Today, Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgian President presented the annual report to Supreme Legislative Body at the spring session.President’s appeal concerned to the existing condition in the country, provokes against Georgia, government’s activities, future priorities and aims.
"Georgia is facing a big national challenge today. Georgia cannot afford the luxury to have several priorities, today, we have one and the main priority – recovering the economy, providing jobs and increasing employment”, - stated Mikheil Saakashvili.
Georgian President stated that according to the data of international currency fund and the world leading economic experts, Georgia has a chance to appear in those ten  countries, which will be incurred by the world economical crisis less of all.
"We shall have to fight, that is fight for save the economics, keeping the jobs, struggle against the poverty and we should keep unity and stability”, - stated Mikheil Saakashvili.
According to Georgian President, the government has a three-point plan that considers foreign businessmen’s support, investment of the state in such projects, which will strengthen the economics and attraction of the foreign investments. According to the president, state should implement everything that with the public’s support. He added that the state should become an investor itself and create the jobs.
President thinks that three-point plan is not enough for overcoming the existing economical difficulties in the country that compels people "to tighten the belts”. Though, as the president stated, "to tighten the belts” concerns him as well. That’s why he decided to turn the Presidential residence in Tserovani into the Kindergarten to hand it to the IDPs settled there. Besides, Presidential residences located in the centre of Zugdidi and Batumi will be prepared for sale in the nearest future. As the president of Georgia stated the money saved in this way will be spent on implementation of ‘cheap loans’ project and on expansion of healthcare programs.
President talked about IDPs’ condition as well. "Our special pain is IDPs’ condition. We shall do everything to create human conditions for living and working”, - stated Mikheil Saakashvili.
According to the president, each IDP will get about 1 hectare land area in property and necessary seeds.
"Until Georgia is not unite and all IDPs do not return to their homes, one of the priorities for Georgian government will be their social support”, - stated Saakashvili.
The president extensively talked about increasing teachers' salaries, which will be gradually increased with GEL 25. Besides, financing of teachers’ medical insurance is increased with 19 mln. GEL.
Mikheil Saakashvili explained, regardless of the Russian aggression and the global financial crisis, the projects of cheap credits and constructing agriculture enterprises will be kept on. Furthermore, a new program - "Money to All Villages"- will be launched. GEL 20 million will be equally shared to all the villages. 
President talked about the role of Georgian business in the country and noted – "Today, the businessmen are in a hard condition on the background of the world crisis, but in spite of that, they do not stop investment and providing the jobs. They try to find new possibilities and keep economical stability”. "The whole government is in your service, we understand how important your success is for our people and better Georgia”, - Mikheil Saakashvili appealed to the businessmen.
President paid his attention to international relationship and country’s safety. According to him, Georgia is before foreign political provokes. Big and danger enemy opposes Georgia, which does not recognize the international law and tries to drive the international organizations out of Georgia not to have the estimator of its evil.
"They killed our soldiers, policemen, destroyed the towns. They build the military basis in Abkhazia and so called South Ossetia. The aim of the enemy is to smash Georgia to peaces and disappear it from the map”,-stated Mikheil Saakashvili. According to him, Georgian population and government owe unity, as the enemy should not achieve its goal.
Mikheil Saakashvili stated that a few days ago, Munich summit showed that support to Georgia is steady. He touched the relation to Russia as well.
Mikheil Saakashvili noted that Georgia will regulate the relationship with Russia when Russia accepts and recognizes the fact that Georgia has the right to be independent and sovereignty country. According to the statement of Georgian President, today the most essential is the country to maintain stability and unity, and not to digress from the chosen course.
"Nor we, nor all civilized world will adapt to divide Georgia into pieces. Empires always fail and will fail. Abkhazia and Tskhinvali will return to the homeland’, - stated President.
The president addressed people from the tribune. He said, he and the whole government care about people; he has not forgotten any promise given to the people and they will be accomplished soon.The president has also noted that the main enemy is hopelessness and apathy and if we don’t surrender to this enemy, we will defeat all the other ones.
