Twenty-six Georgian companies have featured at the largest food exhibition in Dubai – Gulfood 2024 with the support of Enterprise Georgia, the state agency promoting entrepreneurship, investment and exports, the agency said on Friday, Azernews reports, Agenda.
Day: February 24, 2024
The Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Armenia has refuted the report by the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan claiming that on February 24, at around 12:45 p.m., units of the Armenian Armed Forces allegedly fired towards Azerbaijani positions in the eastern part of the border.
Simultaneously, the Armenian Defense Ministry informs that at approximately 12:30 p.m., units of the Azerbaijani armed forces opened fire at Armenian combat positions near Verin Shorzha in Gegharkunik region. The fire was directed towards the Armenian positions from the Azerbaijani position located at the following coordinates:
40 °05’31.68″ N,
45 °52’51.44″ E.
On February 24, the Khatai District Court extended the arrest period for another 3 months (until May 29) for journalist Nargiz Absalamova, who was detained in a criminal case against employees of the online publication Abzas-Media.
Her lawyer, Rovshana Rahimli, said that the prosecution based its arguments for extending the…
On February 24, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced that the plans to demolish the Central Republican Hospital have been revoked in accordance with the demands of the doctors who have been protesting for a month against the new project of the hospital and its reorganization. Kobakhidze said that in the next few months a new project will be developed to build the new hospital at the back of the current one and privatize the front of the territory to keep it open for investment.
The decision was made after a meeting between the Prime Minister, the leader of the parliamentary majority Mamuka Mdinaradze, the Minister of Health Zurab Azarashvili and the medical staff. Speaking at a press conference after the meeting, Kobakhidze said that for the time being the hospital will continue to function as usual and the process of demolition will begin only when the new hospital is built behind the existing one, in about 3 years. Notably, the process of reorganization will also stop.
The staff of the N. Kipshidze Central University Clinic of the Tbilisi State Medical University, one of the largest medical institutions in Georgia and commonly referred to as the Central Republican Hospital, has been protesting at the Ministry of Health against the government’s decision to demolish the hospital and reorganize the medical staff. The protest has been going on for a month, and the protesters were demanding that the government’s decision to demolish the hospital be revoked. Overwhelming majority rejected the hefty compensation plans proposed by the Ministry of Health.