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GEORGIA TODAY
FEBRUARY 11 - 13, 2020
@entrepreneur.ge Gamarjoba! I’m the Editor-in-Chief of the Georgian edition of Entrepreneur magazine and I’m here to share the top weekly Entrepreneurial news with you:
Ex-Prosecutor General Again Selected for the Post BY ANA DUMBADZE
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he Prosecutorial Council has selected Irakli Shotadze's candidacy for the position of the Prosecutor General of Georgia. He received 11 out of a total 12 votes. The Council will submit the candidate elected through a secret ballot to the Parliament of Georgia for approval. The Council held individual interviews with the candidates on February 6 and selected four for the post, including the former Prosecutor General of Georgia. The three other candidates were Sophio Shengelia, Valerian Vacharadze and Dariko Tordia. Shotadze received 11 votes, Shengelia - 9 votes, Vacharadze - 8 votes and Tordia - 7 votes from 12 members of the Council. Ex-Prosecutor General, lawyer Irakli Shotadze, resigned on May 31, 2018, amid protests over the high-profile “Khorava
Street” murder case involving teenagers. Recently, he was again nominated for the vacant position of Prosecutor General of Georgia by the LEPL Georgian Technical University.
During an interview, Shotadze noted that it was not easy for him to decide to participate in the competition and that the decision was made after much consideration.
Georgia Rapidly Expands Export to Countries with Free Trade Agreement BY ANA DUMBADZE
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n 2019, the net export reached a historic high of $2.35 billion, which is 62.3% of the total export,- Deputy Minister of Economy Genadi Arveladze said at a meeting with media representatives on DCFTA matters. He noted that the greatest share of net export is distributed to countries with
a free trade agreement, which proves that decisions about the free trade agreements were right. "Georgia exports 87% of net export to countries with whom it has free trade agreements: the choice to make said agreements was the right one," he said. The Deputy Minister added that in 2019, the most significant shares of domestic export were distributed among the following countries: The Commonwealth of Independent
States (CIS) – 36.4% The European Union – 31.3% China – 8.8% Turkey – 8% Georgia's net export to China in 2014 was 1.2%, which increased to 8.8% in 2019. Georgia's net export to the EU rose from 22% to 31% in 2019. The above information was released by the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia.