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According to officials, the deadline for fulfilment of all obligations under the investment agreement signed between the Government of Georgia and ADC has been postponed several times by the government since 2017.
2.4​ ​Protesters in Georgia give government ‘red card’
Mikheil Saakashvili’s United National Movement (UNM), its more moderate ally European Georgia and entrepreneur Mamuka Khazaradze’s newly founded Lelo Public Movement attended protest rallies in the proximity of the residence of President Bidzina Ivanishvili and in front of the parliament building on September 20​—the demonstrations came three months after similar protests against the government were aggressively dispersed by riot police.
Protesters in front of parliament on September 20 displayed ‘red cards’ aimed at ruling party Georgian Dream. As the organisers of the rally stated, the cards underlined the desire for Bidzina Ivanishvili’s party to leave the field.
"Show red cards to Ivanishvili because we are against the government. We show Ivanishvili a red card for things to end here," the organizers said.
Among the protesters was TBC Bank co-founder and backer of the Anaklia deep-water port flagship infrastructure project, Khazaradze, who, facing pressure from the authorities, is now a political activist as well.
“I am not going to cooperate with Mikheil Saakashvili,” Khazaradze, pushing his Lelo Public Movement, told reporters outside parliament when asked if he would cooperate with the former president, who is self-exiled in Ukraine.
Khazaradze earlier made a speech in which he said the June 20 police action amounted to a watershed moment that prompted him to decide to come out and join the protesters.
2.5​ ​Nato-Georgia Commission announces stronger Black Sea naval cooperation
The North Atlantic Council (NAC), the principal political decision-making body of Nato, held a meeting in Georgia’s coastal city of Batumi on October 3-4—the first such meeting held in a partner nation.
The meeting comes at a time when the tensions between Georgia and Russia, although diminishing from the peak reached in June-July, remain on an upward trend with the Russia-backed separatist regions boosting their military capacities with support from Moscow and taking hostile actions (borderisation) that harms among others civil population in the region.
Nato Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottmoller held a press conference as part of the event, highlighting the strengthening of the naval forces cooperation in the Black Sea.
Gottmoller said that Nato is concerned about Russian military reinforcement in the Black Sea region and that is why the Organisation is strengthening the cooperation with Georgia’s naval forces.
9​ GEORGIA Country Report​ November 2019 ​ ​www.intellinews.com