it. tusi saerTaSoriso urTierTobebSi. batoni puti-
Russia can accomplish this goal by deepening economic integra- ni ambobs, rom Tu kosovos precendenti Seiqmna, es
tion with the de facto republic. By this means, Russia would push universalur normad unda iqces, magram ver xsnis,
Abkhazia to make a self-defeating decision to join the Russian ver ganmartavs, ris safuZvelze unda ganzogaddes,
Federation. kosovos SemTxveva. es is SemTxvevaa, roca politi-
kis formireba xdeba ara sxadasxva Zalebis intera-
Can we assume that Russia wants to conserve the conflict zones qtivis Sedegad, aramed politikuri lideris mier
but in fact, stimulates the processes in economic and ideological erTpirovnulad..
terms?
Tu davuSvebT, rom ruseTi Tqvens mier navaraude-
Exactly, and if so Russia will increase its influence and internal ca- vi strategiiT imoqmedebs, am logikiT rogori
pacities. It would be obvious for North Caucasian Republics that unda iyos saqarTvelos kontrstrategia?
Russia is maintaining its territorial integrity and even gaining new
territories. So the chances for them to continue their fighting for me mainc mgonia, rom afxazeTis konfliqtis mogva-
independence will decrease. As a result, Russia will reinforce its rebis yvelaze optimaluri gza ltolvilTa dab-
positions on the international level too. runebaze orientirebuli samoqmedo taqtikaa. am
TvasazrisiT saqarTvelos absoluturi upirateso-
You have drafted Russia’s possible strategy very clearly, so, what ba gaaCnia, rogorc samarTlebrivi ise politikuri
would be the expecting steps? da rac mTavari moraluri kuTxiT. arc ruseTs da
arc afxazur mxares amis winaaRmdeg argumentebi ar
The Western World perceives Russia differently. But for us, who aqvT da romc hqondeT, isini Zalian ususuri da dab-
are still tied with Russia by territorial, historical and religious as- ali Rirebulebis mqone iqneba, radgan adamianebis
pects, it’s easy to understand Moscow’s real goals. And we also masiuri gaJleta da saxlebidan gamoZeveba ZirSive
know that Russia will do everything to get its target. I keep saying ewinaaRmdegeba dasavlur faseulobebs. sayuradge-
that it is only assumptions. The Russian foreign policy doesn’t boa isic, rom dasavluri xedvisTvis umTavresia re-
have any frames and is more intuitive by its nature rather than gionSi mSvidobis SenarCuneba da mTavrobis xalxis

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nebaze damyarebuli pozicia. saqmec eg aris, rom well-articulated. That’s why the western states can’t follow illogi-
qarTvelebis dabrunebiT afxazuri mosaxleobis cal Russian politics. In democratic states policy is determined by
neba da ganwyoba bunebrivad Seicvleba. konfliqtis public awareness, whereas the source of Russian politics is ideol-
sxvagvarad mogvarebis SemTxvevaSi SeiraRebuli da- ogy based on the country’s role and position in the international
pirispirebis Tavidan acileba SeuZlebeli gaxdeba arena. Vladimir Putin announced that Kosovo case should lead to
da dasavleTis mxardaWeris mopovebac am SemTxveva- forming universal norms, but he does not have enough arguments
Si gaWirdeba. isini yovelTvis gvetyvian; ra ufro to prove his position.
mniSvnelovania? mSvidobis SenarCuneba regionSi,
SesaZlo omis mosalodneli msxverpli, konfliqtis If Russia acts pursuant to the strategy you have shaped, what would
Semdgomi eskalaciis safrTxe Tu sakiTxis droebiT be the best counter strategy for Georgia?
SeCereba. da es `droebiT SeCereba~ SeiZleba aras-
dros ar dasruldes. amdenad, saWiroa wina planze im I am confident the best way of resolving Abkhazia conflict is a
sakiTxebis wamoweva, romelic dasavlur interesebs strategy of refugee return. Putting forward the question of tem-
Tu ar emTxveva, ar ewinaaRmdegeba mainc. afxazebma porary displaced persons will give prominence to Georgia legally,
amgvari xedvis sapirwoned SeiZleba sabrZolo moq- politically and morally. Neither Russia nor Abkhazia has the argu-
medebebis ganuaxleblobis garantiebi moTxovon da ments against it. And even if they elaborate some arguments they
qarTuli mxarec unda dasTanxmdes amas, mxolod im would be worth nothing. As repression, displacement and tragic
pirobiT Tu SeTanxmebaSi iqve pirdapir, xazs vusvam loss of civilians contends the basics of international values and
pirdapir, iqneba miTiTebuli, rom dauyovnebliv universally recognized principles.
daiwyeba ltolvilTa dabrunebis procesi.
The main goal of Europe and the US is the maintaining peace and
`dasavluri proeqti~ security in the Caucasian region. From their point of view this
goal should be reached by transparent government policy based
serbeTis istoriulad ganuyofeli nawilis - koso- on public will and disposition. Returning ethnic Georgians to Ab-
vos – `saxelmwifod qceva~ dasavluri proeqtia, khazia will change population sentiments in favour of Georgian
romlis avtorebic regionSi stabilurobisa da government naturally. Settlement of conflict by other means won’t
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put in question. They would ask us to choose among maintaining iqoniebs Tu ara kosovos precendenti saqarTvelos
stability in the region or possible drastic results of possible war. konfliqtebze seriozul gavlenas amis Tqma rTu-
Putting off military actions in the region will never finish. So that lia, magram ramdenadac amis safrTxe realurad ar-
our goal is to underscore those issues that don’t create interest sebobs, mizanSewonili iqneba SevexoT kosovosTan
conflicts with Western countries. Abkhazian side may demand the dakavSirebul ramdenime sakiTxs.
firm guarantees of not restoring armed actions. But for Georgians,
emergence returning of ethnic Georgians in Abkhazia should be- pirvel rigSi unda iTqvas, rom axlad warmoqnili
come the top requirement of the agreement. saxelmwifos bedi mTlianad damokidebulia aSS-s
da evrokavSiris politikur nebasa da mzadyofnaze
`Western Project~ _ kosovo iqces ara saerTaSoriso samarTlis ug-
ulebelyofis, aramed konfliqtis mogvarebis war-
The transformation of Serbian historical part – Kosovo province matebul precendentad.
into the state, is the “Western Project”, whose authors seek re-
gional stability and prosperity. `istoria daamtkicebs, rom balkaneTSi mSvidobisa
da stabilurobis dasamyareblad Cven swori nabiji
It is difficult to say whether Kosovo case can influence Georgian gadavdgiT,~- ganacxada aSS-s prezidentma jorj
conflicts seriously. However, there is no doubt that threats exist. buSma.
For this reason we will discuss some problems regarding Kosovo.
StatebTan erTad pasuxismgeblobas evropis wamy-
Firstly, the fate of the newly independent state fully depends on vani saxelmwifoebic (didi britaneTi, safrangeTi,
political willingness and readiness of the US and EU to support germania) inawileben. `Zalian mniSvnelovania, vaRi-
the young democracy. Kosovo won’t be associated with the viola- aroT, rom dasavleT balkaneTis qveynebi evropuli
tion of international law but should become a successful example qveynebia. amdenad, evropam unda ikisros lideris
of conflict settlement. roli, raTa uzrunvelyos regionSi simSvide da
stabiluroba~ – ganmartavs britaneTis saxelm-
“The independence of Kosovo is an historic step for the Balkan wifo mdivani sagareo sakiTxebSi david milibandi.
region. It presents an opportunity to move beyond the conflicts of
the past and toward a future of freedom and stability and peace,” am etapze regionSi mSvidobis da wesrigis garanti,
said President Bush. natos egidiT myofi samxedro Zalebi da evrokav-
Siris sadamkvirveblo misiia. Tumca, Tu gaviTval-
Along with US, the leading European countries (UK, France, iswinebT kosovoSi arsebul mZime socialur fons,
Germany) should contribute to the democratic development of naTeli gaxdeba, rom mxolod dasavleTis soliduri
Kosovo. daxmarebis pirobebSi (ormxrivi vaWrobis stimuli-
reba, savizo reJimis gamartiveba) SeZlebs kosovo
“We should admit that the Balkan countries are European coun- saxelmwifod Camoyalibebas – siRaribis da umuSev-
tries, so Europe is obliged to promote peace and stability in this re- robis daZlevas, aseve, serbeTis mxridan mosalod-
gion,” announced David Miliband, Secretary of State for Foreign neli eqstremizmis Tavidan acilebas. evrokavSirma,
and Commonwealth Affairs. `Ria karis~ principi, ara mxolod kosovos, aramed
serbeTTan mimarTebaSic unda aamoqmedos, raTa
Today, NATO’s military forces are the main guarantee of order maTi organizaciaSi integraciiT, safuZveli Cae-
and stability in Kosovo. However, taking into consideration the yaros belgradisa da priStinas politikuri Ser-
heavy social conditions it is clear that without considerable sup- igebis process.
port from EU and the US (stimulation of trade, easing visa re-
gime), Kosovo will never form as a state. Kosovo needs to take up Tumca, es mxolod saukeTeso scenaria. martti ax-
the challenges such as poverty, unemployment or political extrem- tisaaris sityvebiT rom vTqvaT, `kosovo unika-
ism coming from Serbia. EU should put in action the “open door” luri SemTxvevaa, romelic unikalur gadawyvetas
principle not only concerning to Kosovo but also Serbia, since iTxovs.~ dRes saqarTvelos, iseve rogorc saer-
their integration into the EU will facilitate the normalization and TaSoriso Tanamegobrobis mTavari amocanaa, rom
reconciliation process. es `unikaluri SemTxveva~ rac SeiZleba nakleb mt-
kivneuli iyos maTTvis.
Nevertheless, it is the best scenario. As Martti Ahtisaari stated,
“Kosovo is a unique case that demands a unique solution.” Thus,
the main task of Georgia as well as international community is to
make this case less painful for them.

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kapitnebi
Captains
Salva londariZe
Shalva Londaridze

Tavdacvis erovnuli akademiis oficrebma ka- The officers of National Defence Academy
pitnis sakariero kursi daasrules. sazeimo completed the Captain Career Course. The
ceremonia Tavdacvis saministroSi gaimarTa,
solemn ceremony was held at the Ministry
romlis dasrulebis Semdeg kursdamTavrebu-
lebs kapitnis sakariero kursis dasrulebis of Defence of Georgia. After the ceremony
damadasturebeli diplomebi gadaecaT. ofi- the officers were granted Captains Career
crebs warmateba ministris moadgilem mamuka Diplomas. Deputy Minister of Defence Ma-
mujirma da gaerTianebuli Stabis ufrosma
muka Mujiri and the Chief of Joint Staff of
polkovnikma zaza gogavam miuloces. sazeimo
ceremonias daeswrnen gaerTianebuli Stabisa the Georgian Armed Forces Colonel Zaza
da Sinagan saqmeTa saministros xelmZRvane- Gogava congratulated the officers on their
li pirebi. saswavlo kursi 18 kvira gagrZelda. success. The leadership of Joint Staff of the
oTxi Tvis ganmavlobaSi Tavdacvisa da Sss-s
Georgian Armed Forces and Ministry of Inter-
oficrebma manevris, saartilerio, sainJinro
da lojistikis mimarTulebiT Teoriuli da nal Affairs of Georgia attended the solemn
praqtikuli mecadineobebi gaiares. ceremony.

kapitnebis sakariero kursis gamoSveba

Graduation ceremony of captains` career courses

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The curriculum course continued for 18 weeks. During four weeks zaza gogava, gaerTianebuli Stabis ufrosi,
the officers of Defence Ministry and Ministry of Internal Affairs polkovniki: `dRevandeli dRe SeiaraRebuli Za-
of Georgia were undergoing theoretical and practical trainings in lebisaTvis kidev erTi wingadadgmuli nabijia.
maneuvering, artillery, engineering and logistical fields. oficrebis momzadebis done maRalia da igi nato-s
moTxovnebs pasuxobs.
Colonel Zaza Gogava – Chief of Joint Staff:
kapitnis sakariero kursebis meSveobiT oficrebma
samxedro codna da gamocdileba gaiRrmaves, rac
“This day is one more step forward for the Armed Forces. The of- maT saSualebas aZlevs samxedro karieraSi kidev
ficers’ preparation level is high and is in compliance with NATO erTi nabijiT win waiwion da kapitnis rangSi aseu-
standards. lis meTaurebad ganagrZon samsaxuri.

The officers deepen military knowledge and experience through wels garkveulad siaxlis mowmenic gavxdiT. es aris
the Captain Career Courses. The course gives them an option to pirveli SemTxveva, rodesac Tavdacvis erovnul
take one more leap forward in military career and continue serv- akademiaSi, samxedroebTan erTad, momzadeba Sss-s
ing as company commanders in captain rank. gansakuTrebuli sammarTvelos oficrebmac gaia-
res. Zalovan uwyebebs Soris mWidro TanamSrom-
loba Zlieri saxelmwifosTvis saTanado garanti
We also get certain innovation. This is the first occasion when
iqneba, Tumca amas kidev erTi mizani hqonda. ar
the officers of special divisions of the Ministry of Internal Af-
aris gamoricxuli dadges imis aucilebloba, rom
fairs underwent preparation alongside military servicemen. The policiis qvedanayofebma monawileoba miiRon sam-
tight relationship between the law-enforcement authorities will Svidobo operaciebSi, rasac saTanado momzadeba
be an appropriate guarantee for a powerful country. Thus, the sWirdeba. saamiso baza ki dResdReobiT mxolod
joint preparation had one more certain aim. I can’t exclude the saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministros erovnul aka-
necessity that police subdivisions may participate in peacekeep- demias gaaCnia.~
ing operations, which needs appropriate preparation. Currently,
only the National Defence Academy of the Ministry of Defence sazeimo miRebaze, romelic ceremoniis dasru-
of Georgia possesses such a preparation base”. lebis Semdeg gaimarTa, kursdamTavrebulebi
Wiqa RviniT aRniSnavdnen sakariero kursebis
After the ceremony undergraduate students celebrated the suc- warmatebiT dasrulebas. maTTan erTad iyvnen
maTi gulSematkivrebi, ojaxis wevrebi - meuRle,
cessful completion of career courses with toasts at the solemn
deda, Svilebi. kapitnebi siamovnebiT da Zaldau-
reception. Relatives, close friends and family members also at-
taneblad saubrobdnen, siamayis gancdac hqon-
tended the graduation ceremony. The captains were conversing daT rom karieraSi win waiwies, saubrobdnen sa-
with pleasure and freely; they were very proud as they advanced momavlo gegmebze:
in career; they talked about their future plans:
manuCar SamaTava, me-4 qveiTi brigadis 42-e ba-
talionis kapitani: saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul
ZalebSi 9 welia vmsaxurob. am xnis ganmavlobaSi,
rogorc samxedrom didi gamocdileba miviRe. Tum-
ca kapitnis sakariero kursebi codnis gaRrmavebis
TvalsazrisiT gansakuTrebuli aRmoCnda. oTxi
Tvis ganmavlobaSi, Teoriuli da praqtikuli me-
cadineobebis saxiT, uamravi ram Seviswavle. maT
Soris: dokumentaciis sworad warmoeba, piradi Se-
madgenlobis transportireba, lojistikis mimar-
TulebiT jaris uzrunvelyofa, brZolis velze
qvedanayofebis uzrunvelyofa da mravali sxva...

saswavlo programidan gansakuTrebiT ra fa-

qtors gamoyofdi?

saswavlo programa zogadad Zalian saintereso

iyo. Tumca yvelaze didi STabeWdileba mainc pra-
qtikulma mecadineobebma moaxdines. codna, ro-
melsac praqtika ar axlavs, srulyofili ar aris.
erovnul akademiaSi ki safuZvliani codnis miReba
kapitani manuCar SamaTava ojaxTan
capt. Manuchar shamatava with his family garantirebulia.

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dRevandel sazeimo ceremonias oficialuri Manuchar Shamatava - captain of the 42nd battalion, 4th Infan-
pirebis garda samoqalaqo pirebic eswrebod- try Brigade:
nen. maT Soris Seni meuRle da qaliSvili, 4 Tvis
elisabedic iyo... I have been serving in the Georgian Armed Forces for nine years.
During this period I as a military serviceman have obtained huge
samxedrosTvis ojaxis wevrTan erTad yofna xan- experience. Hence, the Captain Career Course was special in or-
daxan fufunebac ki aris. colad moyvanamde, ro- der to deepen my knowledge. During four months theoretical and
desac Cem momaval meuRles Cemi profesiuli practical trainings taught me a lot, including: appropriate paper
arCevanis Sesaxeb vuTxari, misgan mxolod Tana- work, personal staff transportation, logistical provision of the
grZnoba da siyvaruli vigrZeni. mas Semdeg Cven army, subdivisions provision on the battle field and others…
erTad varT. ramdenime Tvis win Cems axalgazrda
ojaxs kidev erTi wevri Seemata. meuRlesTan er- Which factor can you especially mark from the curriculum?
Tad gulSematkivrobas axla Cemi Svilic miwevs.
Generally, the curriculum was very interesting. Thus, I found
darwmunebuli var gulSematkivarebi arc mo- practical trainings the most impressive. Knowledge without prac-
mavalSi mogakldeba. miTumetes axla, rodesac tice is not perfect. Getting fundamental knowledge at the Nation-
wina wlebisgan gansxvavebiT sazogadoeba qarT- al Defence Academy is guaranteed.
vel oficers imedis TvaliT uyurebs...
Besides officials, civilians also attended the solemn ceremony.
amis imedi namdvilad maqvs da kidev imis, rom sa- Among them were your spouse and 4 months old daughter – Eliza-
kuTar fesvebs male davubrundebi. 11 wlis viyavi,
beth…
rodesac afxazeTidan iZulebiT wamovedi. axlac
maxsovs gamovlili gza da ojaxis wevrebis dab-
Sometimes being with your family is a luxury for a military per-
neuli, gaognebuli saxeebi.
son. Before getting married when I told my future spouse about
my professional choice, I only felt sympathy and love towards my
SesaZloa ise moxdes, rom Cvens am dialogs en-
profession from her. Since then we are together. Several months
gurs iqeTac gaecnon. axla Tu ara Semdeg, rode-
before my young family added one more member. Now my child
sac afxazi da qarTveli Serigdeba. saqarTvelos
also supports me along with my spouse.
politikuri nebac xom aseTia... rogor fiqrob,
SesaZlebelia Cveni Serigeba?
I am sure you won’t suffer from lack of supporters in the future.
Especially now, when society looks at Georgian officers with hope
erT istorias gavixseneb. afxazeTis datoveba ver
in comparison to previous years…
movaswariT. ise moxda, rom afxazebma Cveni oja-
xi tyved aiyvanes da mamas daxvretiT daemuqrnen.
I definitely hope for this and also trust to return to my own roots
ganaCeni TiTqmis sisruleSi iyo moyvanili, rode-
sac moZaladeebs moulodnelad erT-erTi maTga- very soon. I was 11 years old when I was made to leave Abkha-
ni gamoeyo da momiaxlovda. man Tavdapirvelad zia. I remember the exodus and confused, astonished faces of my
damamSvida, mere moSorebiT, tyveebisken miixeda, family members to this day.
iqneboda albaT oc kacamde da Sewuxebis mizezi
mkiTxa. CemTvis dRemde ucxo kacs vuTxari, rom Maybe our conversation will be read even beyond Enguri. If not
mas da mis Tanamzraxvelebs dasaxvretad gamzade- now, maybe after the reconciliation of Abkhazia and Georgia.
bul adamianebs Soris mamaCemic gahyavdaT. Georgian political wish is this… What is your opinion regarding
our reconciliation?
axlac ver amixsnia bolomde ra moxda. avtoma-
tianma kacma jer mamis garegnoba gamomkiTxa, Sem- I want to keep history in mind. We couldn’t manage to leave Ab-
deg gamiRima da miTxra: `pirobas gaZlev mamas ima- khazia. Abkhazians seized my family hostage and threatened my
ze adre naxav vidre Sen fiqrobo~. oriode wuTSi father by shooting. The sentence was almost executed when one
Cems win gakvirvebuli da dabneuli mamaCemi idga. of the violators approached me. At first, he calmed me down,
looked to the hostages, who were approximately twenty people
Tavdapirvelad misi gaTavisufleba boroti xu- and asked the reason of my hindrance. I said to unfamiliar person
mroba gvegona, magram Semdeg me da Cemi ojaxis for me that he and his accomplices were going to shoot my father
wevrebi afxazis asrulebul pirobaSi davrwmun- among the people they were going to execute.
diT - ai pasuxi Tqvens kiTxvaze. Cven, qarTvel da
afxaz xalxs, erTmaneTTan misasvleli gzebi kidev Till nowadays I can’t explain what had happened. First the armed
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said: “I promise you will see your father earlier than you think.” axla ras apireb?
Two minutes later my astonished and confused father was stand-
ing in front of me. dislokaciis adgils unda davubrunde da saqarT-
velos pirnaTlad vemsaxuro – aseTia Cemi samoq-
At first I thought his release was an evil joke, but then my family medo gegma.
members and I believed that Abkhazians kept the promise – this
gamodis, rom garkveuli drois ganmavlobaSi
is my answer to your question. We – Georgian and Abkhazian
ojaxis wevrebs isev ver naxav. rogorc ukve mi-
people – have the way for reconciliation. Txari amas meuRle Seguebulia. Tumca mirCevnia
magdalinasgan es Tavad movismino...
What are your current plans?
am ramdenime wlis ganmavlobaSi qarTul jarSi be-
I have to return to my location place and serve Georgia perfectly vri ram sasikeTod Seicvala. wina wlebisgan gansxva-
– this is my action plan. vebiT, samxedro formis tareba ara Tu samarcxvino,
aramed saamayoa. imasac getyviT, rom gansakuTre-
So you aren’t able to see your family members for a while. You buli siamayis grZnoba mec gamaCnia, radgan qarT-
have already mentioned your spouse is accustomed to this. But veli oficris meuRle var. Cemi Zmac saqarTvelos
I’d rather hear personally from Magdalena… SeiaraRebul ZalebSi msaxurobs. rac Seexeba Tqvens
kiTxvas, samsaxuridan gamomdinare meuRles xSirad
marTlac ver vxedav, Tumca arsebuli realobis sav-
A lot of successful changes have been carried out in the Geor-
sebiT mesmis. samxedros ojaxisTvis cxovrebis ase-
gian Army over the last few years. In contrast with the past, Ti reJimi Cveulebrivi movlenaa.
wearing a military uniform becomes a source of pride, not
shame. I want to say that I have a special sense of pride as I dRes Sens meuRles kapitnis wodeba mieniWa...
am a spouse of Georgian officer. My brother also serves in the
Georgian Armed Forces. As for your question, I don’t see my ar davmalav Cems emocias da getyviT, rom meuRlis
spouse frequently because of his work. Thus, I fully understand warmateba namdvilad gamixarda. Tumca mTavari,

zurab zerekiZe da Tornike asaTiani

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axla codnis gaRrmavebaa. manuCars amisTvis yvela the reality. Such way of life is usual for a military serviceman’s
piroba gaaCnia. family.

minda visargeblo SemTxveviT da mis kolegebsac Today your spouse was granted the rank of captain…
mivuloco dRevandeli dRe.
I can’t hide my emotion: I am extremely glad about my husband’s
zurab zerekiZe, Tavdacvis erovnuli akademi-
is kapitani: instruqtorebis daxmarebiT, am oTxi
success. But the most important thing is that he deepened his
Tvis ganmavlobaSi udidesi gamocdileba SeviZi- knowledge. Manuchar has all possibilities for this. I also want to
ne. swored maTi damsaxurebaa, rom dRes kapitnis congratulate his colleagues today.
wodeba momeniWa da Cems samsaxurs gaRrmavebuli
codniT davubrundebi. Zurab Zerekidze – captain of National Defence Academy:

yovelTvis mindoda profesionali samxedro vyo- I received huge experience in assistance with instructors during
filiyavi. profesionalizmi ki Sesabamisi codni- these four months. Through their help, I was granted the rank of
sa da gamocdilebis gareSe warmoudgenelia. Cems captain and am returning to my work with deepened knowledge.
xelmZRvanelobasac Tavis droze am argumentiT I always wanted to become a professional military man. Profes-
mivmarTe. Semdegi etapi ukve testireba iyo. war-
sionalism can’t be had without appropriate knowledge and expe-
matebuli mcdelobis Semdeg kapitnis sakariero
rience. I addressed my leadership with this argument. The next
kursebze Caviricxe. axla ukve kapitani var da mi-
Rebuli codna Zalian maxarebs. stage was testing. After the successful experiment I was enrolled
in Captain Career Courses. Now I am a captain and I am very
Tornike asaTiani, Tavdacvis erovnuli akade- glad to have this knowledge.
miis kapitani: saswavlo kursi Zalian saintereso
iyo. instruqtaJs is oficrebi gvitarebdnen, rom- Tornike Asatiani – Captain of National Defence Academy
lebmac Tavis droze kvalifikacia sazRvargareT
aimaRles. aqedan gamomdinare, Cveni codna ucxo- The curriculum was very interesting. The officers who gave us
eTSi miRebuli codnis identuria. instructions had raised their qualification abroad. That is why
education we have received here is identical to the education
saqarTvelos politikuri neba dakarguli teri- abroad.
toriebis mSvidobiani gziT dabrunebaa, Tumca es
ar niSnavs imas, rom jaris Semdgomi ganviTareba ar
Georgia’s political will is to return its lost territories in a peaceful
moxdes.
way. But this doesn’t mean the army won’t be developed.
dReisaTvis jaris mxardaWera ara mxolod saxel-
mwifosgan, aramed sazogadoebis mxridanac igrZ- Nowadays we feel support not only from the state, but also from
noba, rac uTuod sasixarulo da dasafasebelia. society. This is a very pleasant and cherished fact.

sazogadoebis am sasiamovno aqtiurobas riT ax- How can you explain this pleasant activeness of society?
sni?
There are several reasons for the activeness. I want to give a very
amis araerTi mizezi arsebobs, Tundac elementa- simple example that would have been incredible a few years ago.
rul magaliTs moviyvan, rac wlebis ganmavlobaSi The visual and intellectual side of a soldier is radically different
warmoudgeneli iyo. jariskacis vizualuri da in-
from that period when the soldiers didn’t have even appropriate
teleqtualuri mxare dRes radikalurad gansxva-
uniforms in some cases. Today, we have an army that participates
vdeba im periodisagan, rodesac jariskacs, rig
SemTxvevebSi Sesabamisi formac ki ar gaaCnda. in peacekeeping missions abroad and prepares for NATO inte-
gration. I hope soon the time will come when Georgia becomes a
dRevandeli gadasaxedidan es ukve im jaris warsu- potential member of the North-Atlantic Alliance!
lia, romelic sazRvargareT, samSvidobo misiebSi
monawileobs da nato-s aliansSi gasawevrianeblad
aqtiurad emzadeba. imedi maqvs, mova dro da saqar-
Tvelo Crdilo atlantikuri aliansis srulufle-
biani wevri gaxdeba!

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wamo, reze
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spec-proeqti/SPEC-project

instruqtorTa gadamzadeba
instructors’ retraining

nino rusaZe
nino rusadze

5-month training course of the instructors saqarTveloSi pirvelad Catarda erovnu-

of National Guards has been conducted for li gvardiis instruqtorTa gadamzadebis
the first time in Georgia. The 25-men group of 5 kviriani kursi. 113 samxedro mosamsaxure
Krtsanisi National Training Center provided krwanisis erovnuli saswavlo centris 25
training to 113 military servants on Mukhro- kacianma jgufma muxrovanis me-40 kadrire-
vani 40th cadre brigade base. The course aimed buli brigadis bazaze moamzada. kursi miz-
at improvement of instructors’ skills. nad isaxavda instruqtorebis unar-Cvevebis
gaumjobesebas.
In order to understand the feeling of the in-
structors, whether they were comfortable imisaTvis, rom gagvego, Tu rogor igrZnes
in the role of reservists or not, we decided Tavi instuqtorebma rezervistis ampluaSi,
to interview them. Cven gadavwyviteT maTTan gasaubreba.

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levan xuciSvili
levan Khutsishvili
ufrosi serJanti,
erovnuli gvardiis instruqtori

First Sergeant, Instructor of the National Guards

programa Zalian saintereso iyo. bevri gavixseneT,

cota ram axalic SeviZineT. swavlebaSi ZiriTadi
yuradReba mecadineobis Catarebis meTodikas eT-
moboda. ukiduresad rTul garemoebebSi gvixde-
boda praqtikuli amocanebis Sesruleba, Tumca
programa imdenad saintereso iyo, rom erTgvar
azartsac ki iwvevda da miznis miRwevisas, aTmag
kmayofilebas vgrZnobdiT.

minda gavixseno kursis erT-erTi sintereso nawi-

li - navigacia, rodesac mocemuli koordinatebiT
wertilebis povna dagvevala. welamde TovlSi oc-
daaTi kilometris gavla mogvixda, magram yvela
wertilis aRmoCenisas da axali koordinatebis mi-
Rebisas siamayis iseTi grZnoba gveufleboda, rom
saerTod arc gvigrZvnia sicive.

am kursze Cven rezervistis ampluaSi aRmovCndiT The program was rather interesting. We recalled a lot, but ac-
da gaviareT yvela is safexuri, rasac TiToeuli quired new knowledge as well. Main emphasis was made on the
rezervisti gadis. es ki SesaZleblobas mogvcems principles of delivering the lectures. We had to fulfill practical
ufro kargad CavwvdeT maT moTxovnebsa da pro- tasks in extremely tough situations. Though, the program was so
blemebs. interesting that it grew us all heated and we felt huge satisfaction
when achieving the goal.

CemTvis, rogorc instruqtorisTvis, es kursi sa- I would like to tell you about one of the interesting parts of the
kmaod nayofieri iyo. kargad aviTvise Tematika da course – navigation, when we had to find points based on the
mecadineobebis Catarebis meTodika, sakuTari Ta- given data. Despite the fact that we had to walk 30 kilometers
vis mimarT ki rwmena gavimyare. axla ki mzad var sa- in deep snow that covered our waists, we were very proud while
qarTvelos rezervi movamzado. discovering each point and receiving new data and we did not
feel the cold at all.

At this course, we passed through all those steps that each of

reservist faces. This will give us opportunity to have a deep un-
derstanding of their demands and problems.

For me, as for an instructor, this course was very fruitful. I am

a proficient in this subject and the principles of the training al-
ready, gained confidence in myself and am now ready to train the
reserve of Georgia.

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 kaxaber sebiskveraZe
Kakhaber Sebiskveradze
ufrosi leitenanti,
erovnuli gvardiis instruqtori

First Lieutenant, Instructor of the National Guards

ar arsebobs iseTi swavleba, sadac codnas ver Sei-

Zen. ra Tqma unda, arc am swavlebas Cauvlia uSe-
degod. magaliTad aviRoT samSvidobo kursi, ro-
melTanac Cven, gvardiis instruqtorebs, aranairi
Sexeba ar gvqonia. krwanisis saswavlo centris in-
struqtorebi mTeli 5 kviris ganmavlobaSi gvix-
snidnen da gviziarebdnen TavianT gamocdilebas.
Cveni gadamzadebis kursi mxolod erTi ramiT gan-
sxvavdeboda rezervistTa momzadebis programi-
sgan. CvenTan amoRebuli iyo mxolod da mxolod
dilis fizmomzadeba, danarCeni ki – sacecxle,
sainJinro da taqtikuri momzadeba, topografia,
yvelaferi identuri iyo. Sesabamisad, gavaanali-
zeT kursis is sirTuleebi, rac SeiZleba rezervi-
stebma ver gadalaxon, magram momavlisTvis auci-
leblad gaviTvaliswinebT.

One can learn something from any training. Neither this train-
ing was the exception. Let’s take the peacekeeping course as an
example, because we, instructors of the National Guards have
never dealt with it. During the whole 5 weeks, Krtsanisi Training
Center instructors had been explaining and sharing their experi-
ence to us.

The only difference between our training course and the reserv-
ists’ training program was absence of morning physical exercises
in our program, while the rest (fire, engineering and tactical
training, topography) was identical. We analyzed all those dif-
ficulties of the course that the reservists might fail to overcome,
but we will consider them in future by all means.

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xuTkviriani gadamzadeba erovnuli gvardiis re-
zervistTa momzadebis bazebis instruqtorebma
muxrovanis samxedro bazaze gaviareT. Cven bevri
axali, saintereso da nato-s standartebTan Sesaba-
misi samxedro disciplina SeviswavleT. swavlebas,
ufrosi leitenant vladimer naTenaZis xelmZR-
vanelobiT, krwanisis saswavlo centris instru-
qtorebi gvitarebdnen. miuxedavad imisa, rom Cven
rezervistebTan muSaobis gamocdileba gvqonda,
kursma didi Sedegi gamoiRo. pirvel rigSi, davxve-
weT is, rac vicodiT. bevri axali ram SeviswavleT,
rac momavalSi swavlebis formisa da xarisxis gau-
mjobesebasa da maRal profesiul doneze mis Cata-
rebas Seuwyobs xels.

yvelaze saintereso taqtikuri momzadeba iyo,

kerZod - zurgisa da mxardamWeri operaciebidan
amoRebuli sabrZolo elementebi. maxsendeba kidev
erTi dRe - 30 kilometriani marSi, romelic marto
muxrovanis samxedro mosamsaxureebma gaviareT,
radgan instruqtorebma CaTvales, rom terito-
rias kargad vicnobdiT da koordinatebiT gadaad-
gileba ar gagviWirdeboda. mTavari is ki ar aris,
ramden kilometrs gaivli, mTavaria rogor Seasru-
leb dasaxul amocanas. Cven ki, erovnuli gvardiis
instruqtorebi, iseve rogorc TiTeuli jariska-
ci, yvela davalebas warmatebiT vasrulebT, rad-
gan vemsaxurebiT Cvens qveyanas - saqarTvelos.

paata CofikaSvili
Paata Chopikashvili
kapitani, instruqtorTa jgufis ufrosi
Captain, Instructors’ Group Commander:

Instructors of the Reservists’ Training Bases of the National

Guards received the 5-week training on Mukhrovani military base.
We learned a lot of new, interesting military disciplines compli-
ant to NATO standards. The training was provided by Krtsanisi
Training Center instructors under the guidance of First Sergeant
Vladimir Natenadze. Despite our past working experience with the
reservists, the course still had enormous positive effect. First of all,
we improved our knowledge and also learned a lot more, which
will help us to improve the form and quality of trainings in future
and its implementation at a high professional level.

The most challenging was the tactical training, particularly –

combat elements taken from back and supporting operations. I
remember one day – 30-kilometer long march of only Mukhro-
vani military servants, because the instructors decided that we
knew the territory very well and would have no problems in
navigation. But, the most important is how to attain the assigned
task not the mileage. Like each soldier, we (instructors of the
National Guards) complete all the tasks successfully as we serve
our country - Georgia.
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 korneli sajaia
Korneli Sajaia
givi kaxelaSvili
Givi Kakhelashvili
kapitani, instruqtori
Captain, Instructor

ufrosi leitenenti, rezervistebTan muSaobis bevri axali meTodi ga-

erovnuli gvardiis instruqtori movimuSave. instruqtorebma agvixsnes, Tu rogor
First Lieutenant, Instructor of the National Guards unda SevideT pirad SemadgenlobasTan kontaqtSi
advilad da rogor unda gavxadoT rezervistebis-
Tvis momzadebis procesi saintereso. swavlebisas
CemTvis es pirveli kursi iyo. praqtikul mecadine- aseve avimaRleT codna samSvidobo operaciebis Ca-
obas rTuli meteorologiuri pirobebi daemTxva. tarebis meTodikaSi (patrulireba, Cek-pointebis
sakvalifikacio srolebis dros iseTi qari da yin- mowyoba da sxva operaciebis Sesruleba). yvelaze
va iyo, rom xeli avtomatze gveyineboda. miuxeda- metad momewona instruqtorTa damokidebuleba
vad amisa, srolebi maRal doneze Catarda da kargi samuSaos mimarT.
qulebic miviReT.
xuTkviriani momzadebis ganmavlobaSi, Cven ara mar-
am kursSi yvelaze mniSvnelovani is iyo, rom Cven to vuziarebdiT erTmaneTs gamocdilebas, aramed
rezervistebis rangSi viyaviT, ramac saSualeba mo- megobruli urTierTobebic ganvaviTareT, ramac
gvca sakuTar Tavze gadagvetana is, rasac rezer- ormagad Sedegiani da saintereso gaxada kursi.
visti momzadebis periodSi grZnobs.

I learned a lot of new methods of working with the reservists.

This was a first course for me. Practical training was under way Instructors explained to us how to easily get into contact with the
in quite hard meteorological conditions. There was such a heavy private composition and make the training process interesting
wind and frost during the qualification shoots that our hands for the reservists. We also raised the level of our knowledge in
were freezing to the rifles. Despite this, the shoots were con- principles of carrying out the peace operations (patrolling, set-
ducted at a high level and we received good scores. The most ting up check-points, etc.). Most of all, I liked the instructors’
important was the fact that we played the role of the reservists attitude towards the work.
at this course. This gave us opportunity to feel ourselves just like
they feel during the training period. During the 5-week training, we not only shared our experience
to each other, but also developed the friendship relationship that
made the course very interesting and fruitful.

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giorgi cucqiriZe
giorgi Tsutskiridze
ufrosi leitenanti,
muxrovanis bazis instruqtori
First Sergeant, Instructors of Mukhrovani Base

gadamzadebis kursi muxrovanis bazaze 20 dekembers

dagvewyo. Cven gaviareT rogorc Teoriuli, aseve
praqtikuli momzadeba - taqtikis, sacecxle, same-
dicio sainJinro kavSirgabmulobisa da samxedro
topografiis disciplinebSi. kursis ganmavloba-
Si, krwanisis erovnuli saswavlo centris instru-
qtorebi TavianT gamocdilebas gviziarebdnen.
vladimer naTenaZe
swavlebam Secvala Cveni midgoma rezervistebis mi- krwanisis erovnuli saswavlo centris ga-
marT. bevri sasargeblo ram Seviswavle, rasac maTi dasrolis wina operaciebis kursis xelmZRva-
momzadeba-gadamzadebisas aucileblad gamoviye- neli, ufrosi leitenanti
neb. rezervistebs movamzadebT ara marto rogorc
batalions, aramed rogorc zurgisa da samSvidobo Vladimir Natenadze
operaciebSi monawile sabrZolo qvedanayofebs, First Lieutenant, Head of Pre-deployment Operation Course –
raTa saWiro dros SeiaraRebuli Zalebis aqtiuri Krtsanisi National Training Center
komponentis Secvla SeZlon.

swavleba dilis cxra saaTze iwyeboda da saRamos

The training course on Mukhrovani base began on December 20. eqvs saaTamde grZeldeboda. pirvel dReebSi erov-
We went through trainings (theoretical and practical) – tactic, nuli gvardiis instruqtorebs leqciebis warmarT-
fire, medical, engineering communication and military topogra- vis Sesaxeb ramdenime Teoriuli mecadineoba Cavuta-
phy disciplines., instructors of Krtsanisi National Training Cen- reT. Semdeg, Teoriuli masalis ukeTesad aTvisebis
ter were sharing to us their experience throughout the course. mizniT, Cven maT gegma-konspeqtis momzadebisaTvis
saWiro yvela masala davurigeT da movTxoveT Tvi-
The training changed our approach to the reservists. I learned Tonve CaetarebinaT leqcia im konkretul Temaze,
many profitable things and will apply them later during the prepa- rac maTTvis kargad iyo cnobili. es Temebi, ra Tqma
ration-training of the reservists. In order to make them capable to unda, taqtikur sacecxle momzadebas, tofogra-
change the active component of the armed forces as required, we fias, sainJinro momzadebasa da navigacias exeboda.
will prepare the reservists not only as a battalion, but also as battle erovnuli gvardiis instruqtorebma yvela sirTu-
subunits participating in rare and peacekeeping operations. les gaarTves Tavi da aiTvises swavlebis meTodika,
rac yoveldRiuri da yovelkvireuli testirebis
Sefasebis monacemebSi gamovlinda. maT maRali Sede-
gebi aCvenes. es ki imas niSnavs, rom maTTvis dakisre-
bul amocanebs isini kargad gaarTmeven Tavs.

The training began at 9 A.M. and lasted till 6 P.M. In the first days,
several theoretical lessons were given to the instructors of the Na-
tional Guards on how to deliver the lectures. Later, with the aim to
have better understanding of theoretical materials, we delivered all
the materials to them necessary for development of plan-summary
and required to deliver the lecture on the specific subject, which
was well-known for them. These subjects, of course, were about tac-
tical fire training, topography, engineering training and navigation.
Instructors of the National Guards overcame all the obstacles and
mastered the principles of the training, which resulted in daily and
weekly test assessment data. They received high scores, meaning
that they will be able to fulfill the undertaken tasks quite well.

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 daviT afciauri:
wardgena/presentation

samxedro mosamsaxure
brZolisTvis mzad unda iyos!
erovnuli gvardiis departaments axali xelmZRvaneli yavs

xatia yuraSvili
khatia kurashvili

Colonel David Aptsiauri is at the head of the saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis gaerTianeb-
National Guard Department of the Joint Staff uli Stabis erovnuli gvardiis departaments
of the Georgian Armed Forces. He was appoint- polkovniki daviT afciauri xelmZRvanelobs.
ed to this position several months ago. is am Tanamdebobaze ramdenime Tvea rac dainiS-
na. axalgazrda oficeri 1969 wlis 19 dekembers,
qalaq rusTavSi daibada. iqve daamTavra saSu-
The uoung officer was born on December 19,
alo skola da 1986 wels rostovis olqSi, qalaq
1969 in the city of Rustavi. In the same city he
novoCerganskis samxedro saswavlebelSi Cair-
finished high school and entered the Higher icxa.
School of Military Communication Command
(Novocherkassk, USSR) in 1986. daviT afciaurma Tavdapirvelad samxedro
samsaxuri sabWoTa armiaSi daiwyo. 1990 wels
Col. Davit Aptsiauri served in the Former USSR pirveli samxedro wodeba miiRo. saqarTvelos
Army. He was conferred first rank in 1990. And damoukideblobis aRdgenis Semdeg ki samxedro
after Georgia’s independence Col. Aptsiauri samsaxuri saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul ZalebSi
has continued military service in the ranks gaagrZela.
of Georgian Armed Forces.
daviT afciauri ixsenebs, rom samxedro qalaqTan
The Colonel remembers that he was growing axlos gaizarda da megobrebTan TamaSis dros
up next to a military base and together with samxedroebis cxovrebas akvirdeboda. moswonda
samxedro disciplina, forma, maTi datvirTuli
friends always watched with interest the
dRis reJimi. xSirad maTTan erTad varjiSobda
life of militaries. He always liked military
kidec.
discipline, the uniform, the sated mode of day
of the servicemen. He often trained together dRes polkovniki daviT afciauri erovnuli
with the military men. gvardiis departamentis ufrosia da departa-
mentSi mimdinare movlenebze Cvens SekiTxvebs
Nowadays Col. Aptsiauri is the Head of Nation- pasuxobs:
al Guard and willingly talks to us about his
department: sul ramdenime Tvea rac Tqven saqarTvelos Seiara-
Rebuli Zalebis gaerTienebuli Stabis erovnuli
You were appointed as the Head of National Guard Department gvardiis departamentis ufrosad dainiSneT, ra cv-
only a few months ago. What changes have you carried out at the lilebebi ganaxorcieleT departamentSi da axali
department and have there been any personnel changes? xelmZRvanelis mosvlas Tu mohyva sakadro cvlile-
bebi?
Actually I was appointed as the Head of Department not long
marTalia erovnuli gvadriis departamenis ufrosad
ago, but 15 years ago I served in this building a floor below, in
axlaxans daviniSne, magram 15 wlis win, erTi sarTuliT
the position of Deputy Chief of Staff of the National Guard of dabla, erovnuli gvadriis Stabis ufrosis moadgilis
Georgia. After fifteen years I have returned as the Head of De- Tanamdebobaze vmsaxurobdi. 15 wlis Semdeg xelmZR-
partment. In the case of changes, Structure of National Guard vanelis rangSi isev davbrundi. rac Seexeba cvlilebebs,
Department and its sub units has been completely changed. The mTlianad Seicvala erovnuli gavrdiis departamentis
system of base-brigades was performed under the system of bri- struqtura da misi qvedanayofebi. baza-brigadebis
gades. Identical divisions of the joint Staff of the Armed Forces sistema brigadebis sistemam Caanacvla. Seiqmna saqarT-

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Davit Aptsiauri:
The Military Servant should be
ready to Fight at Any Time!
New Head of National Guard Department

velos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis gaerTianebuli Stabis were created. All divisions under the National Guard Structure
departamentebis identuri sammarTveloebi. es niSnavs, have corresponding departments to the Joint Staff. The above
rom yvela sammarTvelos, romelic erovnuli gavrdiis mentioned factor simplifies the relationship between leadership
departamentis struqturaSi Sedis aqvs Sesabamisi de- and servants.
partameni gaerTianebul StabSi. es faqtori qvemdgomsa
da zemdgoms Soris urTierTobas amartivebs. xelmZR- In coordination with the leadership, the J-5 division was formed,
vanelobasTan SeTanxmebiT Camoyalibda J-5-is sammarT- which will regulate military and public relations, work on the
velo, romelic samxedro-samoqalaqo urTierTobebs
NATO integration issues and cooperate strongly with corre-
daaregulirebs, saqarTvelos nato-Si integraciis
sponding departments of the Joint Staff.
sakiTxebze imuSavebs da mWidrod iTanamSromlebs gaer-
Tianebuli Stabis Sesabamis departamentTan.
You are an experienced guardsman. Could you draw a distinction
Zveli gvardieli brZandebiT. ra gansxvavebas xedavT between previous and present National Guard Department?
erovnuli gvardiis winandel da dRevandel depar-
tamentebs Soris? Unfortunately there are not old guardsmen and guard spirit met
me here. All photos of those fallen in the Abkhazia and Ossetia
samwuxarod arc Zveli gvardielebi damxvdnen aq da arc wars were taken down. There was some opinion concerning not
is gvardiuli suli damxvda, romelic arsebobda. afx- revering of blessed memory of deceased in war for unity of Geor-
azeTisa da oseTis omebSi daRupuli biWebis fotoebic gia in XXI century, but we are still face to face with the problem of
ki Camoxsnili iyo. arsebobda mosazreba, rom XXI sau- country consolidation. I do not blame anybody, but I suppose that

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someone was going to kill a guard spirit. We are standing on the kuneSi saqarTvelos erTianobisTvis omSi daRupuli
frontier of fulfillment of territorial integration mission at this time. biWebis saxelebi ar unda gvaxsovdes da es maSin, roca
A military servant should be ready to fight to protect the unity of qveyana teritoriuli mTlianobis aRdgenis problemis
the state at any time in any country. I have served in Georgian winaSe dgas. me aravis arafers ar vabraleb, magram al-
Armed Force since its creation. The National Guard was a unique baT erovnuli gvardiis sulis Cakvlas apirebda viRaca.
dRes Cven dakarguli teritoriebis aRdgenis amocanis
combat unit, which could more or less fight with the enemy.
winaSe vdgavarT. samxedro mosamsaxure nebismier dros,
nebismier qveyanaSi mzad unda iyos brZolisaTvis.
Today we have no combat sub-units; nowadays we train citizens saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul ZalebSi Seqmnis dRidan vm-
under the obligatory reservist service. The reserve is useful for saxurob. im dros, roca SeiaraRebuli Zalebi yalibde-
securing our rear. Eighteen-day reservists’ training is not enough boda, erovnuli gvardia erTaderTi sabrZolo qvedan-
for supporting combat operations on the front line. In the case ayofi iyo, romelsac mtrisTvis winaaRmdegobis gaweva
of Georgia’s military operations, reservists will participate in mo- met-naklebad Tu SeeZlo.
bilization operations. They should insure security and safety of
state borders together with frontier guard, police, institutions of dRes erovnul gvardias sabrZolo qvedanayofebi ar
local governing and etc. Before we struggled, but now – National hyavs. erovnuli gvardiis departamenti savaldebu-
Guard provides operations for stability. lo sarezervo samsaxurSi gawveul saqarTvelos mo-
qalaqeebs amzadebs. rezervi zurgis anu TavdacviTi
Draft of citizens for reservist obligatory trainings is starting on operaciebisTvis gamoiyeneba. aravin ar unda ifiqros,
March. How is National Guard Department preparing for this rom 18 dReSi gawvrTnili jariskaci sabrZolo moq-
measure? medebebis wina xazze aRmoCndebian. Tu saqarTvelo sao-
mar moqmedebebSi Caebmeba, rezervistebi mobilizaciis
operaciebSi miiReben monawileobas. maT adgilobriv
With great expectations. We do our best to present excellent train-
mTavrobasTan, TviTmmarTvelobasTan da policiasTan,
ing program for citizens. Because of this we ask the Joint Staff aseve saxelmwifo sazRvrispira raionebSi adgilobriv
and currently are undergoing the training for National Guard mesazRvreebTan erTad saqarTvelos teritoriuli
Instructors at the base of “Krtsanisi” National Training Centre. mTlianoba unda daicvan an aRadginon. amaSi didi sxvao-
Instructors have eighteen-day training for better preparation. For baa. maSin vibrZodiT, axla ki gvardias stabilizaciis
me it is not so important what distance the reservists will have operaciebis Sesruleba evaleba.
run – 30 or 40 kilometers. That is not the main concern. The
mail goal of this event is to introduce reservists to each other, savaldebulo sarezervo samsaxurSi saqarTvelos
to know providing operations for stabilization, who will be their moqalaqeebis gawveva wels martidan iwyeba. rogor
mates in the battle. Reservists should know shooting, help the emzadeba erovnuli gvardiis departamenti am mov-
wounded and provide first aid. lenisaTvis?

Corporals, chiefs and instructors are passing recruitment train- maRali SemarTebiT. Cven maqsimums vakeTebT raTa saval-
debulo sarezervo samsaxurSi gawveul saqarTvelos
ings at this moment. This is done for the first time as I know.
moqalaqeebs ukeTesi programa SevTavazoT. swored
What is the main motivation for their training?
amitom, Cven TxovniT mivmarTeT gaerTianebul Stabs da
ganaTlebis departamentis `erovnul saswavlo centr
I wanted to know how prepared the instructors were both physi- `krwanis~-Si amJamad erovnuli gavrdiis departamentis
cally and ethically. Reservists’ eighteen-day training is focused on instruqtorebis wvrTna mimdinareobs. instruqtorebi
their ethical drill. The training program for reservists was writ- Tavad gaivlian 18 dRian Sekrebas, rom Semdeg ukeT imuS-
ten by instructors. Well prepared instructors will be able to write aon rezervistebTan. CemTvis mniSvnelovani namdvilad
more improved training programs. The instructors have opportu- ar aris rezervistebma 30-40 kilometriani distancia
nities to expose shortcomings in the program after retraining and gairbinon, es prioritetuli ar gaxlavT. mTavaria maT
will be able to figure this out. gaicnon erTmaneTi, icodnen, Tundac stabilizaciis
operaciis Sesrulebis SemTxvevaSi, visTan erTad wav-
What kind of innovations will the reservists expect from the Nation- len samxedro samsaxurSi. iswavlon pirveladi unar-
al Guard Department? Which age group will be given attention? Cvevebi: mizanSi srola, brZolis velidan daWrilebis
gamoyvana da pirveladi samedicino daxmareba gaweva.
The recruitment process will be carried out by territorial units.
am etapze rezervistebis wvrTnebs serJantebi, meTau-
The draft law introducing changes into the law on Obligatory
rebi da instruqtorebi gadian. rogorc cnobilia es
Reservist Service is being prepared. Therefore the distinction of
pirvelad xdeba. gasuli wlis gamocdilebam ganapi-
recruits’ age will change and will be 40 years. Military service roba maTi gawvrTnis aucilebloba Tu sxva ram moti-
will be obligatory for five times and citizens will be called for vacia arsebobs?
duty once every two years. Changes will be made in the terms of
recruitment. mindoda davrwmunebuliyavi, rom is adamianebi, rom-
lebsac instruqtorebi hqviaT, Tavad ramdenad arian
It is well known that a new base of reservist training is under con- fizikurad da moralurad mzad. rezervistebis saval-
struction. Would you tell about the construction phase and which debulo samxedro samsaxurSi gawveva mxolod 18 dRiT

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xdeba. amitom rezervistebis momzadebisas ZiriTadi
aqcenti maT moralur momzadebaze keTdeba. rezerv-
istTa momzadebis dRes arsebuli programa instruq-
torebis dawerilia. instruqtorebi ukve arsebuli
gamocdilebiTa da im gamocdilebis gaTvaliswinebiT,
romelsac isini wvrTnebis dros daagroveben, momaval-
Si SeZleben ufro daxvewon rezervistTa momzadebis
programebi., Tu programaSi xarvezebia instruqtorebi
praqtikaSi maT ukeT dainaxaven da am xarvezebis gamos-
worebis gzebic ufro advili mosaZebni gaxdeba.

ra siaxleebi elodebaT momaval rezervistebs

erovnuli gavrdiis departamentisagan. wels romel
asakobriv kategorias daeTmoba meti yuradReba?

savaldebulo sarezervo samsaxurSi saqarTvelos mo-

qalaqeebis gawveva regionebis mixedviT moxdeba. mimdin-
areobs muSaoba `savaldebulo sarezervo samsaxuris
Sesaxeb~, saqarTvelos kanonSi cvlilebebis Setanis
Taobaze. savaraudod rezervSi gasawvevi moqalaqee-
bis asakobrivi zRvaric Seicvleba da 40 weli gaxdeba.
savaldebulo sarezervo samsaxurSi wasvla savalde-
bulo iqneba mxolod xuTjer da moqalaqeebis gawveva
rezervSi or weliwadSi erTxel moxdeba. cvlilebebi
sarezervo Sekrebis vadebSic ganxorcieldeba.

cnobilia, rom Sendeba rezervistTa momzadebis axali

baza. ra etapzea mSenebloba, romeli batalioni iqneba
iq dislocirebuli da saqarTvelos romeli regionis
moqalaqeebisTvis iqneba igi gansazRvruli?

axali samxedro bazis mSenebloba xonSi mimdinareobs. es

baza erTdroulad 1500 rezervists miiRebs. saremonto
samuSaoebi martSi dasruldeba da dasavleT saqarT-
velos moqalaqeebisTvis iqneba gankuTvnili. battalion will be located there? And population of which region
would be able to serve there?
SarSan savaldebulo sarezervo samsaxuri eqimebi-
sgan dakompleqtebulma batalionmac gaiara. igegme- We are building the new base in Khoni. This base is provided for
ba Tu ara wels profesiuli niSniT dakompleqtebuli 1500 reservists. Repairs there will end in March and population
sxva batalionebis Seqmna da saerTod, samomavlod from western part of Georgia will serve there.
erovnuli gvardiis departamenti ra mniSvnelovani
proeqtebisa da RonisZiebebis ganxorcielebas geg- The battalion recruited by medical persons passed military train-
mavs?
ing last year. Are you planning to create battalions by professional
features? And would you emphasize future plans and projects of
rogorc Tqven aRniSneT, Camoyalibda samedicino bata-
lioni. aseve Seiqmna maSvelTa batalionic. es batal- National Guard?
ionebi saomari mdgomareobis garda mSvidobianobis
drosac stiqiuri ubedurebis likvidaciisaTvis iqneba As you mentioned the medical battalion was created. Rescuers
gamoyenebuli. battalion was made as well. Above mentioned battalions will
solve problems during act of God in the peace time.
rac Seexeba mniSvnelovan proeqtebs, am etapze mimdin-
areobs muSaoba 2015 wlamde konkretuli koncefciis Concerning projects, at this time we work on a concrete concep-
Camoyalibebaze. unda Camoyalibdes konkretuli xedva, tion up to 2015. We should prepare specific vision about coun-
ra sWirdeba Cvens qveyanas, imisaTvis, rom Tamamad da try’s requirements for carrying on dialogues with its neighbors
xmamaRla velaparakoT Cvens nebismier mezobels. easily.

