Deputy Head of the ECRML Secretariat, Joerg Horn and the project officer of the joint EU/CoE joint project “Civic Integration of National Minorities in Georgia and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages”, Mariam Tsikvadze met with the Advisor to the President of Georgia on Ethnic Minority Issues, Ms Sophio Shamanidi.

The aim of the meeting was to discuss the future cooperation initiatives. Parties have discussed issues related to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the problems related education (teaching of Georgian and mother languages) of national minorities.  As noted by Ms Shamanidi, even though the Ministry of Education has set up a program of teaching minority languages, the problems related to the minority language textbooks and teacher training programs still remain unsolved.

The parties thanked each other for the fruitful cooperation and expressed a willingness for further collaboration.