Anti-Crisis Council presents report

On July 20 the Anti-Crisis Council presented a report of the work it has undertaken over the last six months. Its Chair Giorgi Tortladze assessed its work positively and stated that leading members of the Government of Georgia and experts took part in the sitting. The members of the Council mainly discussed the problems of IDPs, judiciary reform, constitutional changes and the new Tax Code.

Giorgi Tortladze said that the experts have monitored the situation of the IDPs in compact settlements periodically. Although the majority of the IDPs have positively assessed the activities undertaken by the Government in such a short time period, they justly raised a number of issues which remain unresolved, making ordinary life difficult. "We received information from a corresponding agency and a detailed plan for how the requirements of the IDPs will be met, which we permanently monitor,” Giorgi Tortladze stated.

Tortladze said that 1,026 letters have been received by the Council since January, 584 of which were sent on to the Government for a response, 323 having been responded to to date. He added that the monitoring of the effectiveness of the spending of the 4.5 billion USD allocated at the October 2008 Brussels Donor Conference was the key activity of the Council.

At the session Giorgi Targamadze demanded detailed information about the money spent from the funds. The Anti Crisis Council will hold one more sitting in July and may hold an extraordinary one in August.