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 nato-s mudmivmoqmedi sabWos
nato da saqarTvelo

warmomadgenlebis viziti
NATO and Georgia

saqarTveloSi
eka komaxiZe
eka komakhidZe

NATO Permanent Representatives visited Crdilo-atlantikuri mudmivmoqmedi sabWos

Georgia on February 13-16, 2008. warmomadgenlebi 13-16 Tebervals vizitiT
imyofebodnen saqarTveloSi. vizitis farg-
In the framework of the visit their delega- lebSi delegaciis wevrebi Sexvdnen saqarT-
tion met with Chairperson of the Parliament velos parlamentis Tavmjdomares, qalbaton
of Georgia H.E. Nino Burjanadze, State Min- nino burjanaZes, saxelmwifo ministrs re-
ister on Reintegration Temur Iakobashvili, integraciis sakiTxebSi, baton Temur iako-
OSCE Mission to Georgia, representatives of baSvils, euTo-s misias saqarTveloSi, aras-
NGOs and the Embassies. amTavrobo organizaciebisa da Sesabamisi
saelCoebis warmomadgenlebs.
The five-person delegation of NATO Ambassadors visited the
Base for Special Operations Group in Vashlijvari. The delega- nato-s elCebis xuTkaciani delegacia vaSlijvris
tion was introduced to the exercise process and saw the living
specialuri operaciebis samxedro nawils estumra.
conditions of the servicemen as well as the infrastructure of the
delegaciis wevrebi aRniSnuli samxedro bazis in-
base.
frastruqturas, samxedro mosamsaxureebis sacx-
The Permanent Representative of Latvia in NATO Janis Eich-
ovrebel pirobebs, maTi momzadebisa da saswavlo
manis has positively estimated the preparation level of the
procesis mimdinareobis specifikas gaecnen.
Georgian military servicemen and has emphasized the impor-
tance of participation of the Georgian peacekeepers in interna-
tional operations. Crdilo-atlantikur sabWoSi latviis mudmivma
warmomadgenelma ianis eikmanisma dadebiTad Seafa-
The NATO Ambassadors held a meeting with First Deputy sa qarTveli samxedro mosamsaxureebis momzadebis
Defence Minister Batu Kutelia and Deputy Defence Minister done da xazi gausva saqarTvelos samSvidobo misie-
Giorgi Muchaidze. During the meeting, the sides discussed is- bis monawileobis mniSvnelobas saerTaSoriso samS-
sues related to Georgia’s integration into NATO and focused vidobo operaciebSi.

nato-s elCebi saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministro-

sac ewvivnen da Sexvdnen saqarTvelos Tavdacvis
ministris pirvel moadgiles baton baTu quTelias
da ministris moadgiles baton giorgi muCaiZes.

Sexvedris formatSi mxareebma isaubres saqarT-

velos nato-Si integraciis perspeqtivebze, ganix-
iles buqarestis samitis dRis wesrigiT gaTval-
iswinebuli mniSvnelovani sakiTxebi. aseve, isaubres
saqarTvelo - nato-s damatebiT erTobliv RonisZie-
natos mudmivmoqmedi sabWos warmomadgenlebi bebze, romlebic pozitiur asaxvas hpo­vebda buqar-
Tavdacvis saministroSi
estis samitze da xels Seuwyobdnen saqarTvelos
NATO PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVES AT MOD
aliansSi gawevrianebis samoqmedo gegmis miRebas.

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Visit to Georgia

Sexvedris dasrulebis Semdeg estoneTis respubli- on topic of the Bucharest Summit. In particular, the sides dis-
kis sagangebo da sruluflebianma elCma, mudmivma cussed additional joint measures with NATO, which could be
warmomadgenelma Crdilo-atlantikur alianSi, positively reflected at the Bucharest Summit and supported
batonma iuri luikma Seafasa nato-s delegaciis Georgia’s getting a MAP.
viziti saqarTveloSi da Sexvedra Tavdacvis samin-
istros xelmZRvanelobasTan. After end of the meeting Ambassador Extraordinary and Pleni-
potentiary, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Es-
ra aris nato-s delegaciis vizitis mTavari miza-
tonia to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Juri Luik
ni?
made some comments concerning the delegation’s visit and
gave his impressions about the meeting with the leadership of
Cven, nato-s elCebi, CamovediT saqarTveloSi raTa
ganvixiloT saqarTvelos rogorc ekonomikuri,
the Ministry of Defence of Georgia.
aseve politikuri ganviTarebis sxvadasxva aspeqte-
bi, aseve Tavdacvis sferoSi ganxorcielebuli da What is the main goal of your visit?
mimdinare reformebis pirobebi, vinaidan Crdilo-
atlantikur aliansSi mimdinareobs msjeloba imaze, We are here with the group of NATO ambassadors and we dis-
Tu rogor uaxlovdeba nato saqarTvelos da piri- cussed at this meeting and at other meetings that we had in
qiT, saqarTvelo - nato-s. es aris faqtebis moZiebis Tbilisi various aspects of how Georgia has developed both po-
misia, romelic warmatebiT Sesrulda da Cven Zalian litically and economically. Also, we discussed defence reform
kmayofilebi varT. because in NATO there is a debate and discussion of NATO
approaching Georgia and Georgia approaching NATO. So in
aRniSnuli sakiTxebi ganvixileT dRevandel Sexve- this framework we came to visit. It is a fact-finding mission and
draze da sxva Sexvedrebzec, romelic gvqonda Tbi- it has gone very well, we are very satisfied.
lisSi Cveni vizitis formatSi.
How do you envisage Georgia’s role in the process of building
rogor SeafasebdiT saqarTvelos rols globa- global security?
luri usafrTxoebis uzrunvelyofis proceseb-
Si? That is a most important aspect in which Georgia is a real part-
ner to us. You have done a lot and we are very happy to cooper-
es umniSvnelovanesi aspeqtia, saqarTvelo realu-
ate with you.
ri partnioria CvenTvis. Tqven bevrs miaRwieT da
Zalian moxaruli varT viTanamSromloT saqarTve-
As President Saakashvili stressed in his speech at the Munich
losTan.
Conference, “Georgia decided that democracy and integration
prezidentma saakaSvilma Tavis gamosvlaSi miun- into the Euro-Atlantic alliance would be the basis of our stabil-
henis konferenciaze aRniSna, rom `saqarTvelos ity, our security, and our economic prosperity.” I would like to
gadawyvetilebiT demokratia da evro-atlanti- note that in a plebiscite held together with our presidential elec-
kur aliansSi integracia Cveni stabilurobis, tion last month, 77 percent of the Georgian people supported
usafrTxoebisa da ekonomikuri ganviTarebis our NATO path.
safuZveli iqneboda~. minda aRvniSno isic, rom
plebiscitis SedegebiT, romelic saprezidento Could you see Georgia on the way towards NATO? What chal-
arCevnebis paralelurad Catarda, saqarTvelos lenges and opportunities do you see on this way?

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 moqalaqeebis 77%-ma mxari dauWira saqarTvelos
nato-Si integraciis gzas. rogor SeafasebdiT
nato-sken mimaval saqarTvelos gzas da ra ga-
mowvevebsa da SesaZleblobebs xedavT aRniSnul
gzaze?

vfiqrob, rom saqarTvelo ukve adgas nato-Si inte-

graciis gzas da is faqti, rom mosaxleobis 77%-ma
mxari dauWira Crdilo-atlantikur aliansSi ga-
wevrianebas, aris Zalian mniSvnelovani, vinaidan
erT-erTi fundamentaluri kiTxva romelsac nato
usvams gawevrianebis axal pretendentebs aris: -
iuri luiki gsurT iyoT axlos natos-Tan, gsurT iyoT nato-s
Juri Luik wevri?

Tqven gaqvT sazogadoebis sakmarisi mxardaWera da

es kriteriumi Zalian kargad aris Sesrulebuli
I think you are following the NATO path and the fact that saqarTveloSi. minda aRvniSno, rom es Zalian kargi
77% of your population supported NATO membership is maCvenebelia da gaTvaliswinebulia yvelas mier.
very important, because one of the questions NATO always
asks from new aspirants is whether they want to be closer to nato_Si integraciis idea sakmaod gavrcelebulia
NATO, want to be members of NATO, whether they have axali demokratiis qveynebSi da maT Soris saqar-
enough public support. Clearly these criteria are very well TveloSic. ganxorcielda IPAP-is SemfasebelTa
fulfilled in the case of Georgia. So it was a very good result misiis viziti, saqarTvelos Tavdacvis strategiu-
and everybody has noticed it. li dokumenti asaxavs Cveni qveynis operatiul Se-
saZleblobebsa da momzadebis dones.
The idea of NATO integration is powerful in new democracies
Tqveni azriT saqarTvelo aris mzad imisaTvis,
like Georgia. The IPAP assessment mission visited our country,
rom miiRos gawevrianebis samoqmedo gegma?
and our recently completed SDR confirm the level of Georgia’s
operational capacities and preparedness. saboloo gadawyvetileba, ra Tqma unda, miiReba
Crdilo-atlantikuri aliansis mier, magram erTm-
Do you think Georgia is ready to receive the Membership Action niSvnelovnad - Tqven gaakeTeT Zalian bevri. yvela
Plan? Sefaseba aris Zalian pozitiuri. rogorc esto-
neTis warmomadgeneli, romelmac aseve gaiara re-
The final decision, of course, is made by the North Atlantic formirebis procesi, getyviT, rom es ar aris ioli,
Alliance, but you have certainly done a lot. The assessments Tumca, Tqven yvela es sirTuleebi daZlieT. esto-
are all very positive. I mean, you have really done an enormous neTi aris saxelmwifo, romelic mxars giWerT, rom
amount of work, an enormous amount of reforms. As a rep- miiRoT gawevrianebis samoqmedo gegma. magram cxa-
resentative of a country that has been reforming itself as well dia, rom saboloo gadawyvetilebas miiRebs Cdilo-
– Estonia – I can tell that it is not easy and you have overcome atlantikuri aliansis sabWos 26 wevri.
all these difficulties. Estonia is a country that supports your
aspirations to gain the Membership Action Plan. But obviously, ra unda gaiTvaliswinos saqarTvelom estoneTis
the final decision will be made by the 26 members of the North gamocdilebidan?
Atlantic Council.
Zalian bevri ramis Tqma SemiZlia, es xangrZlivi sau-
bris Temaa. estoneTi cdilobs rCevebi mogceT ara
What does Georgia have to consider from Estonia’s experience?
mxolod Tavdacvis reformirebis sferoSi, aramed
politikuri reformebis ganxorcielebis Tvalsa-
There are so many things that I could tell you, I mean it’s a very
zrisiTac. estoneTi axlo momavalSi saqarTvelos
detailed discussion and we have had this discussion for a long politikuri opoziciis warmomadgenlebis miwvevas
time. gegmavs. gvinda vaCvenoT Tu rogor muSaobs opo-
zicia estoneTSi, rogoria ombucmenis instituti,
Estonia has tried to give its advice not only in the sphere of Cveni ombucmeni Camova raTa gauziaros samuSao ga-
defence reform, but also in political reform; we will soon receive mocdileba Tqvens ombucmens da auxsnas Tu rogor
a delegation of the Georgian opposition in Estonia, trying to axorcielebs Tavis saqmianobas estoneTSi.
show how opposition works in Estonia. Our ombudsman will
come to work with the Georgian ombudsman to try to explain vcdilobT gavuziaroT Cveni yvela gamocdileba
how ombudsman works in Estonia. qarTvel kolegebs da mxolod Tqveni gadasawyve-

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tia Tu raoden sasargeblo da misaRebia Cveni maga-
liTebi. magram cxadia, rom Tavdacvis sakiTxebSi So we are trying to pass all this experience to our Georgian col-
Tqven gaiziareT bevri ram estoneTisa da zogadad leagues. Of course, it’s your decision whether anything is usable
dasavleTis gamocdilebidan. es aris mizezi Tqveni for you or not. But certainly in the defence sphere you have
warmatebisa. used a lot of Estonian and western experience and that’s why
you have done so well.
mogexsenebaT, rom ruseTs sakuTari gaTvlebi
aqvs kavkasiis regionSi stabilurobisa da usafr- Russia has a special stake in the stability and security of the
Txoebis miRwevis TvalsazrisiT. rogor aisaxeba
Caucasus region.
kosovos damoukideblobis gamocxadebis sakiTxi
saqarTveloSi arsebul konfliqtur regionebze
How will Kosovo affect the unresolved territorial conflicts in
da ramdenad daaCqarebs nato_Si Cveni integracia
konfliqtebis gadaWris process? Georgia? Will NATO integration accelerate the conflict resolu-
tion process?
dasavluri sazogadoeba aucileblad ixilavs sa-
qarTvelos nato-Si. unda gavusvaT xazi, rom koso- The western community has emphasized that Kosovo is very
vo Zalian gansxvavebulia sxva situaciebisgan da different from any other situation: it is what is called sui generis
amitomac ganixileba kosovos sakiTxi, rogorc sui (Kosovo is sui generis because of moral, legal, and historic rea-
generic (unikaluri, iSviaTi – moraluri, legalu- sons) and it is a particular situation that has been explained to
ri da istoriuli mizezebis gamo) da es specifiuri everybody. So I hope that everybody takes note of that revolving
situacia ganmartebulia yvelasaTvis. Sesabamisad public opinion and that the whole thing goes peaceful.
yvela iTvaliswinebs sazogadoebis azrs da mSvido-
bianad Caivlis yvelaferi. rekomendaciebisaTvis We did not come here to give advice because Georgia is on the
ar CamovsulvarT, saqarTvelom gaxada dialogi stage of Intensified Dialogue. You are in many other processes
intensiuri. bevri sxva procesebis msvlelobisas where you get lots and lots of advice. Georgia has developed
Tqven araerTi rCeva migiRiaT, saqarTvelo viTar- very well, we are very satisfied with that and we did not come
deba Zalian warmatebulad, Cven gamovxatavT kmayo- with particular pieces of advice. We just came to talk and to
filebas. ar CamovsulvarT konkretuli rCevebis look around.
misacemad. CamovediT raTa visaubroT da sakuTari
TvaliT vixiloT yvelaferi.

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cen­tri 2008 wels

77.5 % of the Georgian population supports sa­qar­Tve­los mo­sax­leo­bis 77,5 pro­cen­tma

the country’s integration into NATO. Every- qvey­nis na­to_Si in­teg­ra­cias dau­Wi­ra mxa­ri.
body knows how important and relevant our yve­la­saT­vis cno­bi­lia ram­de­nad mniS­vne­lo­
country’s membership in NATO is. Hence, it is va­ni da uf­ro me­tad aq­tua­lu­ri gax­da Cve­ni
natural that there are a lot of unanswered qvey­nis na­to-Si ga­wev­ria­ne­ba. aqe­dan ga­mom­di­
questions inside the society. NATO is the is- na­re, bu­neb­ri­via sa­zo­ga­doe­ba­Si alian­sis Se­
sue of discussion not only for people living
sa­xeb bev­ri pa­sux­gau­ce­me­li kiT­xva ar­se­bobs.
in Georgia, but for Georgians living abroad
na­to_sTan mi­mar­Te­ba­Si saub­ro­ben ara mar­to
as well. It might sound surprising, but these
people are very well aware of our center’s sa­qar­Tve­lo­Si mcxov­re­bi ada­mia­ne­bi, ara­med
existence and its activities. uc­xoeT­Si myo­fi qar­Tve­le­bic, rom­leb­mac
ram­de­na­dac ga­sak­vi­ri ar un­da iyos, Zal­zed
We would like to show you a letter of a Georgian citizen Giorgi kar­gad ician Cve­ni cen­tris ar­se­bo­bi­sa da
Kistauri, who lives in Germany at the moment: “I want to say saq­mia­no­bis Se­sa­xeb.

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on NATO in 2008

gvin­da ga­gac­noT ger­ma­nia­Si mcxov­re­bi sa­qar­Tve­los hello to the Information Center on NATO and its staff. I am very
mo­qa­la­qis gior­gi qis­tau­ris we­ri­li: `mi­ve­sal­me­ glad that this center was established in Georgia. This is the first
bi na­to-s sain­for­ma­cio centrs da mis yve­la Ta­nam­ step leading to Georgia’s eventual integration in the North At-
Sro­mels. mi­xa­ria, rom es cen­tri gaix­sna sa­qar­Tve­ lantic Treaty Organization. Indeed Georgia is a respected partici-
li­Si. es aris pir­ve­li mer­cxa­li da mo­mas­wa­ve­be­li pant of many international missions. During the last elections, I
imi­sa, rom dRes Tu xval sa­qar­Tve­lo gax­de­ba mi­si voted for NATO and advised others who were hesitating to do
the same. To be short, at present I live in Germany and we are
Rir­seu­li wev­ri. sa­qar­Tve­lo mar­Tlac Rir­seu­lad
actively engaged in popularizing NATO among Georgians from
dgas saer­Ta­So­ri­so Ro­nis­Zie­beb­Si. ar­Cev­neb­ze, ra
here. We have a symbol of NATO stuck on our car and on the
Tqma un­da, Se­mov­xa­zeT `diax~ da sxveb­sac igi­ves var­ front door of our hostel apartment. You can rely on us anytime.
wmu­neb­di, vinc or­Wo­fob­da. mok­led sit­yva rom ar It is a big honor for us to contribute to this historic process.”
ga­mig­rZel­des, am­Ja­mad ger­ma­nia­Si vcxov­rob da Cven
aqe­Ta fron­ti­dan gex­ma­re­biT pro­pa­gan­dis dar­gSi. The NATO Information Center started the year 2008 with new
man­qa­na­zec na­to-s sim­bo­lo gvaqvs da stu­den­tu­ri energy and aspirations. The center has long been supplying the
sac­xov­reb­lis kar­zec. Tqvens gver­diT gvi­gu­leT population with exact and competent information on NATO.
da dax­ma­re­bis­Tvi­sac mzad varT. pi­ri­qiT, pa­ti­via am Center began January-February with meetings with Diplomatic
is­to­riul saq­me­Si pa­ta­ra wvli­lis Se­ta­na.~ Corps. The first meeting was held with the representative of Euro-
Atlantic Integration and Partnership Directorate of Political Af-
2008 we­li `sain­for­ma­cio cen­trma na­to_s Se­sa­xeb~: fairs and Security Policy Division Mr. James Mackey. Volunteers
of the NATO Information Center attended the meeting. They
axa­li ener­gii­Ta da Se­mar­Te­biT daiw­yo. cen­tri di­
asked the representative of the Alliance’s International Staff
di xa­nia cdi­lobs da kvla­vac ga­nag­rZobs mo­sax­leo­
questions concerning NATO’s priorities and future enlargement.
bi­saT­vis zus­ti da kom­pe­ten­tu­ri in­for­ma­ciis mi­wo­ Mr. James Mackey mentioned that it is necessary for Georgia’s
de­bas na­to_s Se­sa­xeb. 2008 wlis ian­var_Te­ber­va­li integration into NATO to continue reforms and strengthening
na­to_s sain­for­ma­cio cen­tri­saT­vis dip­lo­ma­tiur of democracy.
kor­pus­Tan Sex­ved­re­biT daiw­yo. pir­ve­li Sex­ved­ra
cen­tris ofis­Si ev­roat­lan­ti­ku­ri in­teg­ra­cii­sa da The next official meeting was arranged in the Ministry of Foreign
par­tnio­ro­bis di­req­to­ra­tis saer­Ta­So­ri­so po­li­ Affairs, where the issue of increasing public knowledge about
ti­ki­sa da usaf­rTxoe­bis gan­yo­fi­le­bis war­mo­mad­ NATO was discussed. Chief specialist of the Information Cen-
ge­nel­Tan ba­ton jeims me­qis­Tan Sed­ga. Sex­ved­ras ter on NATO, Anatoli Korepanov, made a presentation on the
cen­tris mo­xa­li­see­bic es­wre­bod­nen. maT alian­sis activities implemented during 2007 and the action plan for 2008
saer­Ta­So­ri­so sam­sa­xu­ris war­mo­mad­ge­nels kiT­xve­ with a detailed description of future activities and main priorities
of the Information Center. The Evaluation Team positively as-
bi na­to-s prio­ri­te­teb­ze da alian­sis sa­mo­mav­lo
sessed the Center’s activities. The final official evaluation will be
ga­far­Toe­ba­ze daus­ves. jeims me­qim aR­niS­na, rom sa­
available after consultations at NATO headquarters.
qar­Tve­los na­to-Si ga­wev­ria­ne­bi­saT­vis mniS­vne­lo­
va­nia qve­ya­na­Si re­for­me­bis gag­rZe­le­ba da de­mok­ra­ Every month during 2008 the NATO Information Center will ar-
ti­za­ciis pro­ce­sis ki­dev uf­ro gan­mtki­ce­ba. range a “NATO Day” at various universities of Georgia. NATO
experts and political scientists will lead the seminars on relevant
mom­dev­no ofi­cia­lu­ri Sex­ved­ra sa­ga­reo saq­me­Ta issues. The main purpose of these meetings is to give students
sa­mi­nis­tro­Si Sed­ga, sa­dac gan­xi­lul iq­na sa­qar­Tve­ detailed information about the Alliance policy and international
lo­Si na­to_s Se­sa­xeb sa­zo­ga­doe­bis in­for­mi­re­bis politics generally. Georgian institute was first to host “NATO

