Requiem on Shevardnadze will continue in the Sameba Cathedral
Magee, Kikaleyshvili. Farewell ceremony with ex-Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze, who died on the first day of the week at the age of 86 years, will continue in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity (Trinity) on the last working day of the week and Saturday. On Sunday, July 13, will be held his funeral.
The former head of Georgia and the last foreign Minister of the USSR Eduard Shevardnadze has died after a long illness on the first day of the week in Tbilisi in Krtsanisi residence, where He lived the last years. Where passed civil funeral 9 and 10 numbers.
on the last working day of week 12. 00 his body will be brought to the Cathedral, where, at 18. 00 will begin the official farewell Ceremony.
according to the interior Ministry of Georgia, the traffic will be limited on the streets of Tbilisi on the last working day of the week for a couple of hours because of the mourning procession which will follow from the Krtsanisi residence in the Cathedral.
during the first 2 days in Krtsanisi residence was visited by hundreds of people came to say goodbye to former President. Among them politicians, cultural figures, foreign employees of foreign Affairs and ordinary citizens.
The flow of people willing to say goodbye to Shevardnadze, was not stopped. Before the entrance to the residence even formed a small place, patrol and law enforcement authorities had to introduce limits on the movement of vehicles on the way to the residence by reason of a large number of people arriving.
the warmest words he remembers, the Plenipotentiaries of the current authorities, echoed about died as a politician of great rank and great man. The first came to sympathize with the head Giorgi Margvelashvili, then Minister of foreign Affairs of Georgia, the Chairman of the Parliament, the MPs of the parliamentary majority, the Ministers, the Ambassador of the USA in Georgia and others.
Thus it is almost impossible to notice Among the mourning of the death of Shevardnadze authorized former ruling party " United national movement ". It is this party headed by Mikhail Saakashvili overthrew Shevardnadze from office in 2003 and came to power. But Saakashvili himself, who became President after the early resignation of Shevardnadze, one of the first expressed condolences on the question of his death. Although He was not without opponents and remembered how Shevardnadze some time ago supported fresh Georgian government, which came on the results of elections to the Parliament in October 2012. Shevardnadze appealed to the new authorities with a demand to deprive of freedom of supporters of Saakashvili and members of his party.
Condolences on the death of Shevardnadze has already expressed foreign policy. Among them political figures of Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Turkey, Belarus, USA and others.
Russian politicians were among the first to respond to the death of Eduard Shevardnadze. His Condolences were expressed by the head of the Russian Federation centuries Putin and former President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev called Shevardnadze " the true and perfect representative of the Georgian people, and a very talented politician ".
The Georgian foreign Ministry recently sent out foreign politicians and international organizations of the invitation at the mourning ceremony. At this point in time it is known that Among the guests will be Former U.S. Secretary of state James Baker, Former foreign Minister of Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher, the head of the Azerbaijani Parliament oktay Asadov, head of the Armenian Parliament Galust Sahakyan, the Federal Minister of justice of Austria brandstaetter, Deputy foreign Minister of Japan Takao Mackinaw, the Former head of Estonia, Arnold Ruutel, the Former head of Kyrgyzstan Roza Otunbayeva.
The tenth of July we opened a book of Condolences on the death of Shevardnadze at the diplomatic missions of Georgia abroad. Thus, according to official Tbilisi, " the book of condolences opened on the territory of the Russian Federation due to the absence of diplomatic relations." Tbilisi broke diplomatic relations with Moscow after the war in August 2008 and Russia's recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
The Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili, though not have come at a memorial service in Kazanskoi residence, But immediately released a letter with regret about the death of the former President and created a special state Commission on organizing the funerals. All Expenses also took on his own shoulders of the government. The costs of the funeral arrangements also took on his own shoulders the authorities.
The final conclusion about the place, where will be located the tomb of Shevardnadze, was announced only on the next day after his death. He will be buried on site, next to his wife on July 13.
according to the Georgian foreign Ministry, in all diplomatic missions abroad on the day of his funeral will be flown at half-mast flags.
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