The organization “Young Barristers” met the Head of the Kobuleti Municipal Council, Sulkhan Oqropiridze, within the framworks of the Institutional Dialogue. The dialogue touched upon the issues of providing responsible and transparent self-governance , the defects in the process of self-governance due to the new Local Self-Government Code, ongoing and scheduled infrastructural projects of the district, local NGOs’ involvement in the process of self-governing, human resources policy, tourist environment . In addition, the organization expressed it’s interest in the issue of the local mortgage lenders, affected by the war of August 2008 and the municipality’s activities aiming at resolving the problem.
The “Young Barristers” appealed to the Head of the Kobuleti Municipal Council for supporting the project statement. According to the Chief-executive of the organization, Archil Kaikatsishvili, the organization represents a project, increasing social awareness of the municipal public school students. The project considers creation of the summer school, where the students will have opportunity to attend the seminars by recognized law specialist, regarding the issues of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and the essence and importance of civil rights and freedoms generally. An opening on the promotion of the idea of tolerance will be announced on the local level. The winners will be awarded.
As it has been stated by the Head of the Kobuleti Municipal Council, the Municipal Self Governance will support the initiatives of the organization, aiming at increasing local students’ civil awareness. In this record, the organization and the Municipality have agreed on the implementation of the joint future activities.