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Day”. The lecture was given by the former minister of foreign sa­kiT­xi. Sex­ved­ra­ze na­to_s sain­for­ma­cio cen­trma
affairs Irakli Menagharishvili. wa­rad­gi­na cen­tris mier 2007 wels gan­xor­cie­le­
bu­li Ro­nis­Zie­be­bis mi­mo­xil­va, ase­ve 2008 wlis sa­
Not less significant is the work done by the Center’s branches in moq­me­do geg­ma. cen­tris war­mo­mad­ge­nel­ma ana­to­li
Batumi and Telavi. Worth mentioning is a meeting organized by ko­re­pa­nov­ma daw­vri­le­biT isaub­ra Tu ra sa­xis Ro­
Kakheti bureau at Telavi office of Georgian Young Lawyers As- nis­Zie­bebs Caa­ta­rebs cen­tri 2008 wels da ra iq­ne­ba
sociation, where debates were conducted on the subject of NATO.
mi­si saq­mia­no­bis mTa­va­ri prio­ri­te­te­bi. sain­for­
Georgia’s integration into NATO, its political, military and eco-
ma­cio cen­tris saq­mia­no­ba zo­ga­dad da­de­bi­Tad Se­
nomic aspects were discussed at the meeting.
fas­da. sa­bo­loo ofi­cia­lur Se­fa­se­bebs ki Sem­fa­
On February 29, the NATO Information Center arranged an of- se­bel­Ta jgu­fi briu­sel­Si kon­sul­ta­cie­bis Sem­deg
ficial meeting with the representatives of Diplomatic Corps at ga­moaq­vey­nebs.
Hotel Courtyard Marriot. The main purpose of the meeting was
to represent the Center’s Action Plan of 2008 and summarize `sain­for­ma­cio cen­tri na­to_s Se­sa­xeb~ 2008 wlis
the activities implemented last year. gan­mav­lo­ba­Si sa­qar­Tve­los sxva­das­xva umaR­les sas­
wav­leb­leb­Si yo­vel­Tviu­rad «na­to_s dRes~ ga­mar­
The guests positively evaluated the job the Information Center Tavs. se­mi­nars na­to_s Te­ma­ti­ka­ze mo­mu­Sa­ve eq­sper­
did last year and approved of the plan for 2008. The meeting te­bi da po­li­to­lo­ge­bi Caa­ta­re­ben. sa­qar­Tve­los
was attended by the representatives of embassies of Lithuania, umaR­les sas­wav­leb­leb­Si na­to_s dRee­bis ga­mar­Tvis
Bulgaria, the USA, France, Romania, Turkey, Estonia, Latvia,
mi­za­nia stu­den­te­bis uf­ro de­ta­lu­ri in­for­mi­re­ba
Poland, Ukraine and Germany, as well as NATO liaison officer
na­to_s Te­ma­ti­ka­ze da maT yve­la Se­kiT­xva­ze amom­
in the Caucasus Zbigniew Rybacki, who appreciated the work
of the center and mentioned that the 2008 Action Plan is even wu­ra­vi pa­su­xe­bis ga­ce­ma. pir­ve­li Sex­ved­ra cen­tris
more impressive. “It is very important that the center works in egi­diT sa­qar­Tve­los sa­zo­ga­doeb­riv saq­me­Ta in­
regions as well and has active relations with ethnic minorities. sti­tut­Si (GI­PA) moew­yo. se­mi­na­ri sa­qar­Tve­los yo­
I think you can be proud of the work you did last year,” said fil­ma sa­ga­reo saq­me­Ta mi­nis­trma da sa­qar­Tve­los
Rybacki. at­lan­ti­ku­ri sab­Wos Tav­mjdo­ma­rem irak­li me­na­Ra­
riS­vil­ma Caa­ta­ra.
Embassy representatives expressed their wish to continue future
cooperation with the Centre and to participate together in differ- Za­lian mniS­vne­lo­va­nia na­to_s sain­for­ma­cio cen­
ent projects initiated by the NATO Information Center. German tris ba­Tu­mi­sa da ka­xe­Tis fi­lia­le­bis saq­mia­no­ba.
Defense Attaché Christian Farkhondeh offered to give a lecture aR­sa­niS­na­via ka­xe­Tis ofi­sis mier or­ga­ni­ze­bu­li Sex­
to volunteers and students of the center.
ved­ra `sa­qar­Tve­los axal­gaz­rda iu­ris­tTa aso­cia­
ciis~ Te­la­vis ofis­Si, sa­dac sa­qar­Tve­los na­to_Si
Every month during the whole year the center intends to publish
an insert called “NATO in Georgia” in 24 Hours, a top Georgian in­teg­ra­ciis Te­ma­ze de­ba­te­bi moew­yo. Ro­nis­Zie­ba­Si
newspaper. “NATO in Georgia” consists of news and publica- aR­niS­nu­li or­ga­ni­za­ciis mo­xa­li­see­bi mo­na­wi­leob­
tions about Georgia-NATO relations. dnen. Sex­ved­ra sain­te­re­sod wa­ri­mar­Ta. de­ba­teb­ze
ga­ni­xi­les ro­gorc sa­qar­Tve­los na­to_Si ga­wev­ria­
The novelty of the NATO Information Center is an internation- ne­bis po­li­ti­ku­ri, sam­xed­ro da eko­no­mi­ku­ri as­peq­
al competition “Aliante 2008”, which Georgia first joined this te­bi, ase­ve am pro­ce­sis Se­saZ­lo da­de­bi­Ti da uar­yo­
year. The competition targets pupils between 15 to 19 years old. fi­Ti Se­de­ge­bi.
The national coordinator in Georgia “new Generation-new Ini-
tiative” in partnership with the NATO Information Center will 29 Te­ber­vals, `sain­for­ma­cio cen­trma na­to_s Se­sa­
organize two national rounds throughout the country and send xeb~ sas­tum­ro `qor­Tiard ma­riot­Si~ dip­lo­ma­tiu­ri
winners to Czech Republic to take part in the competition’s final
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mTa­va­ri mi­za­ni ga­sul wels gan­xor­cie­le­bu­li sa­mu­
Saos Se­ja­me­ba da 2008 wlis sa­moq­me­do geg­mis gac­no­
ba iyo. stum­reb­ma da­de­bi­Tad Sea­fa­ses cen­tris mier
2007 wels gan­xor­cie­le­bu­li Ro­nis­Zie­be­bi da 2008
wlis sa­moq­me­do geg­ma. Sex­ved­ras es­wre­bod­nen: lit­
vis, bul­ga­re­Tis, aSS_is, saf­ran­ge­Tis, ru­mi­ne­Tis,
Tur­qe­Tis, es­to­ne­Tis, lat­viis, po­lo­ne­Tis, uk­rai­
ni­sa da ger­ma­niis sael­Cos war­mo­mad­gen­le­bi, ase­ve
na­to_s me­kav­Si­re ofi­ce­ri kav­ka­sia­Si zbig­nev ri­bac­
ki, ro­mel­mac ase­ve moi­wo­na cen­tris saq­mia­no­ba da
aR­niS­na, rom 2008 wlis sa­moq­me­do geg­ma ki­dev uf­ro
STam­beW­da­via. `Za­lian mniS­vne­lo­va­nia, rom cen­tri
re­gio­neb­Sic saq­mia­nobs, esaub­re­ba erov­nul um­ci­
re­so­ba­Ta war­mo­mad­gen­lebs. Ce­mi az­riT, Tqven Se­
giZ­liaT ia­ma­yoT 2007 wels Ses­ru­le­bu­li sa­muSao­­
Ti~ - ga­nac­xa­da ri­bac­kim.

sael­Cos war­mo­mad­gen­leb­ma cen­tris sxva­das­xva sa­

xis proeq­teb­Si mo­na­wi­leo­bi­sa da Ta­nam­Srom­lo­bis
gag­rZe­le­bis sur­vi­li ga­moT­qves. ger­ma­niis sam­xed­
ro ata­Sem qris­tian far­khon­dem na­to_s sain­for­ma­
cio centrs mo­xa­li­se_stu­den­te­bis­Tvis na­to_s Se­
sa­xeb leq­ciis Ca­ta­re­ba Ses­Ta­va­za.

cen­tri mTe­li wlis gan­mav­lo­ba­Si ga­zeT `24 saaT­

Si~ yo­vel­Tviu­rad aq­vey­nebs sa­ga­ze­To da­ma­te­bas _
`na­to sa­qar­Tve­lo­Si~, ro­mel­Sic ibeW­de­ba na­to_s
axa­li am­be­bi, pub­li­ka­cie­bi alian­si­sa da sa­qar­Tve­
lo_na­to_s ur­Tier­To­be­bis Se­sa­xeb.

`sain­for­ma­cio cen­tris na­to_s Se­sa­xeb~ siax­les

war­moad­gens saer­Ta­So­ri­so kon­kur­si `alian­te
2008~, ro­mel­sac sa­qar­Tve­lo pir­ve­lad Seuer­Tda.
igi gan­kuT­vni­lia 15_dan 19 wlam­de axal­gaz­rde­bi­
saT­vis. sa­qar­Tve­lo­Si mis Ca­ta­re­ba­sa da ga­mar­jve­
bul mo­na­wi­le­Ta fi­nal­ze, Ce­xe­Tis res­pub­li­ka­Si
gam­gzav­re­bas uz­run­vel­yofs proeq­tis na­cio­na­lu­
ri koor­di­na­to­ri `axa­li Tao­ba _ axa­li ini­cia­ti­va~,
`na­to_s sain­for­ma­cio cen­trTan~ par­tnio­ro­biT.
kon­kur­sis mi­zans Crdi­lo_at­lan­ti­ku­ri xel­Sek­
ru­le­bis or­ga­ni­za­ciis, usaf­rTxoe­bis po­li­ti­ki­
sa da saer­Ta­So­ri­so ur­Tier­To­be­bis ukeT gac­no­ba
war­moad­gens.

na­to_s sain­for­ma­cio cen­tri ec­de­ba aq­tiu­rad ga­ round. The Aliante competition is centered on the promotion of
nag­rZos Ta­vi­si saq­mia­no­ba da sa­qar­Tve­los na­to_Si a greater understanding of the North-Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
in­teg­ra­ciis gza­ze qar­Tul sa­zo­ga­doe­bas kom­pe­ten­ tion, security policy, and international relations.
tu­ri in­for­ma­cia mia­wo­dos.
On Georgia’s way to North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the
NATO Information Center will continue to be as active as always
and will try to provide the population with competent informa-
tion.

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nik ridauti:
mouTmenlad veli im dRes, rodesac
saqarTvelo nato-Si Tavis
Rirseul adgils daimkvidrebs
nino gogoCiSvili
Nino Gogochishvili

The guest of our magazine is Lt Col Nick Ridout. Cveni Jurnalis stumaria vice-polkovniki
He is a British Defence Attache for Armenia, nik ridauti, didi britaneTis samxedro
Azerbaijan and Georgia. Nick Ridout has been ataSe saqarTveloSi, somxeTsa da azerbai-
accredited in Georgia since the year 2006. We janSi, romelic saqarTveloSi 2006 wlida-
naa akreditebuli. Tavdacvis ataSem Tavi-
visited his office for an interview. He shared
si Sexedulebebi gagviziara saqarTvelos
his impressions about Georgia, Georgia-British
Sesaxeb, gvesaubra saqarTvelo-britaneTs
Defence relations and about future prospects Soris arsebul samxedro TanamSromlobasa
of development of our country. da qveynis ganviTarebis samomavlo perspeq-
tivebze.
Mr Nick, you are British Defence Attache to Georgia. What were
your and your family’s first reactions, when you learned about your
departure to Georgia? What have you heard about Georgia be- batono nik, Tqven brZandebiT didi britaneTisa
fore? da CrdiloeT irlandiis gaerTianebuli same-
fos samxedro ataSe saqarTveloSi. ra reaqcia
I’ve had a long-term fascination with and interest in Georgia ever gqondaT Tqven da Tqvens ojaxis wevrebs rode-
since I was a teenager and I served here with the OSCE Mission sac gaigeT rom miemgzavrebodiT saqarTveloSi.
gsmenodaT manamde Cveni qveynis Sesaxeb?
in 1995. My wife had visited then, so she knew the country too.
That meant that when we were offered the chance of serving here
saqarTveloSi, euTos misiaSi, 1995 wlidan vmsax-
together for a longer period, it was like a dream come true – we urobdi, Tumca keTilganwyoba da usazRvro in-
both jumped at the chance without a moment’s hesitation. We teresi am qveynis mimarT bevrad ufro adre gamiC-
had not only experienced all the joys of Georgian culture but nda. Cemi meuRle saqarTvelos im periodSi estumra,
also I had already read up a lot on the history and travellers’ rodesac euTos misiaSi vmsaxurobdi, ase rom am
experiences. qveynis mimarT warmodgena masac hqonda. axdenili
ocnebis msgavsi iyo, rodesac gavigeT, rom me da Cems
Why did you decide to become a military? Why did you choose this meuRles SesaZlebloba gveZleoda saqarTveloSi
profession? didi xnis ganmavlobaSi erTad gvemsaxura. Cven es
Sansi xelidan ar gavuSviT da SemoTavazebas uyoy-
manod davTanxmdiT. Cven qarTul kulturasTan bo-
Both of my parents had served in the Armed Forces during the
lomde naziarebi ar vyofilvarT, magram garkveul-
Second World War and I grew up with their reminiscences about
wilad ukve vicnobdiT mis istorias da ucxoel mog-
that time. Although neither of them pushed me towards a mili- zaurTa Sexedulebebs Tqveni qveynis Sesaxeb.
tary career, to me it seemed natural to follow in their footsteps; I
never really seriously considered any other career. Also, the Brit- ratom gadawyviteT Tqveni samsaxuri samxedro
ish Armed Forces offers a pretty good career to any young per- mimarTulebiT. ratom airCieT samxedro mosam-
son – variety, opportunity, security, and the pay’s not bad too! saxuris profesia?

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Nick Ridout:
I look forward to the day when
Georgia has earned her place in NATO

meore msoflio omis dros, Cemi mSoblebi Seiara- When did your diplomatic career start? Where did you serve be-
Rebul ZalebSi msaxurobdnen. maTi mogonebebisa fore Georgia and what comparisons can you make?
da Tavgadasavlebis STabeWdilebebis qveS vizrde-
bodi. arc erT maTgans ar urCevia samxedro kari- I haven’t had a diplomatic career as such. Our Defence At-
era gamekeTebina. CemTvis bunebrivi iyo maT kvals tachés are all mainstream officers from backgrounds all over
gavyolodi. amas garda britaneTis SeiaraRebuli
the Services, although I was Defence Attaché in Tashkent for
Zalebic sakmaod warmatebul karieras sTavazobs
nearly 4 years before coming to Georgia. Other than that, I
nebismier axalgazrdas _ SesaZleblobebis farTo
arCevans, usafrTxoebasa da maRal anazRaurebas. have had a fairly standard Army career with tours in Germany,
Northern Ireland, Belize and in the Gulf for the First War, the
rodis daiwyo Tqveni diplomatiuri moRvaweoba. liberation of Kuwait. All of them are very different from each
saqarTvelomde romel qveyanaSi mogiwiaT sam- other (hence my comment about variety above). My posts have
saxuri da ra Sedarebebs gaakeTebdiT? alternated, like any British officer, between working in my spe-

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cialisation, which is military police, and more generalised posts SeiZleba iTqvas, rom rogorc aseTi diplomatiuri
as a staff officer. kariera, ar mqonia. Cveni qveynis Tavdacvis ataSee-
bi SeiaraRebuli Zalebis sxvadasxva saxeobis war-
What can you say about Georgia now, from this position? What momadgenlebi arian. saqarTveloSi Camosvlamde
was the most impressive for you and did you manage to become 4 wlis ganmavlobaSi, rogorc Tavdacvis ataSe,
taSkentSi vmsaxurobdi. garda amisa, standartuli
familiar with Georgian culture and traditions during this period?
samxedro kariera mqonda, rodesac germaniaSi, Cr-
diloeT irlandiaSi, belizsa da kuveitis ganmaT-
Georgia is in a position of most incredible change. There is still a
avisuflebeli brZolis dros sparseTis yureSi
lot more for your country to achieve, but from where I stand I see vmsaxurobdi. samxedro karieris TiToeul etapze
an energy and a drive to get there that is highly impressive. I be- Cemi saqmianoba erTmaneTisagan gansxvavdeboda.
came well acquainted with Georgian culture and traditions during Cemi Tanamdebobebi, tipiuri britaneli oficris
my time here in 1995 and kept in touch with several friends that I msgavsad, mudmivad icvleboda. vmuSaobdi Cemi pro-
made then. I even had the honour once of being made tamada at fesiiT - samxedro policielad, aseve Cveulebriv
a friendly supra, although I am afraid that I made an awful hash Tanamdebobaze rogorc Stabis oficeri.
of it – I could only do it in English (one of my friends translated
in to Georgian for me) and I kept on running out of things to say. dRevandeli gadmosaxedidan, ras gvetyodiT
I much prefer to listen to a Georgian do it properly! saqarTveloze? ra iyo yvelaze metad STambe-
Wdavi TqvenTvis? moaswariT Tu ara am peri-
What can you say about your assignment? What is your, as De- odSi gascnobodiT saqarTvelos kulturasa da
tradiciebs?
fence Attaché’s goal in Georgia?
saqarTvelo amJamad warmoudgeneli Zvrebisa da
This is a highly challenging post for me. Not only am I working cvlilebebis etapzea. jer kidev bevri ramaa ga-
in Georgia to help develop the Georgian Armed Forces, but I am sakeTebeli, magram im gadmosaxedidan, sadac me
also accredited to Baku and Yerevan, so I spend a lot of my time var, did STabeWdilebas axdens is udidesi ener-
in Azerbaijan and Armenia too. I think that this gives me a re- gia, mondomeba da cvlileba romelic qveyanaSia.
gional perspective that is very useful to me. My primary role is to 1995 wlidan SesaZlebloba mqonda axlos gavcno-
act as the military advisor to my Ambassador, but I also devote a bodi qarTul kulturasa da tradiciebs. pativi
lot of my time to helping the Georgian Armed Forces to achieve mqonda qarTul sufraze Tamadadac vyofiliyavi,
NATO standards by organising both training and advice. I look magram vSiSob rom saSinlad gamomivida _ me xom
forward to the day when Georgia has earned her place in NATO, mxolod inglisur enaze vmetyveleb (erTi Cemi me-
but I also believe that the reforms throughout society that Geor- gobari ki qarTulad Targmnida). bolos mivxvdi,
gia is implementing in order to achieve that aim are good for the rom saTqmeli gamomelia. sufraze bevrad sjobs
qarTvelebs mousmino.
country and society at large. NATO is not just a military but also
a political Alliance and all of our Members share certain funda-
ras mogviTxrobT Tqveni saqmianobis Sesaxeb? ra
mental beliefs about freedom, fairness and democracy.
aris Tqveni, rogorc samxedro ataSis saqmiano-
bis mizani saqarTveloSi?
Close partnership relations have been established between Georgia
and United Kingdom in defence sphere. What can you say about es Tanamdeboba CemTvis metad sapasuxismgebloa.
this co-operation and future plans? ara mxolod imitom, rom saqarTveloSi vmuSaob
da vexmarebi qarTul SeiaraRebul Zalebs, aramed
Our co-operation has been very close and we aim together to imitomac, rom aseve akreditebuli var baqosa da
carry this process forwards. We in the British Armed Forces who erevanSi. aqedan gamomdinare did dros vatareb
have served alongside our Georgian colleagues have all been very azerbaijansa da somxeTSic, rac mexmareba mTeli
impressed with the standards achieved so far in a very short time, regionis Sesaxeb garkveuli warmodgena Semeqmnas,
whilst recognising that there is still a long way to go. For the fu- rac CemTvis Zalian sasargebloa. Cemi upirvelesi
ture, I intend to do all that I can to help Georgia get in to NATO movaleobaa elCis samxedro mrCevloba, magram me
aseve did dros vuTmob davexmaro qarTul Seiara-
and to play her full role on the international stage, both militarily
Rebul Zalebs nato-s standartebTan miaxloebaSi.
and politically. We are providing more training opportunities to
britanuli mxare rCevebiTa da wvrTnebis organi-
Georgian servicemen and women and offering advice on reform zebiT did daxmarebas uwevs qarTul jars nato-
at the highest levels within the Ministry of Defence where it is sTan Tavsebadobis miRwevaSi. mouTmenlad veli im
requested. dRes, rodesac saqarTvelo nato-Si Tavis Rirseul
Georgia is at a very important stage in NATO integration process. adgils daimkvidrebs. mjera, rom is reformebi,
Security Conference on Defence Policy held in Munich has fin- romlebsac saqarTvelo am miznis misaRwevad axor-
ished. President of Georgia Michael Saakashvili once more reiter- cielebs, warmatebuli iqneba qveynisa da sazoga-

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doebisaTvis. nato ara marto samxedro, aramed ated country’s firm will to join the Alliance. How do you evaluate
politikuri organizaciacaa, romlis TiToeuli Georgia’s chances at upcoming Bucharest summit?
wevri aRiarebs Tavisuflebis, Tanasworobis da
demokratiis fundamentur faseulobebs. I would not like to comment specifically on the Bucharest Sum-
mit. NATO operates on the basis of consensus, so any decision
samxedro sferoSi did britaneTsa da saqarT-
requires the vote of 26 countries. I only represent one!
velos Soris mWidro partnioruli urTierTo-
bebi Camoyalibda. ras gvetyodiT am TanamSrom-
lobis Sesaxeb? And the final question. What wishes and recommendations would
you give to the Georgian Defence Ministry?
saqarTvelo da didi britaneTi samxedro sferoSi
mWidrod TanamSromloben. Cveni mizania am proce- That’s easy. Wishes? – all the best. And recommendations? –
sis gagrZelebaa. Cven britaneTis SeiaraRebuli keep up the good work!
Zalebis warmomadgenlebi, romlebic qarTvel
kolegebTan erTad vmsaxurobdiT, aRvfrTovan-
diT am mokle periodSi miRweuli warmatebebiT.
vaRiarebT imasac, rom bevri ram kidev gasakeTe-
belia. samomavlod, vapireb yvelafris gakeTebas
imisaTvis, rom saqarTvelos nato-Si Sesvlasa da
qveynis saerTaSoriso arenaze Rirseulad warmo-
Cenas, rogorc samxedro, aseve politikur doneze,
daxmareba gavuwio. Cven qarTveli samxedro mosam-
saxureebisTvis wvrTnebs uzrunvelvyofT. Tav-
dacvis saministros moTxovnis Sesabamisad, re-
formebis ganxorcielebis procesSi rCevebs umaR-
les donezedac vTavazobT.

saqarTvelo nato-sTan urTierTobis umniS-

vnelovanes etapze imyofeba. dasrulda miunx-
enis konferencia, sadac saqarTvelos prezi-
dentma mixeil saakaSvilma qveynis aliansSi gaw-
evrianebis uryevi survili kidev erTxel gamox-
ata. rogor SeafasebT gazafxulze buqarestis
samitze saqarTvelos Sansebs?

am etapze Tavs Sevikaveb komentari gavakeTo buqar-

estis samitTan dakavSirebiT. nato konsensusis
safuZvelze moqmedebs. ase rom nebismieri gadaw-
yvetileba 26 qveynis Tanxmobas saWiroebs. me mx-
olod erT maTgans warmovadgen.

da bolos, Tqveni rekomendaciebi da survilebi

ra aris CvenTvis.

amaze martivad gipasuxebT. survilebi _ yvelaferi

saukeTeso, rekomendaciebi _ kvlavac gaagrZeleT
muSaoba.

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 Family Profession
ojaxuri profesia

maT saqmes qveynad

simSvide moaqvs
Their work brings peace
to the country
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saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul ZalebSi xSiria SemTxveva, rodesac samxedro saqmes erTi ojaxis
ramdenime wevri emsaxureba. mkiTxvelis dainteresebasac swored aseTi ojaxebis cxovreba
iwvevs. amitomac gaCnda JurnalSi axali rubrika - `ojaxuri profesia~. pirveli respon-
dentebi Zmebi osefaiSvilebi arian. oTxive saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul ZalebSi sxvadasxva
saqmes akeTebs, Tumca damokidebuleba profesiis mimarT erTnairia _ saqme, romelic unda
giyvardes, iseve, rogorc Seni sxeulis nawili. profesia, romelsac mTeli guliT emsaxure-
bi. ase fiqroben tyupi Zmebi - aleqsandre da giorgi, SuaTana Zma murTazi da yvelaze pata­
ra – irakli.

It is a frequent case when several members of one family serve in the Georgian Armed Forces.
Readers are mostly interested in the way of life of these families. We decided to add a new
section called “Family Portrait” to our magazine. The Osephaishvili brothers are our first
respondents. All four of them are working in different positions in the Georgian Armed
Forces, but their attitudes towards work are similar – you must love your job with body and
soul. You must put your heart in your profession. This is the way the twins Aleksandre and
Giorgi, younger brother Murtaz and the junior Irakli think.

rusudan cimakuriZe
Rusudan Tsimakuridze

am adrian gazafxulze saqarTvelos monaxulebas The Osephaishvili brothers: Alexsandre, Giorgi, Murtaz and
marTlac araferi sjobs. mindoda Zmeb osefaiS- Irakli are employed in different positions in the Georgian Armed
vilebze dasaweri narkvevi zerele, Sablonuri Forces. But all their different positions have one name – Army –
ar gamomsvloda da es mizezi kargad gamoviyene and they are ready to sacrifice their lives.
saimisod, rom guriis erT-erT ulamazes sofels
– dablacixes vwveodi, sadac osefaiSvilebis ded- Early spring is the best season to go sightseeing in Georgia. As I
mama cxovrobs. did not want my story about the four brothers to be ordinary and
dull, I decided to visit the village of Dabaltsikhe in Guria region
aleqsandre, giorgi, murTaz da irakli osefaiS- where the parents of Osepaishvili live. This is the native place
vilebi saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul ZalebSi sxva- where the brothers grew up. No matter what they are doing or are
dasxva saqmes akeTeben. Tumca, am saqmes erTi saxeli at work, they miss their childhood and family house. However,
hqvia da Zmebic mzad arian, Tu qveyanas dasWirda the brothers visit their parents very seldom and they joke – “Ab-
yvelaze Zvirfasi _ sicocxle daTmon misTvis. sence makes the heart grow fonder.”

aq, am garemoSi daibadnen da gaizardnen Zmebi. sadac The Osepaishvilis have never visited the village together since
ar unda iyvnen da ra samuSaosac ar unda asrulebd- their childhood. Last time they all gathered at their junior broth-
nen, yvelaze metad bavSvobis dReebi, mamiseuli sax- er’s wedding the previous year.
li enatrebaT. xSirad ver Camodian da monatrebul
ded-mamas xumrobiT eubnebian – `Tavs rom mogana- Mother
trebT ufro meti sixaruliT dagxvdebiTo~.
We visited the village on Mother’s Day. Ms. Darejan meets chil-
bavSvobis mere, oTxive erTad, sofelSi TiTqmis ar dren with usual calmness. She always tries to have a smiling face
yofila. bolos dedmamiSvilebi, erTi wlis win, um- as the sons visit the village very seldom. So she doesn’t want to
crosi Zmis - iraklis qorwilSi Seikribnen. trouble them with her problems. Ms. Darejan began Mother’s
Day with fussing in the kitchen. She did not have to be alone
deda for a long time. Upon arrival, while awaiting the guests, the four
brothers started doing house work. The same situation was very
axlandeli Camosvla dedis dRes daemTxva. qalba- common during their childhood. As their mother says, they have
toni darejani Svilebs Cveuli simSvidiT egebeba. been independent since they were in the fifth form. This helped
cdilobs yovelTvis momRimari iyos. biWebi isedac her greatly to take care of five men.
iSviaTad Cadian da problemebiT aRar unda rom
datvirTos. “My children were taking care of the family since they had been
in the fifth form. They helped us to prepare for the winter, to do
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since childhood. They rented a plot of land where they grew tea. wyo. marto yofna did xans ar mouwia. CasvlisTa-
My children have always been good so are they now. I believe in nave, stumrebis mosvlamde, oTxive Zma saojaxo
their honesty.” saqmeebis keTebas Seudga. bavSvobaSic ase iyo.
rogorc qalbatoni darejani ambobs, me-5 klasis
She always misses them but Ms. Darejan never protests their sel- Semdeg damoukideblad izrdebodnen. sxvagvarad
dom visits. She knows that her children are serving the country xuTi mamakacis movla gauWirdeboda.
and is proud of that.
`Cemi bavSvebi SromaSi gaizardnen, me-5 kla-
sis Semdeg zrunavdnen ojaxisaTvis, Tundac
Father sazamTrod, Tundac xvna-TesvisTvis. pasuxis­
m­gebloba hqondaT Tavidanve. kargad maxsovs,
Their father cannot hide his excitement when he sees his sons. Cais farTobi aiRes da TviTon uvlidnen, TviTon
He even couldn’t help tears during our conversation. As he says, krefdnen. kargebi iyvnen da axlac kargebi ar-
these are the tears of happiness and pride. He is a lucky man as ian. ase mjera, rom TiToeuli maTgani patiosnad
all four of his sons are on the most responsible and brave duties. movida dRemde.~
Like their mother, he never protested when they chose such a
risky and difficult profession. monatrebis grZnoba arasdros tovebs. biWebis
sofelSi Casvlis wuTidan maT ukan gamomgzavreba-
“I could not get a wink of sleep when they were at war. I prayed ze fiqrobs, Tumca maT iSviaT vizitebs arasdros
to God to have them return safe and sound, I prayed for peace aprotestebs. icis, rom isini qveyanas emsaxurebian
in each family. When the war ended I gave them advice to enter da es Zalian eamayeba.
the Defence Academy. I was confident they could do more for
their motherland.
mama
When they arrive at first I ask how my daughters-in-law and
grandchildren are getting on. I have 6 grandchildren and this gulgrili ver xvdeba biWebis gamoCenas mama. roman
makes me happy. I do not interfere in their relations. Love is the osefaiSvilma verc CvenTan saubris dros Seikava
most important.” cremlebi. rogorc Tavad ambobs, es sixarulis da
siamayis cremlebia, radgan bednieri kacia, rom
Now it’s the right time to introduce the brothers more closely: oTxive Svili yvelaze vaJkacur da sapasuxismgeb-
lo saqmes emsaxureba. dedis msgavsad arc mas dauS-
lia biWebisTvis aseTi rTuli da riskiani samsax-
uris arCeva.
aleqsandre
Aleksandre `roca omSi iyvnen, dRe da Rame ar meZina. RmerTs
vTxovdi, rom Svilebi damibrune da yvelas ojax-
Si mSvidoba da sikeTe iyos meTqi. gancda didi
mqonda. omis Semdeg rom dabrundnen rCeva mive-
ci - radgan am saqmes mokideT xeli daamTavreT
akademia, Tqvens samSoblos aqedan yvelaze kar-
gad emsaxurebiT.

Camosvlisas pirvel rigSi SviliSvilebisa da

rZlebis ambavs vkiTxulob. 6 SviliSvili myavs
da bednieri var. danarCeni araa Cemi saqme. mTa-
varia erTmaneTSi siyvaruli hqondeT~.

mgoni dadga dro Zmebic ufro axlos gagacnoT:

aleqsandre

saqarTvelos damoukideblobis Semdeg Camoyali­

bebul qarTul SenaerTSi igi erT-erTi pirveli
gvardieli iyo. mere iyo omi, sadac tyup ZmasTan er-
Tad ibrZoda. 22 wlis asakSi orTavem gadawyvites, rom
samxedro saqmeze ukeT araferi gamouvidodaT da 1993
wels Tavdacvis erovnul akademiaSi Caabares.

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`gamoviare omi, mZime omi. ris Semdegac gadavw- Alexandre
yvite davrCeniliyavi jarSi. Cemma meTaurmac
didi roli iTamaSa. mirCia oficrobiT ufro He was one of the first guardsmen in the army unit established af-
metsac miaRwev da metsac gaakeTeb Seni qveynisT- ter Georgia gained independence. Then he fought in the war with
viso. omis dros areuli periodi iyo. wavageT, his twin brother. At the age of 22 both of them decided to join the
magram Tu ar ifiqre gamarjvebaze da xeli Cai- military. So they entered the National Academy in 1993.
qnie, araferi gamogiva. mec gadavwyvite da Cavab-
are Tavdacvis akademiaSi, romelic daCqarebuli “I experienced all the difficulties of war. This inspired me to stay
programiT 1994 wels davamTavre.~ in the Armed Forces. My Commander had a great impact on my
decision. He gave me advice to become an officer as I could do
akademiidan saartilerio brigadaSi gaanawiles. more for my country. We had to pass through the hard times of
eqvsi Tve kodoris xeobaSi iyo. mere, oficrebTan the war. We lost but if you do not think about victory and surren-
erTad, aleqseevkis sadazvervo batalionis da der you will not achieve anything. So I decided to enter Defence
kojris specdaniSnulebis brigadis Camoyalibebas Academy, underwent intensive courses and graduated in 1994.”
Caudga saTaveSi.
After graduation, he was sent to the Artillery Brigade. He spent
1998 wels amerikaSi gaemgzavra, sadac armiis sain- six months in the Kodori Gorge. Then he stated to establish
Jinro skolis inJiner- oficerTa ZiriTadi kursi Alekseevka Reconnaissance Battalion and Kojori Special Forces
daamTavra. 2003-2004 wlebSi swavlobda aSS-s saz- Brigade with other officers.
Rvao-qveiTi korpusis universitetSi, sadac sako-
mando-sameTauro da saStabo koleji daamTavra. In 1998 he left for the USA, where he finished Infantry Officer
kvlav amerikis SeerTebul StatebSi damatebiT Basic Course in Army Engineering School. In 2003-2004 he was
gaiara terorizmisa da antiterorizmis kursi. studying at Marine Corps University, Command and Staff Col-
lege. The next step in his educational background in America
2004 wels II qveiTi brigadis Camoyalibeba daavales. was Terrorism and Counter terrorism course.
kidev erTxel didi pasuxismgebloba aiRo Tavze da
Tvlis, rom ndoba gaamarTla. brigadis meTauris In 2004, he was given the task to form the IV Brigade. Once
postidan saxmeleTo jarebis sardlis Tanamde- more he took on huge responsibility and considers that he has
bobaze gadainacvla. dRes, ori qaliSvilis mama, gained everybody’s confidence. He has moved from the position
saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis gaerTianebu- of Brigade Commander to the position of Land Forces Com-
li Stabis ufrosis moadgilea. mander. Currently, the father of two daughters is the Deputy
Chief of Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces.
`roca samxedro xdebi, ar unda ifiqro, rom ra-
Rac samsaxuri iSove. es gansxvavdeba sxva samsax- “When you become a military serviceman, you must not pre-
urisgan, radgan Sens qveyanas emsaxurebi. mTeli sume that you have a job. It is different from other kinds of work
arsebiT unda iyo patrioti, unda giyvardes is, as you serve your country. You have to be a patriot with your
rasac akeTeb. es cota Zneli asaxsnelia, radgan whole body and soul; you have to love what you serve for. This is
yvelas individualuri midgoma aqvs. Cemi midg- somehow difficult to explain as everybody has an individual ap-
oma aseTia _ rogorc sakuTari sxeulis nawilze, proach. My approach is the following – you have to think about
ise unda fiqrobde SeiaraRebul Zalebze.~ the Armed Forces like a part of your body.”

ojaxis wevrebis mokiTxvis Semdeg, yvelani erTad After greeting the family members, all of them started to recollect
biWebis bavSvobas ixsenebs. qalbatoni darejani the boys’ childhood. Ms. Darejan never reminds the grown-up men
pataraobaSi bavSvuri gulwrfelobiT arasworad of their incorrect words pronounced in child sincerity, pranks and
gamoTqmul sityvebs, sicelqesa da patara `da- little “misdeeds”. The brothers don’t like to talk about the origin
naSaulebs~ did kacebs ar axsenebs. Zmebi arc sa- of their nick-names either. Nowadays the Deputy Chief of Joint
kuTari zedmetsaxelebis warmomavlobaze saubro- Staff of Georgian Armed Forces Lieutenant Colonel Alexander
ben. dRes ukve saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis Osepaishvili is known by the nick-name “Bingo”. But he himself
gaerTianebuli Stabis ufrosis moadgiles, vice- doesn’t explain the reason. Thus, as we identified, during that time
polkovnik aleqsandre osefaiSvils zedmetsaxeli he was dreaming of being a partner of an attractive lady Carole
`bingo~-Ti icnoben. Tavad mizezs ar xsnis. Tumca, Bouquet - one of the main characters of popular film “Bingo-Bon-
rogorc gavigeT is im droisTvis popularuli go”. According to the second version, his brothers-in-arm called
filmis `bingo-bongo~-s erT-erTi mTavari gmiris, him the above-mentioned nick-name in the war because of his en-
momxibvleli qalbatonis karol bukes part- ergetic character. He himself recognizes none of the versions. He
niorobaze ocnebobda. meore versiiT ki mas es zed- remembers the schooling period better. He did well at school but
metsaxeli omSi, TanamebrZolebma, misi energiuli was a very naughty boy. His misbehavior was reflected in “tortur-
bunebis gamo Searqves. Tavad arc erT versias ar ing” the girls. Once, he entered the classroom riding a horse. Just
aRiarebs. ufro kargad skolis periodi axsendeba, imagine what situation came up at that moment?

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 giorgi
Giorgi
kargad swavlobda, magram ar iyo advili dasamor-
Cilebeli. misi cudi yofaqceva Tanaklaseli
gogonebis `wvalebaSi~ gamoixateboda. erTxel sak-
laso oTaxSi cxeniT Sesula. warmogidgeniaT, ra
situacia Seiqmneboda?

giorgi

rogorc tyupiscals, giorgis zedmetsaxelad

dRemde `bongo~-s eZaxian. `bongo~ dRes erovnuli
saswavlo centri `krwanisi~-s ufrosis moadg-
ilea. giorgi saqarTvloSi TebervalSi dabrunda.
is 6 Tvis ganmavlobaSi eraySi samSvidobo misias
asrulebda. maiori osefaiSvili 12 welia jarSia.
sxva profesiaze arc ufiqria, cxovrebam moitana
rom samxedro gaxda. rogorc ambobs, guliT uy-
vars jaris cxovrebis yoveli wami da is saqme, ras-
ac akeTebs, radgan yvelaze vaJkacur samsaxurSia.
ori vaJkacis mamas meuRlec samxedro mosamsaxure
yavs.

murTazi

`baqteria~ murTaz osefaiSvilia, mesame Zma. omSi

moxalised wavida, megobrebTan erTad. sxvagvarad
moqcevis ufleba ar hqonda. omSi ZmebTan erTad
yofna ar mouwia. sxva batalionSi ibrZoda. 2001
wels kodoris movlenebis dros naRmze afeTqda.
maSin iq ufros ZmasTan, aleqsandresTan, erTad im-
yofeboda. SemTxvevis adgilidan Zmam da megobarma
gamoiyvanes. maSin aleqsandres Zmis gadasarCenad
Giorgi kilometrebis gavla mouwia. rogorc vice-polk-
ovniki ixsenebs, im dros komunikaciis probleme-
As a twin brother Giorgi is called nick-name “Bongo” till the bis gamo mTavar StabTan kavSiri ar xerxdeboda,
present. Currently “Bongo” is Deputy Head of National Train- ris gamoc operacia 32 saaTiT dagvianda. murTazs
ing Center “Krtsanisi”. Giorgi returned to Georgia in February. fexis amputacia dasWirda. Tumca SeiaraRebuli
He was on a peacekeeping mission in Iraq for six months before Zalebidan wasvla arasdros ufiqria. dRes qal-
that. Major Osepaishvili has been in the Army for 12 years now. vaJis mamaa da vaSlijvarSi specialuri operacie-
He has never thought about taking up a different profession. Life bis dajgufebis operatiuli morigeebis jgufis
made him become a military serviceman. As he says he loves ufrosia.
each minute of army life and the work he serves for as he is in the
bravest work. This father of two sons also has a military spouse.
irakli
Murtaz
samxedro kariera rom airCia, gadamwyveti roli
“Bacteria” – Murtaz Osepaishvili is the third brother. He par- amaSi Zmebis faqtorma iTamaSa. samxedro saqme Zmeb-
ticipated in the war as a volunteer with his friends. He couldn’t ma Seayvares. dRes es cxovreba misTvis yvelafers
behave in a different way. He didn’t have to fight with his broth- niSnavs da sxva profesiaze fiqri verc ki war-
ers in the war. He fought in another battalion. In 2001 he was moudgenia. meored gaaforma kontraqti Tavdacvis
injured by a mine explosion during Kodori events. Then he was saministrosTan da amJamad Tavdacvis erovnul
with his elder brother Alexander. His brother and friend took akademiaSi Carli kursze swavlobs.
him from the place of incident. Alexander had to pass kilometers
in order to save the brother. As the Lieutenant Colonel recalls, `vapireb swavlis gagrZelebas. mepure rom purs
during that time connecting with the main staff wasn’t available acxobs, is xom amiTi sxvebsac apurebs. Cveni
because of communication problems. For this result the opera- profesiac asea, Tu saqmes gavakeTeb sxvebs unda
tion was delayed for 32 hours. Murtaz lost a leg. But he has never gamoadge, marto CemTvis ra fasi eqneba.~

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Murtaz
thought to leave the Armed Forces. At present, he is the father of
a daughter and a son and works as a Head of Vashlijvari Special
Operations Group.

Irakli

Brothers’ factor played the decisive role to choose military ca-

reer. Brothers made him love military service. Today military life
is everything for him and can’t imagine thinking about another
profession. He has concluded a contract with the Ministry of
Defence for the second term and at present he is a student of the
“Charli” course at the National Defence Academy.
“I am going to continue learning. As the baker bakes bread he
feeds other people. Our profession is like this. If you do anything
you have to serve others, otherwise it would have no sense.”
Irakli is the youngest among the brothers. As his mother says, he
is grown up by the boys. At mother’s day he also arrived at the
village. The family house is his weak point and he is very sad that
he can’t come to the village frequently.

In the very first minutes of their arrival, the neighbors and

friends of childhood met the boys. Only a very small number
of young people remain in the village. Everybody who manages
gathers around the table in the Osepaishvili family house. Toasts
are heard till late hours. One can hear so many histories here and
identify some features of the brothers’ character – what frank
and affectionate persons they are.

And we have to leave them. They know that father sees them off
traditionally with a familiar phrase: “Serve your country first, not
irakli ZmebSi yvelaze pataraa da rogorc deda am- only yourselves.”
bobs biWebis gazrdilia. dedis dRes sofelSi isic
Cavida. mamiseuli saxli misi susti wertilis da A very beautiful village in Guria is left behind. The feast is going
guli wydeba, rom sofelSi xSirad ver Cadis. on in the Osepaishvilis large family. The brothers’ work will be
blessed once again. Their work brings peace to entire Georgia.
biWebs CasvlisTanave mSoblebTan erTad me-
zoblebic da bavSvobis megobrebic egebebian. xal-
gazrdoba sofelSi TiTqmis aRar SemorCa. vinc
irakli dedasTan
moaxerxa da moicala yvela osefaiSvilebis ojaxSi
Irakli with mother
gaSlil sufrasTan ikribeba. gvianobamde ismis sa-
dRegrZeloebi. erTi istoria esaa – ras ar mois-
menT aq. Zmebis xasiaTis bevr Tvisebasac dainaxavT
– rogori uSualoni da mosiyvaruleni arian.

wamosvlis droc dgeba. ician, rom mama tradiciu-

lad, ukve bevrjer naTqvami fraziT gamoacilebs:
`marto Tavs ara, pirvel rigSi qveyanas gamoadeq-
iT.~

ukan rCeba guriis ulamazesi sofeli. osefaiS-

vilebis did ojaxSi ki sufra grZeldeba. Zmebs
kidev erTxel daulocaven saqmes, romelsac emsax-
urebian. saqmes, romelsac am sofelsa da sruliad
saqarTveloSi simSvide moaqvs.

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istoria da Tanamedroveoba
Past and Present

"...da me vyviri, afxazeTi Cemi!"

“AND I CRY – ABKHAZIA!”
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pirveli sadesanto operacia
the first landing operation
nino rusaZe,
nino rusaZe, malxaz
malxaz Tofuria
Tofuria
nino rusadze, malkhaz topuria
nino rusadze, malkhaz topuria

1992 wlis ivnisSi afxazeTSi daZabulobam piks swored maSin miaRwia, rodesac separa-
tistebma afxazeTis avtonomiuri respublikis Tanamdebobis pirebze eTnikuri niSniT
da rkinigzaze
zewola da rkinigzaze mimavali
mimavali tvirTebis
tvirTebis - Zarcva daiwyes. afxazeTis avtonomiur re-
spublikaSi saxelisuflo mmarTvelobaze kontrolis aRdgena gaxda 14 agvistos samxe-
dro operaciis dawyebis mizezi. centraluri xelisuflebis SenaerTebi afxazeTSi ori
mxridan Sevidnen - erTi mTavari gziT, xolo meore jgufma desantireba gagra-leseliZis
mimarTulebiT moaxdina. es iyo erTaderTi sazRvao da amasTanave warmatebiT ganxor-
cielebuli desantireba saqarTvelos istoriaSi.

Cven gadavwyviteT gavsaubrebodiT or pirovnebas, romlebic uSualo monawileobas

iRebdnen desantis gadasxmis operaciaSi:

The tensions in Abkhazia reached a dangerous level in June1992, when separatists started prac-
ticing ethnic discrimination against Georgian governmental representatives. Theft of goods
coming to the region through railway became very frequent. In order to stabilize the situa-
tion and restore governmental control over Abkhazia, the Georgian government decided to
start a military operation there on August 14, 1992. Military force was divided into two groups,
one of which went via central way and the other landed in the direction of Gagra-Leselidze
area. This successfully accomplished sea-borne landing was the only such operation in the
history of the Georgian Armed Forces.

We decided to interview two persons who participated in the above mentioned landing opera-
tion.

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 aleqsandre barbaqaZe, Savnabadas batalionis
vice-polkovniki, amJamad rezervis polkovniki:

`sanam gagra–leseliZis desantze daviwyebde sau-

bars, minda ramdenime sityva wina movlenebzec mo-
gaxsenoT da ganvixilo rogor mdgomareobaSi iyo,
im periodSi, Savnabadas batalioni. faqtobrivad,
am batalionis xelaxali Camoyalibeba iwyeboda.
dislocirebulni viyaviT sam adgilas: erTi aseu-
li foTSi idga, erTi - cxinvalis misadgomebTan,
erTi ki – TbilisSi, Savnabadas bazaze, romelic
ZiriTadad axalwveulebis gawvrTniT iyo dakave-
buli.

oseTis movlenebidan erTi Tvec ar iyo gasuli,

rodesac soxumSi Sesvlis politikuri gadawyveti-
leba miiRes. minda giTxraT, rom omSi gamocdili
oficrebis didi nawili afxazeTSi operaciis daw-
yebis winaaRmdegi viyaviT, radgan gvaxsovda, Tu
rogori winaaRmdegoba gagviwia rusis jarma oseT-
Si. Sesabamisad, Cven ukve kargad SegveZlo imis ga-
analizeba, ra sirTuleebTan SeiZleba gvqonoda
aleqsandre barbaqaZe saqme afxazeTis SemTxvevaSi. Cveni winaaRmdegobis
Alexandre Barbakadze miuxedavad, gadawyda operaciis dawyeba da 13 agvi-
stos gagra-leseliZis midamoebSi Cveni desantis
gadasxmis brZaneba miviReT. pirveli amocana rki-
Alexandre Barbakadze, Lieutenant Colonel of `Shavna- nigzis dakaveba iyo, amis Semdeg ki - saqarTvelos
bada~ Battalion in 1992, Currently Reserve Colonel saxelmwifo sazRvris gakontroleba. brZanebis mi-
Rebas ganxilva ar mohyolia. es, gamoucdelobisa
“Before I start talking about Garga-Leselidze sea-borne landing da kadris oficrebis simciris gamo im periodisT-
operation, I would like to draw your attention to the location vis damaxasiaTebeli iyo.
of “Shavnabada” battalion before this event. We were divided
brZanebis miRebisTanave Savnabadas xelmZRvanelo-
into three parts, one company was deployed in Poti, the second
ba SevikribeT; gadavwyviteT, rezervistebis aseu-
in the vicinity of Tskhinvali and the third one was training con- li da kide ori oceuli wagveyvana, radgan maT cxin-
scripts at Shavnabada Base in Tbilisi. valis regionSi Catarebuli samxedro operaciebi-
dan ukve miRebuli hqondaT brZolis gamocdileba
Actually, less than a month passed after the operation in Tskhin- da praqtika. Tumca, gagviCnda erTi didi proble-
vali region, when the government took the political decision to ma - Cven im droisTvis floti ar gvyavda da Sesa-
start action in Sokhumi. I want to stress that most experienced bamisad, ar vicodiT, Tu riTi unda mivsuliyaviT
officers were against the operation as we remembered the re- daniSnulebis adgilamde. pirveli, rac gavakeTeT,
SevkribeT rezervistebi da CavediT Cvens bazaze
sistance of Russian militants in South Ossetia. So we fully ana-
foTSi, sadac Semkrebi punqti gavxseniT, movnaxeT
lyzed what difficulties we might face in the case of Abkhazia. samoqalaqo xomaldebi; Cvenma ramdenime oficerma
But despite our objections, the decision was made and on Au- manqana gayida da aRebuli fuliT ruseTis sazRvao
gust 13 we received orders to carry out a sea-borne landing in Zalebis TanamSromlebi movisyideT, gadavuxadeT
the Gagra-Leselidze area. First we were to take control of the TiTo katarRaSi 40 000 rusuli rubli. ori cali
railway, then – of the Georgian-Russian border. Unfortunately, patara katarRa viqiraveT imisaTvis, rom SegvZle-
in those times we were less experienced and we had a lack of boda teqnikis wayvana. minda giTxraT, rom mTeli
Cadre Officers, so Commanders never discussed and analyzed omis ganmavlobaSi, Cven ZiriTadad SeiaraRebas
saqarTveloSi dislocirebuli rusuli bazebidan
the order: they just started gathering the personnel.
vyidulobdiT. amas xazs imitom vusvam, rom minda
dRevandelma jariskacebma icodnen, Tu ramdenad
Receiving the order we, the leadership of Shavnabada Battal- karg pirobebSi uwevT axla samxedro samsaxuri.
ion, gathered and decided to take a reserve battalion and two
platoons experienced in military operations in Tskhinvali re- samoqalaqo katarRebze mZime teqnikis ayvanis sa-
gion. One big problem arose – there was no fleet in Georgia, so Sualeba ar gvqonda ar gvyavda sakmarisi mcuravi

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saSualebebi. Cveni teqnikidan mxolod ori sabrZo- we did not know how to reach our destination. We went to Poti
lo erTeuli bmp-2 da btr-80 waviyvaneT. rac See- with our reservists, opened an assembly point there and found a
xeba saartilerio da saaviacio mxardaWerebs, ama- civilian ship. Some of our officers sold their cars and rented two
ze laparaki xom saerTod zedmeti iyo; es xdeboda barges for 40,000 rubles from Russian border-guardsmen who
iniciativis doneze. es iyo uprecendento amocana.
were bribe takers. It is notable to say that we usually received
mzaddeboda pirveli sazRvao desanti saqarTve-
los SeiaraRebuli Zalebis istoriaSi. Sebindebi- all the ammunition and equipment from Russian bases located
sas 120 mebrZolma Savnabadas batalionidan da `ka- in Georgia. I am saying this in order to make the Georgian sol-
9~-is 30 mebrZolma kater `kometiT~ da ori barJiT diers realize in what good conditions they are serving now.
gavcureT. Cvenda saubedurod, ar vicodiT ra
gveloda win. Turme roca Cven daniSnulebis adgi- There was no chance to load the ordinary boat with armor-tech-
lamde mivcuravdiT, qarTuli presa da televizia nique, so we took only one APC-80 and IFV-2 (infantry fighting
intensiurad da detalurad aSuqebda am gasaidum- vehicle). As for air or artillery support, it was not feasible at that
loebul operacias - romel ricxvSi saidan gave- moment. It was an unprecedented task, we were preparing for
diT, ra SeiaraRebiT iyo gemebi datvirTuli da ase
the first sea-borne landing in the history of Georgian Armed
Semdeg. amas ise amayad acxadebdnen, TavSi azradac
ar mosvliaT, rom amiT faqtiurad CvenTvis sasi- Forces. It was getting dark when 120 fighters from Shavnabada
kvdilo ganaCeni gamohqondaT. battalion and 30 from “KA-9” unit left Poti by two barges and
a Kometa motor-boat. Unfortunately we did not know that the
gamTeniisas, rodesac Cven napirs mivuaxlovdiT, Georgian media was broadcasting our covert/secret operation
ruseTis armiis sakmaod Zlieri xomaldi `Эсминец» in details, having no idea that by doing so they were passing a
gamoCnda. rusma mesazRvreebma uazro SekiTxvebiT death sentence upon us. When we approached the sea-shore
daaxloebiT erT saaTze meti dagvakargines. swo- at dawn, a Russian torpedo-boat/destroyer appeared. Russian
red drois gawelva iyo maTi mizani. sabolood, le- border-guardsmen asked silly questions and made us waste
seliZis sanapiros dRis Tormet saaTze mivadeqiT,
more than an hour. As a result we reached the shore at twelve
desantirebisTvis Seuferebel dros gadmovjeqiT.
o’clock in the afternoon. Of course it was not the right time
Sesabamisad, mowinaaRmdege mxarem gemebis miaxlo-
vebisTanave gagvixsna cecxli. sakmaod rTul ge- for a sea-borne landing. Separatists saw us and opened fire.
ografiul garemoSi gviwevda brZola, radganac We fought in difficult geographic circumstances, because the
qviSiani, mTlianad moSiSvlebuli sanapiro zoli separatists were hiding on top of a wood-covered alp and we
gvqonda gadasarbeni, xolo mowinaaRmdege tyiT did not see them. So our battalion had to run across the sandy

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beach in order to start contact fight. Battalion spread, crossed dafarul maRlobze Casafrebuliyo. faqtiurad,
the costal line with shooting and reached some buildings where mowinaaRmdeges ver vxedavdiT; Sesabamisad marSiT
an intensive fight started. During the first hour of the combat unda gagvevlo sanapiro da dagvekavebina poziciebi
mowinaaRmdegesTan kontaqturi brZolis dawyebis
4 of our soldiers died and 16 were wounded. We were lucky, as
mizniT. batalioni gaiSala, brZolebiT gavirbineT
the residents of Gagra-Leselidze were Georgians and they took
sanapiro zoli da mivuaxlovdiT dasaxlebul pun-
them to the hospital. The fight lasted till late night. Finally qts, sadac mowinaaRmdegesTan intensiuri brZola
we accomplished our first mission – took control of the rail- gavmarTeT. brZolis pirvelive saaTSi dagveWra
way. But we still had another task to do, so the same day local 16 da dagveRupa 4 kaci. aranairi samedicino saSua-
population showed us the way to the Georgian-Russian border leba ar gagvaCnda; vukavSirdebodiT adgilobriv
and we left. After a few shots the separatists left their positions mosaxleobas; maT daWrilebi leseliZis saavadm-
and moved to Russia. The battalion occupied the border and yofoSi gadahyavdaT. amaSic gagvimarTla, radgan,
raised the Georgian flag. Our next task was to clean the alp gagra-leseliZis adgilobrivi mosaxleoba Ziri-
Tadad qarTvelebiT iyo dasaxlebuli.
that controls the Leselidze area. If you look at the map, you will
see that there is a mountain washed by the sea. This of course brZola gvian Ramemde grZeldeboda. saboloo
complicated the combat circumstances because there was no jamSi pirveli amocana SevasruleT - davikaveT
possibility to use the APC-80 or IFV-2. Certainly we needed rkinigza. magram Sesasrulebeli gvrCeboda meore
more force to occupy the mountain. So I contacted the leader- davaleba... imave dRes, adgilobrivi mosaxleobis
ship of the National Guard – General Jemal Chumburidze and CvenebiT saqarTvelos saxelmwifo sazRvrisken
reported that the mission was accomplished and asked him to gaveSureT. gavxseniT cecxli; mowinaaRmdege male-
send additional force in order to maintain the positions. ve gaiqca; gadavida ruseTisken. davikaveT ruseT-
saqarTvelos sazRvari, sadac saqarTvelos dro-
Sa avRmarTeT. amis Semdeg Cven aucileblad unda
Two choppers gave us fire support at dawn so the mountain
gagvewminda mTa, romelic simaRlidan leseliZes
was cleaned. The first task was accomplished – we prepared the akontrolebda. Tu ruqaze naxavT, sazRvao zoli
beachhead, occupied the border. Next day Georgian military tyian mTas emijneba, rac saomar situacias kidev
units started to come step by step. We called our company from ufro arTulebs. swored amitom, iq teqnikas ukve
Poti, special units of the National Guard, Khashuri battalion, veRar gamoviyenebdiT. mTis dasakaveblad Cven, ra