After the president’s report, he stayed in the parliament to answer his opponents` questions. The question were painful that concerned social problems, employ and unemployment topics, human rights defense, media and court freedom, Georgia-Russia war and the country’s security. Representatives of the opposition offered a few initiatives to the president.
Independent MP Jondi Baghaturia left the session of Parliament to voice his protest.
As Jondi Baghaturia stated he was not given the right to hold 5-minute-speech. The MP stressed that the fact is the violation of the regulations and added that since the President does not wish to listen to the truth he leaves the session.
George Akhvlediani, Leader of Faction “Christian-Democrats” estimated the president’s speech and put a few concrete questions to him. He was interested if the government is going to register unemployed, to establish aid for them and to solve the other problems regarding unemployment.
“I would like to know if the government really knows how many unemployment people are in the country. The government proves that level of unemployment is more than 14%, though we all know that it is not a real index”, - stated George Akhvlediani.
George Akhvlediani stated that a memorandum on Engury Hydro electro station is formed with the occupant and it should not be covered and secret for the public.
According to him, devaluation of democrat values had happened during last years in Georgia and gave as examples the events of November 7, condition regarding the word freedom and vagueness regarding the owner of TV Company “Imedi”.
“I cannot agree the president, who says that the possibility of holding the briefing is a word freedom. I would like to know, do you really think that this is the word freedom?!”, - George Akhvlediani appealed to the president.
Guram Chakhvadze, Member of “National Democratic Party” noted that the state is obliged to defense the citizens’ security and create a peaceful environment for them. According to him, there is violated the principle of control and balance between separate branches of the government and exactly, that is the main danger for stability.
As Gia Tortladze, Chairman of faction “Powerful Georgia” stated, justice should be restored inside of the country to restore justice towards Georgia.
According to him, the judges should be freed from the political press. And what about the IDPs, many things were done for them during last period, though the problems still exist. Gia Tortladze noted that Government should not forget Abkhazian IDPs, who are in a very hard condition today.
Tortladze talked also about the business sectors and noted that sphere should be freed from the political press and everything should be done for that the businessmen and investors do not take their amount out of the country and continue investment in the country.
Gia Tortladze, Chairman of faction “Powerful Georgia” raised an initiative on setting up the “Press House”. According to him, the above mentioned will support the activity of media.
Gia Tortladze appealed to the Ministry of Justice with a question, why the instance does not suit against the separatist regime and their leaders, Sergei Baghabsh and Edward Kokoiti.
“It is very difficult to criticize those initiatives that we heard today in the president’s speech”, - stated George Gabashvili, Member of faction “Nationalists”.
According to him, that concerns the insurance system and a new insurance initiative, according to which, the citizen will be able to get an accessible insurance.
Besides, Gabashvili estimates the increasing of pensions and teachers’ salaries positively, also he noted that for 2010, the problem of communal numerators will be finished and all subscribers will pay the sum spent by them individually.
Besides, George Gabashvili stated that there is not a problem of the word freedom in the country and today, everyone can hear tendentious, objective or any other kind of views in Georgia.
According to him, talk about the monopolies form the opposition is late for minimum 6 years, as everyone remembers that there was only one vine-maker, one insurer and one benziner in the country.
And what about Engury Hydro electric station, the memorandum is formed not with the occupant, but with the Russian company.
Giorgi Targamadze, the leader of ‘Christian-Democrats’ and minority opposition talked over the jeopardy the press is facing today.
As Targamadze remarked the editors of the leading newspapers addressed to him. ‘It concerns the scheme organized under the ‘umbrella ‘of outdoor trade –which will constitute serous dander to newspaper distribution and selling’ – Giorgi Targamadze noted and asked President of Georgia to fix his position regarding the issue.
As for the media freedom, the leader of the opposition stressed that the progress is to be noticed in this direction in the last period; however, Giorgi Targamadze stressed that the political independence of editorial offices still remains to be a problem.
According to Petre Tsiskarishvili, Majority Leader, there was a successive policy in the president’s report and there was talk about the concrete affair in his speech.

