Salary increases in the public sector will continue, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced at today’s government meeting.

“To fully rule out and close the field for speculation, both internal and external, we sent an invitation to OSCE/ODIHR, and we are confident they will arrive,” said Levan Machavariani, first deputy chairman of the Georgian Dream faction, in response to a question about the Georgian authorities’ invitation to the OSCE/ODIHR mission for the October 4 elections.

As stated in the announcement published on the official Facebook page of the President of Georgia, despite various circumstances, the president made this decision so that no one could claim that the local self-government elections are being held under conditions of limited competitiveness.

“The public should know that pranksters — people who make phone calls with the purpose of spreading disinformation — called the former head of USAID and received an admission from him that the billions, which the new U.S. administration speaks about, were spent in order to manage processes. These processes were political in nature, aimed at specific tasks, and these tasks implied rather serious consequences,” said the First Deputy Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, Giorgi Volski.

Head of the State Security Service Anri Okhanashvili has resigned. His resignation statement was published on the agency’s official Facebook page. Okhanashvili said that he made the decision to step down after consultations with the ruling team. He also noted that he will take the position of Advisor to the Prime Minister of Georgia on National Security Issues.

The high-stakes summit between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin began with a warm welcome and a flyover by screaming jets at a US military base in Alaska but ended with a thud Friday after they conceded that they had failed to reach any agreements on how to end the Russia-Ukraine war. 

It has been 33 years since the outbreak of hostilities in Abkhazia.

The official visit of the President of Georgia to the Republic of Turkey has begun. Mikheil Kavelashvili is in Ankara together with his wife.

President of Georgia Mikheil Kavelashvili, together with Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili, Minister of Defense Irakli Chikovani, members of the government, and the Commander of the Defense Forces, Lieutenant General Giorgi Matiashvili, honored the memory of Georgian servicemen heroically killed on August 11, 2008, near the village of Shindisi, and laid a wreath at the memorial.

“Georgia welcomes this historic moment for Armenia, Azerbaijan, the region, and the entire world,” wrote the Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Kobakhidze, on the social network X.

Representatives of the United National Movement — Iakobashvili, Lomaia, and others — said that they had conducted military operations against separatists and thanked Russia, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told journalists.

Representatives of the United National Movement — Iakobashvili, Lomaia, and others — said that they had conducted military operations against separatists and thanked Russia, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told journalists.

Representatives of the United National Movement — Iakobashvili, Lomaia, and others — said that they had conducted military operations against separatists and thanked Russia, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told journalists.

“Labeling opponents as pro-Russian in various countries is a well-practiced tactic of the so-called ‘deep state’. For this purpose, it uses its most effective tool — the media, which in Europe is almost entirely under the total control and censorship of the ‘deep state’,” wrote Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on social media.

Within the framework of the Dubrovnik Forum, a meeting took place between the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Maka Bochorishvili, and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Kairat Abdrakhmanov.

Giorgi Gakharia, leader of the Gakharia for Georgia party is attending the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Congress in Germany.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia has released a statement regarding the 64th round of the Geneva International Discussions.

Work on the new stadium project is ongoing, and we expect construction to begin in September, said Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze during his annual address to parliament.

Opposition politician Nika Melia, co-founder of the "Akhali" party and one of the leaders of the "Coalition for Change," has been sentenced to seven months in prison for failing to appear before a parliamentary investigative commission probing the actions of the previous government.

The Chairman of the Georgian Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, commented on today’s debates in the European Parliament regarding the case of Mzia Amazgolbeli and media freedom, as well as on the draft of an alternative resolution.

“In my opinion, Kakha Kaladze’s candidacy for the position of Tbilisi Mayor is unequivocally unchallengeable — this is the stance I have repeatedly expressed,” Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told the media.

U.S. President Donald Trump believes that the Ukrainian authorities, by carrying out Operation “Web,” gave Russia a pretext to strike Ukrainian territory on the night of June 6. The politician made this statement in an interview with journalists aboard Air Force One.

“Georgia has endured four wars in the past 35 years, so we deeply understand the value of peace. We are doing everything possible to strengthen and maintain peace in our country—and we are doing it quite successfully,” said Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze during his address at the Tbilisi Regional Forum on Sustainable Development.

“When we applied for candidate status and signed the Association Agreement, we ordered European standards and European justice, but what did we get? We got European hatred, European violence, and European propaganda because they identify themselves with hatred, violence, and propaganda,” Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili declared on the GPB First Channel program Topic of the Day.

“Bidzina Ivanishvili has refused to meet with Ambassador Robin Dunnigan to hear a message from the Trump Administration,” the U.S. Embassy in Georgia issued a statement.