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Tqma unda, damatebiTi Zalebi gvWirdeboda. da- Avaza and Telavi battalions arrived as well. In the next few days
vukavSirdi gvardiis xelmZRvanelobas - general we cleaned the territory, found TNT cache. There was no lorry
jemal WumburiZes da movaxsene, rom brZaneba Se- to transport this substance, so we decided to leave our soldier
srulebuli iyo avuxseni, rom gviTavdeboda sabr-
there in order to protect the storage. We deployed our troops
Zolo resursi, damatebiTi Zalebis gareSe gagvi-
in the building of a boarding school, then contacted our next
Wirdeboda poziciebis SenarCuneba da mogviwevda
TavdacviT poziciaSi Cadgoma. point – Gagra, where “Mkhedrioni” units were expecting us.
In the following five days Gagra was peacefully taken by us.
ukve gamTenisaas orma sabrZolo vertmfrenma The separatists left the city as it was an unsafe place for them.
gagvikeTa mxardaWera da mxolod maTi sacecx- Our troops reached the borders of Gagra-Kolkhida. There were
le mxardaWeris Semdeg gaxda SesaZlebeli mTis some sabotage acts from the separatists but we managed to lo-
mTlianad gawmenda. meore dRes ukve nel-nela calize them.
daiwyo sabrZolo nawilebis Semosvla. pirve-
li operacia Sesrulebuli iyo anu movamzadeT
The Gagra operation complicated our task because we had to
placdarmi, davikaveT sazRvari; daviwyeT Zale-
bis Sekreba, gamoviZaxeT Savnabadas meore aseuli
control a larger territory. Our battalions were forced to take
foTidan, Camovida gvardiis specrazmi, xaSuris positions on Mamdisshkha Mountain. Mamdisshkha is the alp
batalioni, imedis batalioni, qarTvel Sevarden- that controls the road to the Ritsa lake. This was the road used
Ta legioni, 28–e batalioni, avaza da Telavis ba- by South-Caucasian militants to enter Georgia in order to sup-
talioni. momdeno dReebSi gavwmindeT mTlianad port separatists. So we had to block the way.
mTeli teritoria; aRmovaCineT trotilis didi
sawyobi, Tumca am nivTierebis gadmosazidad ar The strategy mandated that we occupy Pitsunda, but we did not
gvyavda manqanebi, amitomac ubralod dacva da- have enough manpower to do it. It is noteworthy that when I
vayeneT nivTierebis gamoyenebis Tavidan acile-
mention battalion, actually this was either a platoon or maxi-
bis mizniT. sanapiro zolidan gaviyvaneT piradi
Semadgenloba, ganvaTavseT skola-internatis mum a company-size unit, but not a real battalion.
SenobaSi. Semdeg davukavSirdiT Cven Semdgom
punqt gagras, sadac mxedrioni idga. piradi Se- The experience that we gained in the Tskhinvali region was cru-
madgenlobis simciris gamo, isini samxedro ope- cial. This experience ensured our success.
racias ver iwyebdnen da Cvens gagraSi Sesvlas
elodnen. daaxloebiT xuTi dRis Semdeg gagra Alexandre Mindadze, participated in the August 13 oper-
ubrZolvelad davikaveT, radgan mowinaaRmdegem ation as a volunteer in the `Shavnabada~ battalion. He was just
Tavad datova qalaqi, rogorc maTTvis ara sai-
a student of a medical university. Now he is a Doctor of Medicine
medo punqti. gavediT gagris sazRvrebTan–ko-
and works at a paediatric clinic as a neurologist.
lxidasTan. amis Semdeg, mowinaaRmdegis mxridan
patara diversiuli gamoxtomebi daiwyo, romlis
lokalizebasac vaxerxebdiT. isini ZiriTadad On August 13, we left Poti by two barges loaded with APC-80,
gamTeniisas gvesxmodnen Tavs. IFV-2 and with some of our fighters. After some time, a Kometa
motor-boat picked up the rest of the personnel and followed us.
ra Tqma unda, gagris dakavebam amocana gagvirTu- On our way to Gagra a Russian torpedo-boat/destroyer stopped
la, radgan ufro didi teritoriis gakontorle- us. To their question as to where we were going, we answered
ba dagvevala... iZulebuli gavxdiT, mamdisSxaze that we had some exercise. It was pretty strange, but they let us
piradi Semadgenloba agveyvana. mamdisSxa - es aris
go. Our battalion reached the coast line of Gantiadi at twelve
mTa, romelic riwis tbisken mimaval gzas akonto-
rolebs anu es iyo marSuti, saidanac Crdilo-ka- o’clock. When the separatists saw us they opened fire and the
vkasieli boevikebi gadmodiodnen mowinaaRmdege captain of the Kometa was wounded. They were probably de-
mxaris dasaxmareblad. daviwyeT teritoriis Ca- ployed on an alp, and therefore when we reached the beach the
ketva. separatists stopped fire.

samxedro strategiiT aucilebeli iyo biWvin- The beach was crowded with Russian tourists, a common situ-
Tis dakavebac. magram Cven Zalebi ar gvyofnida. ation at this summer resort. They thought that we were filming
imdroindel batalions mxolod saxeli erqva ba- some movie and did not take this seriously. Of course we did
talionis, sinamdvileSi ki oceuli iyo, maqsimum
not mean to make them panic.
aseuli da ara batalioni.

is rac Cven oseTSi gaviareT, gadamwyveti aRmoCn- As the battalion landed far from the planned area, we decided
da. swored am gamocdilebam ganapiroba Cveni war- to split into groups, one unit under the leadership of Akia Bar-
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 aleqsandre mindaZe, 1992 wlis 14 agvistos sa-
desanto operaciaSi monawileoba miiRo rogorc
Savnabadas batalionis moxalisem. maSin is same-
dicino institutis studenti iyo. amJamad ki me-
dicinis mecnierebaTa doqtoria da Tssu pedia-
triul klinikaSi nevrologad muSaobs:

`13 agvistos, saRamos, foTidan barJaTi gadmo-

vediT, romelic datvirTuli iyo TiTo btr-80
da bmp-2-iT, aseve Cveni piradi Semadgenlobis ga-
rkveuli nawiliT. cota mogvianebiT ki ZiriTadi
Zalebi kater `kometas~ gavyeviT. gzaSi rusma me-
sazRvreebma gagvaCeres, romlebmac gamogvkiTxes
Tu sad mivdiodiT. Cven vupasuxeT, rom samxedro
swavleba gvqonda. Cvenda gasakvirad dagvijeres
da uproblemod gagvatares. afxazeTis sanapiro
zols daba ganTiadis midamoebSi sadRac dRis 12
saaTisTvis mivuaxlovdiT. sanapiro zolamde ori-
sami kilometric gvaklda, rodesac mowinaaRmdege
mxarem cecxli gagvixsna. savaraudod, mowinaaRm-
dege mxare mTebidan isroda, radgan napirTan mia-
xloebisas isini veRar gvxedavdnen. Sesabamisad
cecxli Sewyda. swored am srolisas daiWra kater
`kometa~-s kapitani. sezoni iyo da napirze bevri
damsvenebeli gaxldaT, ZiriTadad - rusi turis-
tebi. maT ver aRiqves mdgomareobis seriozuloba
da gadawyvites, rom filmis gadaReba midioda. ra
Tqma unda, Cvenc maTSi SiSi ar dagviTesavs.
aleqsandre mindaZe desantirebis Semdeg, romlis cdomilebac teri-
Alexandre Mindadze toriulad Zalian didi iyo (Cven gadajdomas le-
seliZis midamoebSi vgegmavdiT), miviReT gadawyve-
tileba or jgufad gavyofiliyaviT da saxelmwifo
sazRvari dagvefiqsirebina. pirveli jgufi akia
railway, the other team under the command of Koba Kobaladze barbaqaZis xelmZRvanelobiT da btr 80-iT sanapi-
took IFV-2 and moved to the central road. So the first group rosa da rkinigzas gahyva, xolo meore jgufi, ba-
took the railway, but unfortunately our friend Koka Kldiashvili ton koba kobalaZis meTaurobiT da bmp-2-iT gzas
gauyva. pirvelma jgufma, romelsac rkinigzis sad-
died in the fight. As for the second group, they got ambushed:
gurTan mcire Setakebebisas Cveni megobari koka
Koba Kobaladze and Misha Sadunishvili were wounded, and kldiaSvili daeRupa, saqarTvelo-ruseTis sazR-
Lasha Dondua and Sandro Vacheishvili were killed. We ar- vars maleve miaRwia. rac Seexeba meore jgufs - isi-
ranged to break the ambush because the separatist force was ni CasafrebaSi mohyvnen. swored aq daiWrnen koba
inexperienced and opened fire early, before our whole team got kobalaZe da mixeil saduniSvili, daiRupnen laSa
into the ambushed area. Our experienced reservists arranged to dondua da sandro vaCeiSvili. Casafrebis garRveva
break the ambush. After all this our groups met in Leselidze mowinaaRmdegis gamoucdelobis gamo movaxerxeT,
and peacefully took control of Gagra. radgan maT cecxli adre gagvixsnes anu Casafre-
bul teritoriaze mTliani jgufis Sesvlamde. swo-
red aman gadawyvita im epizodis bedi. gamocdilma
rezervistebma srolis traeqtoriis mixedviT ga-
xsnes cecxli da Sesabamisad Casafreba gaarRvies.
yovelive amis Semdeg, orive jgufi leseliZeSi ga-
verTiandiT da iqidan movaxdineT gagris mSvido-
biani dakaveba.

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"krwanisis veli da
Tebervali..."
Krtsanisi Valley and
February…

1921 wels kojorTan daRupuli meomrebis xsovnis obeliski

MEMORIAL OF SOLDIERS FALLEN NEAR KOJORI IN 1921 89
February 1921 is one of the most tragic periods 1921 wlis Tebervali saqarTvelos istoriis
in Georgia’s history. The Russian 11th army in- erTi yvelaze tragikuli furcelia. saxelm-
vasion and occupation was terrible news for wifoebadakarguli qveynisTvis, romelmac
damoukidebloba sami wlis win aRidgina,
the country: Georgia lost the independence
ruseTis meTerTmete armiis Semosvla da
it had obtained only three years before. Af-
qveynis okupacia mZime gamodga. mas Semdeg,
ter this our country had to live under an- kidev samocdaaTi wlis ganmavlobaSi uxde-
other state’s directions for seventy years. boda Cvens qveyanas sxva saxelmwifos kar-
The declaration of independence in 1989 and naxiT cxovreba. damoukideblobis gamocxa-
further years allowed us to get acquainted debam 1990 wels da Semdgomma wlebma saSu-
with emigrant press and several books pub- aleba mogvces gavcnobodiT emigrantul
lished in Paris. But most of them are still presas da parizSi gamocemul ramdenime
unknown in Georgia, even though it is neces- saintereso wigns. magram maTi didi nawili
qarTveli mkiTxvelisaTvis jerac ucnobia.
sary for a lot of people to know about that
arada, saWiro rom, Cveni istoriis Savbneli
awful period of Georgian history. Unfortu-
furceli bevrma icodes, rom kidev ar da-
nately, some Georgians were among the sup- vuSvaT sabediswero Secdomebi. 1921 welsac
porters of the Red Army in 1921. xom wiTel armias, samwuxarod, qarTvelTa
Sorisac hyavda momxreebi.
Now I want to offer two memoirs published
in the collection “The 60th Anniversary of amjerad gTavazobT or mogonebas, romelic
Conquest”. It was published in Paris by the ed- gamoqveynda krebulSi `dapyrobis 60 wlisTa-
itorial board including Gulnara Uratadze, vi.~ igi 1981 wels, parizSi gamosca saredaq-
cio kolegiam gulnara urataZis, levan faR-
Levan Pagava and Giorgi Tsereteli in 1981.
avas da giorgi wereTlis SemadgenlobiT:

Valiko Chubinidze (1891-1988) – participant of the 1924 valiko CubiniZe (1891-1988) - 1924 wlis ajanyebis
rebellion; colleague of Georgian Embassy in France. monawile, safrangeTSi saqarTvelos saelCos Tana-
mSromeli, sdmp parizis organizaciis Tavmjdomare,
“When I remember February 1921, I am sad, but at the same partiis sazRvargareTuli biuros wevri da Semdgom
time happy. Words can’t explain my feelings: my country being Tavmjdomare:
conquered, a lot of my brothers-in-arms deceased, then Siberia,
military executions in 1924 and here abroad we filled Leuville `roca vigoneb 1921 wlis Tebervals, var ubeduric
da bednieric. sityvebi uZluria gadmovce Cemi ganc-
Brothers Cemetery with Georgians corpses. I am happy to have
da: Cemi qveynis dapyroba, bevri, bevradbevri Tana-
been the witness of the military execution of the Georgian trai- mebrZoli maSin Cemgan daRupuli, Semdeg cimbiri,…
tors who lead the Russian Red Army. Here are their names, daxvretebi 1924 welSi da aq – ucxoeTSi – gavamseT
members of “Shulaveri Government”: Fillip Makharadze, Ma- lovilis ZmaTa sasaflao. bednieri var imiTi, rom
mia Orakhelashvili, Budu Mdivani, Lado Dumbadze, Shalva qarTvel moRalateebs, vinc ruseTis wiTel arm-
Eliava, Misha Okujava, Sasha Gegechkori and Kvirkvelia. All ias SemouZRvnen, imaT daxvretas moveswari. ai, maTi
of them, with the exception of Fillip Makharadze, were military saxelebi, `Sulaveris mTavrobis~ wevrebi: filipe
executed during 1936-37. Dgebuadze was exiled to Uzbekistan maxaraZe, mamia oraxelaSvili, budu mdivani, lado
dumbaZe, Salva eliava, miSa okujava, saSa gegeWkori
in 1929 where he died. Misha Gegechkori committed suicide
da kvirkvelia. eseni daxvrites, garda filipe max-
in 1929.
araZisa 1936-37 wlebSi. dgebuaZe gadaasaxles 1929
wels uzbekistanSi da iq gardaicvala. miSa gegeWko-
On February 17, we were informed that the government dis- rma xom Tavi moikla 1922 welSi...
missed General Odishelidze and instead of him General Giorgi
Kvinitadze was appointed. This news made us glad as General 17 Tebervals gavigeT, rom mTavrobam gadaayena gen-
Kvinitadze was commander-in-chief in 1920 during the war erali odiSeliZe da mis magivrad daniSna generali
against Russia, as if against Azerbaijan, but Azerbaijan couldn’t giorgi kvinitaZe. CvenSi am sasixarulo ambavma six-
dare wage war against us. aruli gamoiwvia, radganac generali kvinitaZe iyo
mTavarsardlad 1920 wels, roca omi iyo ruseTTan,
viTom azerbaijanTan, magram azerbaijani Cven oms
On February 19 the first Georgian Regiment under the com-
ver gagvibedavda.
mand of Colonel Gogelashvili and the Imereti Third Guard un- 19 Tebervals, pirvelma qarTulma polkma, polk-
der the command of Tripon Labadze, under command of the ovnik gogelaSvilis meTaurobiT da mesame imere-
chairman of the Main Staff V. Jugeli, Alexander Dgebuadze and Tis gvardia trifon labaZis meTaurobiT, mTavari
General Giorgi Mazniashvili defeated the enemy heavily. We Stabis Tavnjdomare v. juRelis, aleqsandre dge-

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buaZis da general giorgi mazniaSvilis meTaurobiT took 1800 soldiers prisoners, captured four guns, other kinds of
mteri sastikad davamarcxeT. tyved Cagvivarda 1800 weapons and deciphered secret data.
jariskaci, oTxi zarbazani, didZali sxva iaraRi da
gaSifruli saidumlo sabuTebi.
On October 16, Chiatura Guard Unit under the command of
Captain Akvsenti Kurtsikidze added us. New enemy forces at-
16 Tebervals WiaTuris sax. Gvardiis erTi gundi
dagvemata, kapitan aqvsenti qurcikiZis meTaurobiT. tacked us from the side of Qorogli Fortress, where an intense
mtris axalma Zalebma Tavi dagviara qoroRlis cix- artillery battle was underway. Our guns, under the command of
is gverdidan da Seiqna Zlieri saartilerio dueli. Colonel Kargareteli, beat the enemy artillery. The enemy side
Cvenma zarbaznebma, polkovnik kargareTelis meTau- placed tanks and Rostov Artillery Division on the battle filed.
robiT mtris artileria CaaCuma. mterma brZolis Volunteer students also joined us. Entire Tbilisi supported us…
velze gadmoyvana tankebi da rostovis saartile- On February 17, I met two Younker units at Yerevan Square
rio divizia. Cvenc dagvemata moxalise studentebi.
(presently Freedom Square – editor) lead by Colonel Chkeidze
mTeli Tbilisi fexze dadga. . .
to military music. People were throwing flowers and shouted:
17 Tebervals erevnis moedanze (axla Tavisuflebis Long live Our Free Georgia, its authority – Georgian Govern-
moedani.red.) Sevxvdi iunkerTa or gunds, mouZ- ment, Long Live Young Military School!
Roda polk. CxeiZe samxedro musikiT. mTeli xalxi
yvavilebs esrodaT da ismoda: gaumarjos Cvens Tav- Younkers, Imereti Third Guard and Batumi Guard, Command-
isufal saqarTvelos, mis meTaurobas-saqarTvelos er of legion servicemen Colonel Kvashali occupied a 25 km
mTavrobas, gaumarjos Cvens axalgazrda samxedro Front: Tabakhmela-Kojori-Kumisi Heights. On February 18, the
skola!.. enemy opened artillery fire; our side repelled the enemy and
put them down. The front commander General Andronikashvili
iunkrebma, mesame imereTis sax. gvardiam da baTumis
sax. gvardiam, aTaseulis meTauri polk. kvaSali, da- ordered the Commander of Tbilisi Emergency Legion Service-
vikaveT 25 kilometris fronti-tabaxmela-kojor- men Colonel Tsomaia to attack. Colonel Tsomaia allocated the
kumisis simaRleebi. 18 Tebervals mteri aCaRebs first unit under the command of Iliko Jugeli and followed the
artileriis cecxls, Cvenebma upasuxes da CaaCumes. enemy. I. Jugeli reached the lake to the right side and attacked

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the enemy cavalry. At this point, Jugeli gave a battle and hurled frontis ufrosma generalma andronikaSvilma
the enemy back. But the enemy’s military legion of students Tbilisis sagangebo aTaseulis ufross polk. co-
hit from the left side; I. Jugeli was wounded in the leg and the maias ubrZana gadasuliyo Setevaze. polk. comaiam
gamoyo pirveli gundi iliko juRelis meTaurobiT
whole group was taken hostage. On February 19, 20, 21 and
da mters daedevna. i.juRelma miaRwia tbis marjvniT
22 we gained victory everywhere. On February 23 the enemy
da SeeCexa mtris cxenosan jars. aq, juRelma misca
aviation bombed our large arsenal and Vaziani Gorge. Panic brZola da gareka mteri, magram marcxniT movida
spread among commands. General Mazniashvili and General mtris samxedro kursantebis aTaseuli, i. juReli
Andronikashvili felt themselves courageous. daiWra fexSi da mTeli gundi tyved Cavarda. 19, 20, 21
da 22-s Cven yvelgan gamarjvebuli viyaviT. 23 Teber-
On February 24, we crossed the railway to fetch firewood. Al- vals mtris aviaciam dabomba Cveni didi arsenali da
peza Goguadze was ambushing at that location with amour. vazianis xeoba. emCneoda panika mTavarsardlobaSi.
It was one o’clock at night; Goguadze drove the enemy away. Ggenerali mazniaSvili da generali andronikaSvili
magrad iyvnen.
The enemy attacked us in the centre; Colonel Kvashali and six
guardians were killed. Kvashali’s position was taken over by
24 Tebervals Cven gadavediT rkinigzis liandagze
Senior Captain of First Unit Dolidze. The enemy was roundly SeSis mosatanaT. aq idga alfeza goguaZe javSnos-
defeated. niT. Ramis pirveli saaTia, goguaZem mteri gandevna.
Cveni aTaseuli, imereTis mesame gvardia da baTumis
Commander-in-chief Giorgi Kvinitadze came out, opened the sax. gvardia, kvaSalis meTaurobiT, marjvniT meore
maps in the camp. Generals Mazniashvili, Andronikashvili gundi iunkrebis. mterma centrSi moitana ieriSi,
and Zakariadze, Colonel Chkheidze, V. Jugeli were here. It mogvikles polk. kvaSali da eqvsi gvardieli, kvaSa-
was 11 o’clock in the morning, February 24. On February 25, lis adgili daikava pirveli gundis ufrosma kapi-
tanma doliZem. mteri sastikad damarcxda.
at 4 o’clock we started attacking from Kojori-Shindisi-Kororlo
Fortress. At 11 o’clock in the evening we received orders from
amovida mTavarsardali giorgi kvinitaZe, karavSi
the front commander: “Retreat to Mtskheta, take positions in gaSala karta. aq arian generlebi mazniaSvili, an-
orderly manner, we are leaving Tbilisi.” dronikaSvili da zaqariaZe, polk. CxeiZe, v. juReli.
es aris 24 Tebervlis 11 saaTi dilis. 25 diliT, oTx
We retreated peacefully and reached the station at midnight, saaTze viwyebT Setevas: kojori-Sindisi-qororlos
where an armored unit under the command of Alpeza Gogua- cixe vazianidan. saRamos 11 saaTze modis frontis
dze was located. Here we met Noe Zhordania; heard Alpeza’s ufrosis brZaneba: `daixieT mwyobrad mcxeTaSi unda
loud exclamation: “Why do you want us to leave, Mr Noe!” gavmagrdeT, Tbiliss vtovebT~.
“We are getting into danger, the enemy is already in Navtlugi,”
vixevT wynarad. naSuaRamevs varT sadgurSi, sadac
was Noe Zhordania’s answer. I saw two coaches tied to armor
alfeza goguaZes javSnosani dgas. aq vxedav noe Jor-
where Noe Zhordania got in. After their departure our train- danias. gavigone alfezas xmamaRali SeZaxili~ `ratom
load, Batumi and Imereti Third Guard Legion left the area. gviSvebT, batono noe!~ `xifaTss vvardebiT, mteri
ukve navTluRSia,~ upasuxebs noe Jordania. davinaxe,
In Gori I received orders to follow Imereti Guard Third Legion rom ori vagoni moubes javSnosans, romelSic Cajda
in the direction of Sachkhere. The enemy had crossed the Mam- noe Jordania. Cveni eSeloni, baTumis da imereTis me-
isoni Pass. I called in the government coach to farewell and saw same gvardiis aTaseulebi, gavida mas Semdeg.
Mr. Noe Zhordania – somehow very tired and sad. At this time
General Kvionitadze came and stated: “I have asked the mem- gorSi me miviRe brZaneba gavyolodi imereTis sax.
gvardiis mesame aTaseuls saCxerisaken, mters gad-
bers of the Main Staff not to meddle with the Guard”. The real-
moulaxavs mamisonis uReltexili. Seviare mTavro-
ity was the following: Vladimer Jibladze heard that the trenches bis vagonSi, rom gamovmSvidobebodi. vnaxe batoni
were not ready on Surami Pass and Tsipi Pass. So he told this noe Jordania. erTob daRlili da mowyenili. am
to general Kvinitadze. In response, Noe Zhordania gave order dros movida gen. kvinitaZe, romelmac ganucxada: `me
to revoke all rights for Vladimer Jibladze. xom gTxoveT, rom nu erevian mTavari Stabis wevrebi
gvardiis saqmeebSiTqo.~ saqme ase yofila: vladi-
Evgeni Gegechkori, having returned from Europe, joined us mer jiblaZes gaugia, rom suramis uReltexilze da
in Khashuri. I remember and never forget when we heard that wifis uReltexilze sangrebi ar yofila momzadebu-
there was no assistance from Europe. Alexander Dgebuadze li da es mas uTqvams gen. kvinitaZisTvis. mis sapasux-
od, noe Jordaniam gasca brZaneba aexados yovelive
said to Mr. Evgeni: “Let’s see how England and Lloyd George
ufleba vladimer jiblaZeso.
benefit from this unfair policy!”
xaSurSi mogviswro evgeni gegeWkorma, evropidan
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roca gavigeT evropidan araferi daxmareba ar ari- Kristefore Imnaishvili
so, aleqsandre dgebuaZem baton evgenis miaxala:
`navxoT ras isargeblebs inglisi da loid jorji Red Russia’s Invasion
aseTi umsgavso politikiTo!~
(Recollections)

qristefore imnaiSvili
On February 11-12, 1921, dark clouds coming from the North
wiTeli ruseTi Tavs dagvesxa wrapped up in red color crossed the borders of our beloved
(mogonebebebidan) country. The Red Army treacherously attacked us and drowned
our national identity in blood, invading and conquering our
`1921 wlis 11-12 Tebervals, CrdiloeTidan wamo- motherland. February 25 is the day of mourning for the Geor-
sulma Savma Rrubelam, wiTel ferSi gaxveulma, Cve- gian nation.
ni Zvirfasi samSoblo gadmolaxa. veragulad Tavs
dagvesxa, sisxlSi CaaxrCo Cveni erovnuli meoba.
Moscow appointed the Georgian traitors to the government
ruseTis wiTelma armiam daipyro Cveni qveyana. 25
Tebervali aris qarTveli eris glovis dRe. and appointed Kote Tsintsadze as Chairman of the Special Se-
moskovma Seadgina moRalate qarTvelebisagan mTav- curity Committee (Cheka) who was surrounded by the Russian
roba da daniSna `gruzCekis~ TavmJdomared kote and Armenian executioners. The Georgian Soviet Government
cincaZe, romelsac gverdSi amouyena rusi da somexi announced amnesty, saying that they won’t take revenge on the
jalaTebi. saqarTvelos sabWoTa xelisuflebam past. We valued the price of amnesty and in the evening we
gamosca amnistia, rom warsulze surs ar iZieben. sheltered in the houses of unobserved friends.
Cven kargad vicodiT am amnistiis fasi da saRamoo-
biT Tavs vafarebdiT SeumCnevel amxanagebSi.
After a week of Georgia’s invasion, they organized a large meet-
saqarTvelos dapyrobis erTi kviris Semdeg moiev- ing in Lanchkhuti where betrayer Philipe Makharadze delivered
ies lanCxuTSi didi mitingi, sadac gamovida moRal- a speech. The meeting was arranged on Noe Jordania Square.
ate filipe maxaraZe. mitingi moawyves noe Jordanias We were besieged by armed Communists. Kosandile Tsintsadze
moedanze. Cven ki alya gvqonda Semortymuli Sei- opened the meeting and Philipe Makharazde appeared on
ararebuli komunistebiT. mitingi gaxsna kosandile the platform. The crowd began to shout and whistle: “Traitor
cincaZem da tribunaze adis f. maxaraZe. mTelma dam- Makharadze, how do you dare to appear at the meeting, you
swre xalxma yviriliT da stveniT SesZaxa: moRalate led the Russian army in our country, destroyed our national
maxaraZe, rogor bedav tribunaze gamosvlas, ru- identity, the whole nation is mourning old or young, mothers
sis jars SemouZexiT, mospeT Cveni erovnuli meoba,
mourn the loss of their sons fallen on the battlefield. Down
mTeli eri SavebSia gaxveuli, glovobs didi da pa-
tara, dedebi stirian TavianT Svilebs, romlebic with traitor Makharadze! Withdraw the Russian Army and then
gmirulad daecen brZolis velze. Zirs moRalate dare to appear on the platform.” People did not let him to de-
maxaraZe! gaiyvaneT rusis jari da Semdeg gamodi liver a speech. They could not even pass a resolution. After this
tribunazeo. sityvis neba ar misca xalxma, veravi- the member of our Constituent Assembly, Nikifore Imnaishvili
Tari rezolucia ver gamoitanes. ase, rom bolSe- wanted to address the people but they didn’t let him on the plat-
vikebi saxtad darCnen. Semdeg tribunaze gadis Cveni form. He still made his way by force and shouted: “Whole Geor-
damfuZnebeli krebis wevri nikifore imnaiSvili. mas gia is mourning today; you have killed the national identity of
ar uSveben tribunaze, magram ZaliT gadis da SesZaxa Georgian people with the Russian bayonets, withdraw the Rus-
moRalateebs: `DdRes saqarTvelo glovobs, rusis
sian forces and then appear in front of the public.” Everyone
xiStebiT rom mouspeT ers misi meoba, gaiyvaneT ru-
sis jari da Semdeg gamodiT tribunazeo!~ Teli dam- met Nikifore with ovations and applause and shouted: “Long
swre xalxi nikifores didi ovaciebiTa da taSiT Sex- live Noe Jordania and our national government!” They started
vda da erTxmad SesZaxa: `gaumarjos noe Jordanias da to sing the national anthem: “Glory to our motherland!”
Cvens erovnul mTavrobaso.~ da erTxmad SemosZaxes
Cveni erovnuli himni `dideba Cvensa samSoblos.~ People were very ambiguous about the new circumstances and
about Georgia’s future fate. The broad mass of people thought
Tu ra moeloda saqarTvelos axali mdgomareobis Se- that they could find common language with the “Bolsheviks”
qmnis gamo, amaze xalxis azri metad Wreli iyo. farTe
and this incursion would not be like any other cases. Gener-
masaSi bevri fiqrobda, rom bolos da bolos `bol-
ally, before the invasion Bolshevik organizations were already
SevikebTan~ saerTo ena moinaxeboda da es saqarT-
velos dapyroba ar gadaiqceoda iseT dapyrobad, liquidated in Guria region. They had no representatives in
rogorc es saerTod xdeba aseT SemTxvevaSi. saer- many communities to setup the revolution committee and they
Tod guriaSi saqarTvelos dapyrobis win bolSevike- brought people from other villages. Generally no serious event
bis organizaciebi ganadgurebulni iyvnen. ar yavdaT happened in Guria that might cause the repressions from the