“President and parliamentary majority are not here for arranging a show here, we are here for doing the job, and we are successive. The main one is that the direction, which the government has is right – that is de-occupation of our lands, economical stimulation. If Georgia is able to become stronger as democracy point of view, as stabile politically and at the same time there will be the international friendship principle policy towards Russia, then the occupant will be constrained to perform our lands’ de-occupation itself”, - stated Petre Tsiskarishvili at parliament. 

Tsiskarishvili also noted that majority is ready to have conversation about the country’s future with any opponent. 

Petre Tsiskarishvili, Leader of Parliamentary Majority appealed to the president not to turn the last year precedent regarding elections before term into a rule”. “Investors play an important role for economical development of Georgia, but they are interested in political stability in the country, a decision regarding the elections should be taken hence the country’s interests and not concrete political parties’ interests. Economics need a stability and those people, who perform an important role in economic development in the country – a prognostic political condition”, - stated Petre Tsiskarishvili.

After the statements of Factions Chairmen, majority and minority leaders, Georgian President made a conclusive speech before the parliament and agreed some initiatives presented by the opposition.

“I would like to tell that is highest quality parliamentary debates that I have ever seen in Georgian parliament. That is a mark of that we did not make a mistake, when we chose that way”, - stated Mikheil Saakashvili.

According to the president, he is obliged to be a realist and to the truth to the people. Georgian President did not agree George Akhvlediani’s, Member of “Christian-Democrats” initiative on setting up a new governmental instance. “When it is talk on “tightening the belts”, setting up a new instance is an oppositional event. There was an anti-monopoly service in Georgia, though, there was a monopoly, an employ service, but there was no employ’, - stated the president.

President shared the worry of the opposition on raising the drugs’ price and stated that the government had already begun working on that issue. The president approved the Christian-Democrats’ initiative on the reform on conception of national security.

Mikheil Saakashvili did not agree the consideration of opponents on media freedom, though added: “I will be happy, if media is more competent, freer and more responsibility in Georgia”. According to him, there is not time, when on any channel, any of the oppositioners does not criticize the government and that is the best test for media’s freedom estimation.

Georgian President stated that Georgian government reached that Georgia is lighted up.
‘The fact that our energy system is steady and stabile is the result of the modern energy policy. Our enemy strives to see Georgia in dark.’-Mikheil Saakashvili stated in his conclusive speech held at Parliament.
Mikheil Saakashvili alluded to the memorandum signed with Enguri Energy “Plant Station and noted that the agreement is not final and added that Government is ready to let the opposition to participate in the process of working on the agreement.

Georgian President concerned August war as well. Here there was said “defeated war”. Defeated or winner in the war is cleared up, when the war is finished. Nothing is finished in Georgia and let’s not deceive ourselves. There is defeated in the war, when there is winner in it. Do you want to tell me that Russia is winner in that war?”- President appealed to the opposition.

“Today, Georgian parliament passed an exam, that was called political debates really at a high level”, - stated David Bakradze, Parliament Speaker after the debates.

Before the president’s annual report, Georgian parliament has discussed and voted several questions. Among them was the bill on amendments to the Georgian law on “Parliamentary Groups of Friendship”, which considers the amendments in leadership of Parliamentary Groups of Friendship. New staff was defined in the following:

Tamaz Petriashvili Head of Parliamentary Group of Friendship with Cyprus, George Kandelaki – Head of Parliamentary Group of Friendship with Ireland, Chiora Taktakishvili - Head of Parliamentary Group of Friendship with Belgium, Koba Khabazi - Head of Parliamentary Group of Friendship with China, David Darchiashvili – Head of Parliamentary Group of Friendship with Ukraine.

Amendments were made regarding several members of the group as well. Paata Davitaia will work in Parliamentary Group of Friendship with Japan and David Bezhuashvili – in Parliamentary Group of Friendship with Greece, Koba Khabazi in - Parliamentary Group of Friendship with Ukraine.