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government. But naturally there were some exceptions. Those pirebi mraval TemebSi, rom revkomi SeedginaT da sx-
persons whom Bolsheviks considered irreconcilable enemies or vadasxva soflebidan moyavdaT. saerTod guriaSi ar
those who participated in repressions against Bolsheviks during momxdara iseTi rame, rom xelisuflebis represiebi
gamoewvia. rasakvirvelia, iyo bevri gamonaklisi.
the years of independence were in a very bad situation.
Zalian cud mdgomareobaSio iyo is xalxi, visac
bolSevikebi icnobdnen rogorc Seurigebel mters,
On April 29 of 1921, at about 10 o’clock I heard knocking on an vinc damoukideblobis dros monawileoba miiRo
the door. When the door was opened, armed Bolsheviks entered bolSevikebis wiinaaRmdeg represiebSi.
and told me that I was arrested. When I asked what was wrong
as far as they had announced the amnesty they replied: “You 1921 wlis 29 aprils... iyo saRamos 10 saaTi, rom kar-
don’t want to live in peace; you threw a bomb to Sasha Gegech- ebze araxuneben. gaaRes kari. Semovidnen SeiaraRe-
kori. I was arrested at 10 o’clock and the bomb exploded at 11 buli bolSevikebi da miTxres datusaRebuli xaro.
raSia saqme? amnistia gamouSviT da matusaRebT
o’clock in Kutaisi. So this was an artificially fabricated case
Tqva. mipasuxes: Tqven ar isvenebT, quTaisSi saSa
needed for repressions… On April 30 I was taken to Lanchkhuti gegeWkors bombi esroleTo. me damiWires Ramis aT
Revolution Committee where I found all leaders detained. saaTze da bombi gavarda quTaisSi Ramis TerTmeT
saaTze. ase, rom es xelovnurad moawyves, rom amiT
In the morning of May 1, standing in line, we were taken to gamoewviaT represiebi... 30 aprils diliT mimiyvanes
Ozurgeti via Nasakirali way… We reached the Ozurgeti prison lanCxuTis revkomis binaze, iq damxvda yvela mowi-
at 3 o’clock where all distinguished persons living in Guria re- nave pirebi datusaRebuli...
gion were arrested. Most of them were transferred to military
pirvel maiss diliT, aRdgoma dRes, Cagvayenes rig-
barracks as there were not enough places in the prison. The
Si da nasakiralis gziT gagviZaxes ozurgeTisaken...
number of prisoners reached 2000 and there were many women mivediT ozurgeTis cixeSi sam saaTze, aq dagvixda
among them. I remember one good Georgian, priest Lavrenti mTeli guriis mowinave pirebi datusaRebuli. bevri
Tsuladze. The next day, on Monday, Nikifore Imnaishvili was gadaiyvanes samxedro yazarmebSi, uadgilobis gamo.
arrested. (He was executed in 1939). After a week all were re- daaxloebiT ori aTasi kaci iyo da maT Soris bevri

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mandilosanic. aqve iyo kargi qarTveli, mRvdeli leased besides twelve of us who opposed the Bolsheviks dur-
lavrenti wulaZec. meore dRes, orSabaTs. moiyvanes ing the period Georgia was independent. (Kr. Imnaishvili, Isaki
nikifore imnaiSvili (n.imnaiSvili Cekam daxvrita Urushadze, Ekvtime Todradze (unfrocked priest), N. Chkonia,
1939-Si). erTi kviris Semdeg sul yvelani gaanTavisu-
Shio Chanturishvili. I don’t remember the names of the rest
fles, mxolod dagvtoves Tormeti, romlebic Cveni
three prisoners.)
damoukideblobis dros iyvnen bolSevikebis daun-
dobeli mtrebi: qr.imnaiSvili, grigol cincaZe,
giorgi murvaniZe, grigol cincabaZe, evgeni imnaiS- The 26th of May is approaching. There are preparations for
vili, isaki uruSaZe, eqvTime TodraZe (gaxuWuli the occasion outside. We hear people bustling in the street. A
mRvdeli), n.Wyonia, Sio WanturiSvili. sami saxeli large-scale meeting was arranged on Ozurgeti Square. We hear
aRar maxsovs. the wonderful patriotic words of Giorgi Nakashidze directed
against the traitors and conquerors.
moaxlovda 26 maisi. gareT emzadebian sadResas-
wauloT. gvesmis xalxis didi moZraoba. ozurgeTis
All the consequences vividly show what reaction followed the
qalaqis moedanze moawyves didi mitingi, moismis
Soviet army invasion in the Guria region. In April, the dead
giorgi nakaSizis patriotuli SesaniSnavi sityvebi,
samSoblos moRalateTa da dampyrobelTa winaRmdeg body of Capt. Grigol Kvashali, Commander of Batumi Legion
mimarTuli. Tu rogor Sexvda xalxi TviT guriaSi of National Guard who was killed in Tabakhmela was moved
rusis xiStebzed dayrdnobil sabWoTa xelisufle- to Guria. The whole region was prepared for the event. Resi-
bas, es aSkarad Canda im faqtebidan, rasac adgili dents of nearby communities of Ozurgeti, delegates form other
hqonda mTels guriaSi. aprilSi guriaSi Camoasvenes regions; ordinary people dressed in black and with huge black
tabaxmelaze mokluli saxalxo gvardiis baTomis flags met the boy of deceased national hero. At the funeral they
aTaseulis ufrosi, kapitani grigol kvaSali. mTeli buried him in the Ozurgeti Square, in the churchyard in silence.
mazra am movlenisaTvis winaswar momzadebuli iyo.
The Soviet government could not dare to interfere….
aq. ozurgeTis da axlo-maxlo Temebis mcxovrebni,
delegatebi sxva raionebidan, didZali xalxi Saveb-
Si Cacmuli, didi Savi droSebiT Seegeben samSob- On April 8, on Easter I found one of my relatives among the
losaTvis Tavdadebul gmiris cxedars. usityvod, prison guard members. I made connections with him and he
samariseburi siCumiT,miasvenes is da dakrZales helped us to escape form prison. We went to the village of Na-
ozurgeTis qalaqis moedanze eklesiis ezoSi. sab- sakirali – Village Mshvidobauri, where we contacted Simonika
WoTa xelisuflebam Careva ver gabeda... Gogiberidze. Simonika brought two carbines with cartridges.
We found shelter in one deserted mill and Simonika’s mother
8 aprils, aRdgoma dRes, cixis mcvelebSi aRmova- provided us with food. This was the village of Chachieti. Com-
Cine erTi Cemi naTesavi. masTan gavabi kavSiri da
munists blocked all ways. My sister lived in this village. Chek-
misi saSualebiT gavediT cixis kedlebidan. gavediT
ists attacked her family and arrested my aged parents, destroyed
nasakirali-sof. mSvidobaurSi, sadac dagvakav-
Sires simonika gogiberiZes. simonikam mogvitana my house, broke to pieces and the Communists took it away.
ori Tofi karabinis, Tavis vaznebiT. Tavs vafareb- My mother could not bear the torture and fell ill. She died in
diT erT miyruebul wisqvilSi da saWmeli moqonda six months. My wife was tortured in Cheka, she was forced to
simonikas dedas. es iyo sof. WaWieTi. Kkomunistebma change her surname but she refused. Then she was lost in Si-
yvela gzebi Sekres. am sofelSi cxovrobda Cemi da, beria.
daecnen mis ojaxs Cekistebi, Cemi Rrmad moxuci ded-
mama daatusaRes, Cemi oda daSales, waiRes da komu- This is all February had brought to me and my country.”
nistebma daidges. dedaCemi daavadmyofda am wamebiT
da gardaicvala eqvs TveSi. Cemi coli CekaSi awames,
moTxoves gvari gamoicvaleo. ar gamoicvala gvari.
Semdeg cimbirSi daikarga.

ai, ra momitana me da ra moutana Cvens samSoblos

Tebervalma~.

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 TV saqarTvelos
mimoxilva/REVIEW

axali proeqtebi
rusudan cimakuriZe
rusudan tsimakuridze

Documentary and feature films on military samxedro Tematikaze Seqmnili dokumen-

themes, information regarding the armament turi da mxatvruli filmebi, informacia
and military equipment of the Georgian Armed qarTuli SeiaraRebuli Zalebis SeiaraRe-
Forces, social advertisements – with this for- bisa da teqnikis Sesaxeb, socialuri saxis
reklamebi _ aseTi formatiT ramdenime
mat a new TV station appeared in the Georgian
Tvis win mauwyebloba daiwyo axalma tele-
airwaves in the last few months. The interest of
viziam. sazogadoebis mxridan samxedro
the public towards the military channel made arxis mimarT gaCenilma interesma tele-
the TV Company’s agenda more ambitious. It was viziis ambiciac gazarda. jer kidev 2007
already planned by the end of 2007 that TV Sakart- wlis dasasruls daigegma, rom `saqarT-
velo would start its own productions and start velo~ sakuTar produqcias Seqmnida da
a new year 2008 with new TV programs. The first at- axal wels siaxleebiT Sexvdeboda. pirveli
tempt was the `News Digest~ that was first aired aseTi mcdeloba `sainformacio daijesti~
in February. Each evening it tries to satisfy the iyo, romelic eTerSi pirvelad TebervalSi
interest of all categories of viewers and offers gavida. is yovel saRamos cdilobs daakmay-
them exhaustive information especially for the ofilos nebismieri kategoriis mayureblis
persons who take special interest in daily events
interesi da amomwuravi informacia miawo-
dos gansakuTrebiT im adamianebs, visac
and ongoing reforms in the defence sphere. Con-
qarTuli armiis yoveldRiuroba da mimdin-
sidering the rating of the TV Channel the number
are reformebi ainteresebs. arxis reitin-
of the viewers is very impressive. gis mixedviT ki aseTi auditoria sakmaod
didia.
According to the producer of `News Digest,~
it is difficult but at the same time very inter- rogorc `sainformacios daijestis~ pro-
diuseri acxadebs, `daijestze~ muSaoba
rTulia, magram saintereso. gadacemis for-
mati mxolod samxedro sferoSi arsebuli
yoveldRiuri siaxleebis gaSuqebas iTval-
iswinebs. korespondentebs instensiurad
uwevT Temebze muSaoba, xSirad dRe da Ram
poligonebze yofna da yvelaze sainetero
siaxlis mayureblamde mitana. swored amaSia
maTi muSaobis specifikis sirTulec. axla
mieCvivnen, Tumca Tavidan gauWirdaT.

laSa bliaZe _ sainformacio daijestis pro-

diuseri:

proeqti gacilebiT adre daiwyo, vidre eTerSi

gavidoda. jer kidev oqtombridan vemzadebodiT.
es aris yoveldRiuri daijesti imis Sesaxeb, Tu ra
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TV Sakartvelo
new projects

lobs, jaris yoveldRiuri cxovreba sazogadoe-

bisaTvis cnobili gaxados da albaT samxedroebis
garda im adamianebisTvisac, romlebic dainter-
esebuli arian SeiaraRebul ZalebSi ganxorciele-
buli cvlilebebiT. 4 Tebervlidan, kviris garda,
eTerSi yovel dRe gavdivarT. SabaTs ukve mTeli
kviris gamorCeuli siuJetebi gadis, rac imaze miu-
TiTebs, Tu ramdenad bevri cvlilebaa da ramdenad
qmediTunariania SeiaraRebuli Zalebis muSaoba.

Temebzec sakmaod bevrs muSaobT. yoveldRiuri

siaxle erT sferoSi mainc ver iqneba imdenad
bevri, rogorc mTliand qveyanaSi ganviTarebu-
li movlenebi, rasac sxva telekompaniebis sain-
formacio saSualebebi aSuqeben.

iqidan gamomdinare, rom gadacema orientire-

bulia konkretuli sferos zogad axal ambebze,
keTdeba Tematuri siuJetebic, romelic moicavs esting to work on the digest. The format of
yvela saxeobas da sxvadasxva saqmiT dakavebul the TV program envisages covering of daily
samxedroebs, gamorCeul oficrebs da a.S. anu Cven events in the defence sphere. Reporters have
gvinda am formiT ufro axlos gavacnoT sazoga- to work intensively day and night and spend
doebas jariskacis cxovreba. imis gamo, rom es ar most of their time on the shooting range and
aris Ria sistema, albaT mniSvnelovania garkveuli report on the most interesting facts. This is
gamWvirvaleoba SevitanoT Tundac jariskacis cx-
the main complexity of the working specifics
ovrebaSi, ras saqmianoben isini, ra aris maTTvis
but despite the difficulties the reporters are
mniSvnelovani, ra problemebi aqvT da a.S.
getting used to it.
televizia sakmaod rTuli meqanizmia. rogoria
Tqveni da mTlianad sainformacio gundis dRis
reJimi? Lasha Bliadze – Producer of News Digest

garda im Temebisa, romelic qarTul jars ukav- We started to work on the project far earlier than it was aired.
Sirdeba, yoveldRiurad vakeTebT patara bloks We started preparations in October of the previous year. This
ucxour axal ambebze. es axali ambebic ZiriTadad is the daily digest of what is happening in the Georgian Armed
samSvidoboebis cxel wertilebSi muSaobas, msof-
Forces, what is new. The main goal of the TV program is to make
lioSi momxdar teroristul aqtebs da aseTi saxis
the public familiar with the daily life of the army and besides the
mniSvnelovan Temebs ukavSirdeba.
servicemen it informs the interested part of society about the
rac Seexeba dRis ganrigs, pirobebi, romelSic ongoing events in the Georgian Armed Forces. We have been
Jurnalistebi muSaoben, gansxvavebulia, iqidan on air since February 4th every day except Sunday. On Saturday
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demonstratin the capability and efficiency of the Armed Forces. poligonebze, samxedro bazebsa da sxva samxedro
obieqtebze xdeba. anu Cven gadavwyviteT, rom
You work hard on the topics as well. Daily news in just one field agverCia es tempi, aqedan gamomdinare sakmaod dat-
that can not compete with the overall number of events that are virTuli samuSao grafiki gvaqvs.
happening in the country during a day that are covered by other
rogor fiqrobT ramdenad axerxebT mayure-
TV companies.
blamde amomwuravi da obieqturi informaciis
mitanas?
Considering the fact that the TV program is generally oriented
on the news concretely in one field, we are also preparing the- mgoni gamogvdis. siuJetebi, romlebic CvenTan ga-
matic stories covering each service of the Armed Forces, also, dis ar aris saintereso mxolod samxedro mosam-
soldiers from various army units, distinguished officers and so saxureTaTvis. is sazogadoebis garkveul nawil-
on. We want to inform the public about the army life more close- sac ainteresebs. Cveni gundiT yvelafers vakeTebT
ly. Due to the fact that the defence sphere is not itself an open imisaTvis, rom mayurebeli davainteresoT. Tumca
amiT ar vkmayofildebiT. Cveni mTavari principi
system we can make our own contribution to making the army
obieqturoba da ukeTesis Seqmnis ambiciaa.
life more transparent, showing what the soldiers are doing, what
is important for them, what problems they face, etc. sainformacio daijestis paralelurad `saqarT-
velos~ eTerSi irakli aladaSvilis yovelk-
vireuli saavtoro gadacema gamoCnda. zusti mo-
Television is a very complicated mechanism. What can you say nacemebi da teqnikur-taqtikuri SesaZleblobe-
about the daily agenda of the news program team? bi, sabrZolo aRWurviloba da misi gamoyenebis
meqanizmebi, qarTuli jaris realuri Zala da
Besides the topics related to the Georgian Army we prepare a samxedro potenciali, msoflio samxedro miR-
short digest about foreign news. This news is also associated with wevebi da maTi ganviTarebis perspeqtivebi _ am
yvelafers mayurebeli `arsenali~-s saSualebiT
peacekeeping missions in the hot places, terrorist attacks and
gaecnoba. irakli aladaSvili aqamde samxedro
other important topics.
Temas presis saSualebiT aSuqebda. 7 Tebervli-
dan ki samxedro Jurnalisti yvelaze samxedro,
As to our daily agenda, the working conditions of our journalists yvelaze SeiaraRebul da yvelaze profesion-
are different due to the fact that every other footage is done on aluri armiaze `saqarTvelo~-s teleeTeriT sau-
the military bases, shooting ranges or on the territory of other brobs.

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irakli aladaSvili _ samxedro analitikuri military facilities. We decided to choose this pace so we have a
Jurnalis mTavari redaqtori, gazeT `kviris very busy schedule.
palitris~ samxedro mimomxilveli:
Do you think you manage to provide the audience with comprehen-
`arsenali~-s mTavari mizania mosaxleobas, mayureb- sive and balanced information?
els gaacnos saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli Zalebis
aRWurviloba, SeiaraReba da a.S. mosaxleobam met-
I think we are doing well. Reports prepared by us are not only in-
naklebad kargad unda icodes Tu ras warmoadgens
esa Tu is iaraRi, ra SesaZlebloba aqvs mas. aseve teresting for the military servicemen but for a considerable part
didi mniSvneloba aqvs, rom axalgazrdebma, vinc of our society. Our team is doing its best to interest the public.
xval SeiZleba jarSi wavides, an kontraqti gaa- Still, this does not give us a reason to feel satisfied. Our main
formos Tavdacvis saministrosTan, icodnen ra ia- principle is to be impartial and have ambition to create better
raRTan mouwevT urTierToba. production.

es gadacema samxedro-analitikuri Jurnalis erT- Alongside the News Digest another new project – a weekly
gvari gagrZelebaa. Tavidan samxedro Temas gazeT program of Irakli Aladashvili appeared on TV Sakartvelo. Pre-
`kviris palitraSi~ erTi gverdi eTmoboda, Semdeg cise specifications and technical-tactical characteristics, com-
gamovida Jurnali. mixaria, rom am sferoze gadace- bat equipment and their operation mechanisms, real strength
ma televiziaSic gamoCnda, rac niSnavs, rom ufro and military potential of the Georgian Armed Forces, military
profesionaluri xdeba samxedro saqme da gadace- achievements of the world and perspectives of their development
misgan mayurebelic sakmaod did profesionalizms
– these are from the list of issues TV program “Arsenali” will
moiTxovs.
inform its viewers about. Journalist Irakli Aladashvili was cover-
mivesalmebi saqarTveloSi aseTi televiziis Seqm- ing defence issues in the press. From February 7th he uses the TV
nas, romelic ZiriTadad samxedro Temebs aSuqebs Sakartvelo’s air to talk about the most military, most well-armed
da minda, rom rac SeiZleba profesionaluri gaxdes and most professional army.
is. bevr qveyanaSi ar aris msgavsi precendenti, zo-
gierT qveyanaSi mxolod ramdenimewuTiani gadace- Irakli Aladashvili, – Editor-in-chief of military analytical
maa. is, rom saqarTveloSi samxedro arxia niSnavs, magazine, military columnist of the Georgian newspaper “Kviris
rom saxelmwifo am sferos seriozul yuradRebas Palitra”:
uTmobs. popularoba, rac televiziam bolo ram-
denime Tvis ganmavlobaSi moipova saxezea. nel- The major goal of “Arsenali” is to inform the public about the arma-
nela, ra Tqma unda, igi ufro daixveweba, ufro ment and equipment of the Georgian Armed Forces. To a certain ex-
profesionaluri gaxdeba da met mayurebels moi- tent society should be informed about the specifications of various
povebs.
equipment. It is also very important for the youngsters who will join
the Army in the future to know what equipment he will have to use.
didi xania samxedro sferoze werT, magram tele-
vizia mainc sxva specifikaa. ra aris aq TqvenTvis
saintereso? The TV program is a kind of continuation of the military-analyt-
ical magazine. From the very beginning, the articles on military
1992 wlidan samxedro JurnalistikaSi var. momi- topic were placed just on one page of Kviris Palitra, then the
wia yofna yvela konfliqtur zonaSi - afxazeTSi, magazine was published. I’m very glad that this topic appeared
cxinvalSi, CeCneTSi, sxva adgilebSi. erTi rame on the TV screens as well. This means that the military profes-
vici, rom es profesia Zalian rTulia, ara mxolod sion is becoming more professional and the viewer demand great
imitom, rom saxifaToa, aramed Tavisi specifikiT professionalism from us as well.
gamoirCeva - mosaxleobas, mayurebels, mkiTxvels
unda gadasce mTeli is sirTule, rasac omi hqvia. I welcome the establishment of such television that mostly cov-
televiziaSi gadacemis keTeba aRmoCnda kidev ers military issues and I want it to become more and more profes-
ufro rTuli, vidre Jurnalis. problema ara aris sional. The precedents exist in many countries, some have only
informaciis mopoveba, magram kadrebiT misi gada-
short programs. The fact that a military channel exists in Geor-
farva rTuli aRmoCnda, radgan igive sabrZolo
gia means that the government pays great attention to this field.
teqnikis kadrebi saqarTveloSi bevri ar iSoveba,
omis droindeli kadrebi mcirea. amas garda, aris The popularity TV Sakartvelo gained is evident. With time, it will
faqtebi, rodesac ufro metis Tqma da gakeTeba become more elaborate, professional and attract more viewers.
minda, magram raRaca dakavSirebulia samxedro
saidumloebasTan an qveynis interesebidan gamom- You have been writing about the military sphere for a long time,
dinare vikaveb Tavs. ara da guliT minda mosaxleo- but the specifics of TV are quite different. What is the most inter-
bam maqsimalurad yvelaferi icodes. esting thing of all in this field?

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I have been in military journalism since 1992. I had to work in male saqarTvelos SeiaraRebul Zalebis Ses-
conflict zones – in Abkhazia, Tskhinvali, Chechnya and other axeb eTerSi kidev erTi gadacema gava. Tavdacvis
places. I know one thing: this is a very difficult profession, not saministrosa da `sazogadoebrivi mauwyeblis~
only because it is dangerous, it has different specifics – you must erToblivi proeqti `profesia jariskaci~ weli-
bring to the public, viewers, and readers the whole difficulty that wadnaxevris ganmavlobaSi `sazogadoebriv mauw-
yeblis~ eTerSi gadaicemoda. gadacemis avtorma
is called war. To prepare a TV program appeared to be more dif-
giorgi cxvitavam telekompania `saqarTveloze~
ficult compared to a magazine. There is no problem to get infor-
gadacema mcireodeni cvlilebebiT gadaitana.
mation but we encountered the problem to cover the information arxze TveSi oTxi dokumenturi filmi gava. ori
with sufficient shots as we have scarce archive of shots of combat maTgani uSualod saqarTvelos SeiaraRebuli
equipment and war. There are also some other issues when you Zalebis dRevandelobas mieZRvneba. mesame fil-
want to say and prepare more materials but they are connected mi istoriuli Janris iqneba da 1917-1921 wlebs
to military secrets or I consider the interests of my country. I moicavs. meoTxe filmis ideis avtori proeqtis
want to provide maximum of information to the public. reJisori Salva Sengelia. misi scenaris mixed-
viT Seqmnili filmi samxedro mosamsaxureebis
TV station Sakartvelo will offer another new program about the SeiaraRebuli Zalebis ganvlil gzas warmoad-
Georgian Armed Forces to the public. Joint project of the Defence gens.
Ministry and Public Broadcasting Channel `Profession Soldier~
was transmitted by Public Broadcasting Channel during a year telekompania `saqarTvelos~ samxedro-poli-
and a half. The author of the program Giorgi Tskhvitava made tikuri redaqcia cxrakaciani gundiT muSaobs.
`profesia jariskaci~-s garda dagegmilia stu-
slight changes to the program format and it will be aired by TV
diuri gadacemis Seqmna, romlis detalebzec
`Sakartvelo~. Four documentary films will be broadcast in a
giorgi cxvitavas vesaubreT. is axali Toq-
month. Two of them will be dedicated to ongoing development of Sous wamyvani iqneba.
the Georgian Armed Forces. The third one will be historical and
cover the 1917-1921 period. The idea of the fourth film belongs to giorgi cxvitava: `profesia jariskacis~ garda
Shalva Shengelia. According to scenario, the film will present the kidev erT gadacemas vamzadebT. es iqneba Toq-Sou,
life and career development of a concrete military serviceman since sadac iqnebian stumrebi, daeswrebian gulSemat-
the very first days of joining the army. kivrebi da mayureblebi. aq im problemebze iqneba
Riad saubari, romelic SeiaraRebul ZalebSi arse-
Military-political editorial group of TV Company `Sakartvelo~ bobs, Tumca Cven aravis mivcemT saSualebas jarSi
works with a nine-member team. Besides the program `Profession arsebuli problemebiT ispekuliron da gamoi-
Soldier~ preparation of a new talk show is scheduled. We talked yenon garkveuli Temebi. realurad es iqneba saqmi-
with the anchor of a new talk-show Giorgi Tskhvitava about ani ganxilva im problemebisa, romlebic arsebobs.
the details of the program.
mayurebels SevTavazebT sakiTxebs, romlebic Tav-
isi usafrTxoebidan da safrTxeebidan, muqarebi-
We are preparing another program besides “Profession Soldier”. dan da riskebidan gamomdinare problemuri iqneba
This will be a talk-show, where we’ll invite the guests, supporters rogorc jariskacebis, aseve qveynisTvis. TavisTa-
and viewers. We’ll have open discussions on problems that exist vad moxdeba `Tavdacvis strategiuli mimoxilvis
in the Georgian Armed Forces though at the same time we’ll dokumentis~ (SDR) garkveuli epizodebis ganxilva
avoid to give any reasons for speculations with the problems. In da sxva im sakiTxebisa, romlebic saintereso iqne-
reality this will be a productive discussion of existing problems. ba ara mxolod SeiaraRebuli Zalebis samxedro
We’ll offer the public those issues for discussion that are prob- mosamsaxureebisTvis, aramed Cveulebrivi rigiTi
lematic for the country and soldiers emerging from the security, moqalaqeebisTvisac.
threats and existing risks. We are going to discuss some chapters
from SDR (Strategic Defence Review) and other issues that will rogorc samxedro Temaze momuSave Jurnalisti,
be interesting not only for the military but for the ordinary citi- Seni azriT, ra datvirTva aqvs am televizias, ra-
zens as well. tom aRiqmeba pozitiurad misi gamoCena tele-
sivrceSi?
As a journalist working on military issues, how would you evaluate
me-20 saukunis miwurulidan, mas Semdeg, rac gad-
the role of this television, why is its appearance considered as posi- awyda da gamoikveTa, rom informacia aris yvelaze
tive in the TV space? mTavari, mTelma rigma dasavlurma qveynebma iseTi
arxis Seqmna daiwyes, romelic samxedro mosam-
At the end of the 20th century, it was decided and underscored saxureebze iqneboda orientirebuli. qveynebis
that information is very important, and a range of western coun- CamonaTvals ar gavakeTeb, radgan igi sakmaod did-
tries started establishing military oriented channels. I won’t name ia. Cven imdenad patara qveyana varT, rom patriot-

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ul Temaze da saerTod, samxedro saqmeze aucile- these countries, because their number is very big. We are very
belia mosaxleobas gaaCndes miukerZoebeli da small country and population should have impartial and non-po-
arapolitizirebuli informacia. sawyis etapze liticized information on patriotic and military issues. At starting
am arxma Tavisi arseboba gaamarTla. Tu ki es arxi stage, this channel was successful. If this channel will continue
gaagrZelebs apolitikurad mauwyeblobas da mx- non-politicized broadcasting and will stress only on nuances of
olod SeiaraRebuli Zalebis garkveul niuansebze
Armed Forces, of course they should be far from military secrets,
gaakeTebs aqcents, romelic ra Tqma unda samxedro
this channel will gain a very serious perspective.
saidumloebisgan Sors iqneba, am arxs sakmaod se-
riozuli perspeqtiva eqneba.
Do you think you will fully realize yourself on this channel?
TvliT rom Tqvens sityvas ityviT am arxze?
I think we’ll have the option to describe and evaluate events at
Cven vTvliT, rom am arxze gveqneba imis saSualeba, Georgian Armed Forces absolutely impartially and freely on
rom absoluturad miukerZoeblad da damoukide- this channel. Hence such kind of military product didn’t exist in
blad vTqvaT da SevafasoT is movlenebi, rac xdeba Georgian TV market, besides “Profession Soldier”. We started
SeiaraRebul ZalebSi. miTumets, rom dRemde video the first experiment on TV “MZE” in 2003. But it was aired per-
produqti saqarTvelos satalevizio bazarze ase- manently and didn’t have the large spectrum of audience that it
Ti saxiT, Tu ar CavTvliT `profesia jariskacs~, gained later. Such kind of military product doesn’t exist in Geor-
ar yofila. misi garkveuli mcdeloba jer kidev gia. So, with our product we can demonstrate the situation in
2003 wels Cven daviwyeT telekompania `mzeze~. the Georgian Armed Forces not only to the military, but also
Tumca es iyo permanentuli xasiaTis da aseTi far- to civilian persons. We can arouse the interest and desire of or-
To speqtri mayureblebisa mas ar hyolia, rogorc
dinary citizens to serve in the Armed Forces. In particular, the
ukve SemdgomSi SeiZina. realurad am telekompani-
reservists’ program is very popular today. Many people are going
is garda dRes saqarTveloSi video produqti samx-
edro Temaze ar keTdeba. aqedan gamomdinare Cven
SegviZlia Cveni produqciiT vaCvenoT ara marto
samxedro mayurebels, aramed samoqalaqo pirebsac
Tu ra xdeba dRes SeiaraRebul ZalebSi. am for-
miT gavaRvivebT garkveul interess da mondome-
bas, rom Cveulebrivma adamianebmac gadawyviton
SeiaraRebul ZalebSi samsaxuri. miTumets, rom
Tundac rezervistebis programa dRemde sakmaod
popularulia. bevri adamiani midis, bevri wavida
da Zalian bevrma adamianma TviTon rezervSi naxa
es video produqcia samxedro Temaze. Sesabamisad
es gamoiwvevs interess, Tu ki sazogadoebas swori
kuTxiT miewodeba informacia.

kidev erTi siaxle _ Toq-Sou, romelsac kidev

erTi profesionali samxedro Jurnalisti koba
liklikaZe waiyvans. mis gadacemaSi saubris Zir-
iTadi Tema Crdilo-atlantikuri xelSekruleb-
is organizacia da nato-saqarTvelos urTier-
Tobebi iqneba.

koba liklikaZe: proeqti Cafiqrebulia, rogorc

garkveuli politikuri Sou. misi mTavari Tema, anu
rasac mieZRvneba gadacemaTa cikli, iqneba saubari
nato-ze, saqarTvelo-nato-s urTierTobebi. bune-
brivia ver avcdebiT garkveul perspeqtivebs da
garkveul riskebs. magram ufro koncentrirebuli
viqnebiT imaze, ra gakeTda, ra gza gaiara saqarT-
velom, ra saxiT monawileobs nato-s programebSi,
nato-s operaciebSi, ras aZlevs es qveyanas. es aris
benefici, romelic realuria qveynisTvis da misi
usafrTxoebisTvis, Tu es aris kidev erTi morigi
miTi, rac iqmneba Cveni monawileobiT Tu xelSew-
yobiT. erTi sityviT, SevecdebiT maqsimalurad
giorgi cxvitava gadamReb jgufTan erTad
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to reserve; many went and saw this video product on military is- davukmayofiloT cnobismoyvareoba pirvel rigSi
sues there. According to this, providing information in the right samxedro auditorias da maTi ojaxis wevrebs; me-
way will spark the interest of society. ore mxriv, ra Tqma unda, sazogadoebis sxva nawils,
romelsac fokusirebulad ainteresebs es sakiTxi,
One more new project: professional journalist Koba Liklikadze will magram sxva arxebze ver iRebs am kiTxvebze pasuxs.
lead new talk-show. The main subject of the program will be North
me viqnebi am gadacemis wamyvani, iqnebian stumrebi,
Atlantic Treaty Organization and NATO-Georgia relations.
iqneba auditoriac, rac mniSvnelovania, radgan au-
ditoriaSi zogjer ibadeba ufro saintereso kiTx-
Koba Liklikadze: The project is decided to be like a political show. vebi, vidre es dialogSi Tu diskusiaSi Cabmulma
The main subject of program will be talks on NATO and NATO- wamyvanma, SesaZlebelia, im momentSi improvizire-
Georgia relations. It is natural that we cannot avoid certain per- bulad moifiqros. rac Seexeba sxva teqnikur
spectives and certain challenges. We will concentrate on what was sakiTxebs, magaliTad, Tu rogori iqneba studia da
done, what Georgia passed and how it participates in NATO pro- sxva detalebi, esec damuSavebis stadiaSia. magram
grams and operations, what these give to the country. Is it a real dominirebs nato, nato-s qveynebi, radgan vizua-
benefit for our country and its security, or it is one more myth luri efeqtic aseTi unda iyo. Tumca gadacema ar
which is being created with our assistance? In one word, we’ll do emsaxureba aranair efeqts, is ar emsaxureba ara-
our best to satisfy the interest of military audience and their fami- nair piars da propagandas, radgan me vfiqrob, rom
es etapi ukve gavlilia saqarTveloSi, xalxma icis,
lies, also the parts of society that are interested in this issue, but
maTi udidesi nawilis arCevani Segnebulia. ubralod
can’t receive the answers to these questions on other channels.
darCa ramdenime sakiTxi, rac am SemTxvevaSi arsebi-
Tia da SeiZleba iyos ganxiluli. magaliTad, koso-
I will be an anchor of this program. We will have guests and an audi- vos precendenti da rogor ganviTardeba movlenebi
ence, which is very important, because sometimes more interesting saerTaSoriso asparezze, avRaneTis problema ... ai,
questions emerge in audience than improvised by the presenter of am kuTxiT Cven am studiaSi, am yovelkvireuli gada-
the program in dialogue and in discussions. Concerning the tech- cemis farglebSi, SevecdebiT visaubroT im adami-
nical matter, appearance of the studio and other details are in the anebTan, romlebsac dasavleTSi, ase vTqvaT, gone-

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bis azrTa mpyrobelebs uwodeben, romelTa azri da elaboration process. As to the visual effect and background, NATO
gavlena mniSvnelovania qveynisTvis. and Alliance members dominate. But TV-show doesn’t serve any
purpose like PR and propaganda, and people already know this as
rogorc samxedro Jurnalistis, an Tundac Cveu- they have passed this way. This stage is completed and to my mind
lebrivi mayureblis SefasebiT, ra datvirTva they fully realize their choice. There are the rest of some other issues
aqvs samxedro televizas an Tundac am Tematika-
which should be discussed, for example, Kosovo precedent, Afghan-
ze Seqmnil gadacemas?
istan and possible development of events in the international arena.
Tavidanve mxars vuWerdi aseTi profilis tele-
viziis arsebobas, radgan yovelTvis vambobdi da In the framework of this program we’ll discuss these issues with
vambob, rom bulgareTSi, saberZneTSi dResac ar- those experts and analysts who are called the opinion-makers in the
sebobs samxedro televizia. SeiZleba sxvaganac West and their view and influence really matters for the country.
arsebobdes, magram, me mgoni es oric sakmarisia
zogadi suraTis warmosadgenad. arsebobs samx- What is the evaluation of a military journalist or just as an ordi-
edro-samoqalaqo urTierTobebi, arsebobs samx- nary citizen of the role of the military channel and the program
edro profesia, arsebobs samxedro saqme, romelic created to deal with military issues?
saqarTveloSi yovelTvis iyo cxoveli interesis
sagani, radgan meomari bunebis eri varT. bevri I supported the establishment of a military channel from the
ram istoriidan, Tanamedroveoba, qarTuli armiis
very beginning. I always declared and reiterate now that military
mSenebloba _ es aris is sakiTxebi, rac moqalaqeebs
channels exist in Bulgaria and in Greece. Maybe they exist in oth-
ainteresebT da koncentrirebulad erT arxze
am yvelafris Tavmoyra aris Zalian kargi. sasur- er countries as well, but I think these two examples are enough to
velia meti SemecnebiTi gadacemebi iyos, radgan have a general picture.
Cveni jaris inteleqtualuri Tvalsawieric ga-
Zlierdeba. SesaZlebelia gaCndes samecniero pro- There are civil-military relations; there is a military profession
gramebic, radgan me vfiqrob, rom armia unda iyos and a military career that has always been very interesting for
erTgvari akumulatori yvela mowinave ideisa, rac Georgians, because Georgians have a martial spirit. Thus, cov-
samxedro-teqnikuri TvalsazrisiT arsebobs da ering all historical, modern facts and the issues of building the
zogadad samoqalaqo cnobierebis Camoyalibebis Georgian Armed Forces on one channel is very good. Existence
TvalsazrisiT is ar unda iyos autsaideri, is unda of educational programs is also desirable, because it will increase
iyos avangardis rolSi. the intellectual knowledge of the Army. The creation of scientist
channels is possible, because I think the Army should be the driv-
erTi sityviT, arsebobs televizia, is Zalas ikrebs
ing force of all advanced ideas from a military-technical point of
da bevri saintereso proeqti SemdgomSi aucile-
blad gaCndeba. view and in terms of establishment of civil consciousness it must
not be an outsider but it must be in the avant-garde.
telekompania `saqarTvelo~ 2007 wlis seqtem-
bridan mauwyeblobs. am xnis ganmavlobaSi arxma In one word, there is a television, which is gaining more power,
satelevizio sivrceSi sakuTari adgili daim- and interesting projects will emerge in the future by all means.
kvidra. sociologiuri kvlevebis kompaniis
`bisiji~-s monacemebiT gansakuTrebuli popu- TV `Sakartvelo~ began broadcasting in September 2007. This
larobiT `saqarTvelo~ 18-dan 40 wlamde ma- channel has established its place in the TV space during this peri-
makacebSi sargeblobs. maRali reitingiT `sain- od. According to opinion poll results, TV `Sakartvelo~ is the most
formacio daijesti~ da `arsenali~ gamoirCeva. popular channel among the males from 18 to 40 years. `News Di-
jer-jerobiT arxis dafarvis zona TbilisiT,
gest~ and `Arsenali~ are distinguished with high rating. At this
quTaisiT, saCxeriT, senakiTa da goris raioniT
stage the channel is broadcasting in Tbilisi, Kutaisi, Sachkhere,
Semoifargleba. axlo momavalSi dafarvis zona
mTels saqarTvelos moicavs, rac televiziis Senaki and Gori. In the nearest future `Sakartvelo~ will cover the
reitingis gazrdazec imoqmedebs. dReisaTvis whole Georgia, which will increase the rating of this TV channel.
`saqarTvelos~ yvelaze erTgul mayureblad Today military servants are among the most devoted and perma-
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mimoxilva/REVIEW

On the 1st of March competition “Rescuer 2008” 1 marts daba gudaurSi sasazRvro policiis
took place in Gudauri. Competition was orga- iniciativiTa da euTos misiis xelSewyobiT
nized by the Georgian Border Police with the samaSvelo Sejibri - „maSveli 2008~ gaimarTa.
support of OSCE mission to Georgia.
SejibrSi sasazRvro policiis, Sss sagangebo situ-
Georgian Border Police, Emergency Control Department of Min- aciaTa marTvis departamentisa da saqarTvelos
istry of Internal Affairs and MoD’s Mountain Training School of Tavdacvis saministros saCxeris samTo momzadebis
Sachkhere took part in the competition. Relay race started with skolis warmomadgenlebi monawileobdnen.
giant slalom, where the winner became 1st.Sgt. Levan Kirikash-
vili, the representative of Georgian Border Police. estafeta giganturi slalomiT daiwyo, sadac
pirveloba sasazRvro policiis warmomadgenels,
In “Search and Rescue” operation teams of Georgian Border ufros serJants levan qirikaSvils xvda wilad.
Police, MOD’s Mountain Battalion and Emergency Control De-
partments were participating. During one hour they engaged in samaSvelo „Zebna-gadarCenis~ operaciaSi sasazRv-
competition with each other on separated and marked areas. ro policiis, Tavdacvis saministos samTo batal-
ionisa da sagangebo situaciaTa marTvis departa-
After signal, groups where ordered to search and rescue persons mentis gundebi monawileobdnen. isini erTmaneTs
suffered by avalanche. The imitation of suffered persons where cal–calke mowyobil markirebul adgilze erTi
done by handbags and PEEPS (Signal Send/Receive equipment). saaTis ganmavlobaSi ejibrebodnen.
Rescuer -2008

saerTo signalze gundebs zvavSi moyolili In “Search and Rescue” operation, Mod’s Sachkhere mountain
„dazaralebuli pirebis~ moZieba, maTi operatiu- training school won the competition.
lad amoyvana da usafrTxo teritoriaze gadayvana
hqondaT davalebuli. `dazaralebulis~ imitiacia On the final stage of the competition the joint operation was
zurgCanTisa da „pipsis~ (sasignalo mowyobiloba) demonstrated. All three groups took part in this operation. Ac-
saSualebiT xdeboda. „Zebna-gadarCenis~ operacia- cording to scenario, one of the groups were buried by avalanche,
Si pirveloba didi upiratesobiT saCxeris samTo people who survived asked for help to the nearby Border Police
skolam moipova. and rescuers, in SAR operations the Helicopter was engaged.
This competition was judged by competent jury, members
Sejibris daskvniT etapze erToblivi samaSvelo of which were Head of Georgian Border Police Lt.Gen Badri
operacia moewyo. operaciaSi samive uwyebis gaer- Bitsadze, the Head of Educational Department of JS of GAF
Tianebuli samaSvelo gundi monawileobda. sce- Bg.General Samson Kutateladze, Deputy Minister of Internal
naris mixedviT erTi gundi xeobaSi moulodnelad Affairs Maj.Gen Shalva Janashvili, head of OSCE mission to
Camowolil zvavSi moxvda. gadarCenilebi dasax- Georgia Mrs. Terri Hakalla, Jounrailst of TV company “Rustavi
mareblad sasazRvro policiis uaxloes postze 2” Giorgi Kepuladze and Author of TV Program “The Chess-
mesazRvreebsa da maSvelebs daukavSirdnen. zvavSi board” Tatia Pachkoria.
moyolilTa gadasarCenad operaciaSi sasazRvro
policiis vertmfrenic CaerTo. dazaralebuli
pirebis evakuacia sami sxvadasxva meTodiT - sakac-
iT, saevakuacio CanTiTa da samaSvelo samkuTxediT
ganxorcielda. Catarebul RonisZiebas kompeten-
turi Jiuri afasebda, romlis SemadgenlobaSi,
romelsac sasazRvro policiis ufrosi, gener-
al-leitenanti badri biwaZe Tavmjdomareobda,
saministros gaerTianebuli Stabis ganaTlebis
departamentis ufrosi, brigadis generali samson
quTaTelaZe, Ss ministris moadgile genel–maori
Salva janaSvili, saqarTveloSi euTos misiis elCi
teri hakala, telekompania rusTavi 2–is Jurnal-
isti giorgi kepulaZe da gadacema „Wadrakis dafis~
avtori da wamyvani TaTia paWkoria Sediodnen.

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rezervistebisaTvis
mimoxilva/REVIEW

On the 4th of March “Competition between Re- 4 marts Tavdacvis saministrosa da bavSvTa
servists” was organized with the joint efforts gasarTob centr `bao-babi~-is organize-
of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia and En- biT gaimarTa sportuli Sejibri `estafeta
tertainment Centre “Bao-Babi”. According to rezervistebisTvis.~ estafetis programis
the competition program reservist fathers mixedviT rezervisti mamebi, SvilebTan er-
with their children raced in running, shoot- Tad, sirbilSi, tirSi srolasa da kalaT-
ing and basketball.
burTSi ejibrebodnen erTmaneTs.
At the first level of the competition reservist fathers had to bring
the National flag of Georgia to the designated place. As for konkursis pirveli etapi – `yazarma~ rezervisti
the children their task was to take the flag back to the starting mamebisaTvis, dabrkolebebis gadalaxviT, erovnu-
point. li droSis daniSnulebis adgilamde mitanas iT-
valiswinebda. xolo maT Svilebs droSa imave gzis
The mission of the second level was to find the flag in the laby- gavliT ukan unda daebrunebinaT.
rinth, bring it to the shooting range where their fathers were wait-
ing for them as without the flag they were not allowed to fire. Sejibris meore etapis amocanas labirinTSi dro-
Sis moZebna warmoadgenda. `labirinTSi~ aRmoCeni-
At the third level of the competition “Sniper” participants con- li droSa monawile bavSvebs daniSnulebis adgilas
tested in shooting.
SeZlebisdagvarad swrafad unda mietanaT. adg-
ilze misvlisTanave rezervisti mama mizanSi sro-
And the last task was to shoot the most balls at the basket in
given time. las iwyebda da cdilobda erTi wuTis ganmavlobaSi
maqsimalurad bevri qulebi daegrovebina.
Members of jury considered father and his son Giorgi and Ma-
muka Japaridzes as winners. They were able to carry out all their konkursis mesame etapSi _ `snaiperi~, monawileebi
tasks without any penalties. erTmaneTs lazerul tirSi ejibrebodnen.

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Competition between
Reservists

meoTxe etapSi - `kalaTburTi~, rezervist mamasa After the competition the representative of publishing house
da Svils mocemul droSi, rac SeiZleba meti burTi “Elf” Veriko Chelidze granted all participants of the competition
unda CaegdoT kalaTSi. with children’s books.

The sponsor of the project company “Kazbegi” handed the win-

Jiuris wevrebma gamarjvebulad mama-Svili giorgi
ner father with his son the super prize television.
da mamuka jafariZeebi gamoavlines. maT davale-
bebis Sesruleba, sajarimoebis gareSe, minimalur Such kind of project “Competition between Reservists” was held
droSi SeZles. for the first time. The main purpose of the project was to make
future generation interested in reserve service.
Sejibris dasrulebis Semdeg, gamomcemloba
`elfi~ –is warmomadgenelma veriko WeliZem
RonisZiebis yvela monawile sabavSvo wignebiT
daasaCuqra. gamarjvebul mama-Svils ki proeq-
tis sponsorma kompania `yazbegma~ super prizi _
televizori gadasca.

rezervistebisaTvis msgavsi saxis Sejibri pirve-

lad Catarda da misi mizani momavali Taobis sar-
ezervo samsaxuriT daintereseba gaxldaT.

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fotokonkursi "Cemi
PhotoContest “My Soldier
 saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministros sazogadoebriv saqmeTa departamenti, Seiara­
Rebuli Zalebis popularizaciis mizniT, acxadebs yovelwliur fotokonkurss
Temaze «Cemi jariskaci». konkursSi monawileobis miReba SeuZliaT, rogorc
profesional, aseve moyvarul fotografebs.

konkursi Semdeg nominaciebSi gaimarTeba:

saukeTeso portreti,
saukeTeso kompozicia,
yvelaze dinamiuri kadri,
saukeTeso foto reportaJi.

yvela am nominaciaSi gamovlindeba TiTo gamarjvebuli, romelsac gadaecema

fuladi premia. garda amisa dawesebulia mTavari prizi «Cemi jariskaci», romelsac
specialurad Semdgari Jiuri gamoavlens.

konkursSi monawileobis msurvelebma Tavdacvis saministroSi unda warmoadginon

namuSevrebis eleqtronuli versia da «A-4» formatSi dabeWdili fotosuraTi
aranakleb 10 namuSevrisa, 20 martidan 20 aprilamde, Semdeg misamarTze:
Tbilisi, general kvinitaZis quCa #20. sazogadoebriv saqmeTa departamenti,
fotokonkursisaTvis «Cemi jariskaci». tel: 91 06 45, 91 19 63.

Public Affairs Department of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia announces annual Photo Contest
«My Soldier» aimed at popularization of the Georgian Armed Forces. Interested professional and
amateur photographers are invited to participate in the contest.

Photo Contest «My Soldier» will be held in the following nominations:

The Best Portrait,
The Best Composition,
The Most Dynamic Shot
The Best Photo Coverage.

The winners in each nomination will be awarded the cash prizes. The best photographer selected by the
jury will receive the special prize «My Soldier».

Photographers interested to take part in the photo contest can submit their entries in electronic and
A4-size format, no less than 10 photos, from March 20 st to April 20 st at the following address:
#20, Gen. Kvinitadze St., Ministry of Defence of Georgia; To Public Affairs Department, for Photo
Contest «My Soldier». tel: 91 06 45, 91 19 63.

jariskaci 2008"
2008”
qarTuli artileria 15 wlisaa
saqarTvelos Tavdacvis saministros sazogadoebriv saqmeTa departamenti, Seiara­
Rebuli Zalebis popularizaciis mizniT, acxadebs yovelwliur fotokonkurss
Temaze «Cemi jariskaci». konkursSi monawileobis miReba SeuZliaT, rogorc pro­
fesional, aseve moyvarul fotografebs.

The Georgian Artillery konkursi Semdeg nominaciebSi gaimarTeba:

saukeTeso portreti,

Celebrates the 15 Anniversary

saukeTeso kompozicia,
yvelaze dinamiuri kadri,
saukeTeso foto reportaJi.

yvela am nominaciaSi gamovlindeba TiTo gamarjvebuli, romelsac gadaecema fu­

ladi premia. garda amisa dawesebulia mTavari prizi «Cemi jariskaci», romelsac
specialurad Semdgari Jiuri gamoavlens.

konkursSi monawileobis msurvelebma Tavdacvis saministroSi unda warmoadginon

namuSevrebis eleqtronuli versia da «A-4» formatSi dabeWdili fotosuraTi
aranakleb 10 namuSevrisa, 20 martidan 20 aprilamde, Semdeg misamarTze:
Tbilisi, general kvinitaZis quCa #20. sazogadoebriv saqmeTa departamenti,
fotokonkursisaTvis «Cemi jariskaci». tel: 91 06 45, 91 19 63.

Public Affairs Department of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia announces annual Photo Contest
«My Soldier» aimed at popularization of the Georgian Armed Forces. Interested professional and ama-
teur photographers are invited to participate in the contest.

Photo Contest «My Soldier» will be held in the following nominations:

The Best Portrait,
The Best Composition,
The Most Dynamic Shot
The Best Photo Coverage.

The winners in each nomination will be awarded the cash prizes. The best photographer selected by the
jury will receive the special prize «My Soldier».

Photographers interested to take part in the photo contest can submit their entries in electronic and
A4-size format, no less than 10 photos, from March 20 st to April 20 st at the following address:
#20, Gen. Kvinitadze St., Ministry of Defence of Georgia; To Public Affairs Department, for Photo
Contest «My Soldier». tel: 91 06 45, 91 19 63.

fotokonkursi "Cemi jariskaci 2008"

PhotoContest “My Soldier 2008”
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саьарЫвелос
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