Today, on the 4^th of April at the Georgian National Museum the Memorandum on Cooperation has been signed between the chairman of the State Agency for Religious Issues Zaza Vashakmadze and the director of the Georgian National Museum Davit Lortkipanidze

Today at the Administration of the Government of Georgia a meeting between the chairman of the State Agency for Religious Issues Zaza Vashakmadze and the head of the Islamic Culture and Relations Organization Dr. Abuzar Ebrahimi Torkaman has been held. The meeting was attended by the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Georgia H.E Seyed Javad Ghavam Shahidi. Zaza Vashakmadze introduced the guest 

On the 28^th of March the chairman of the State Agency for Religious Issues Zaza Vashakmadze met with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Estonia to Georgia Ms. Kai Kaarelson.

Zaza Vashakmadze thanked the newly appointed ambassador as a representative of a friend and partner country, for the support of Georgia and wished her success in future activities.

The chairman of the State Agency for Religious Issues Zaza Vashakmadze visited the newly repaired central mosque in Khelvachauri, where he met with Beglar Kamashidze, Mufti of all Georgia, the local muslim clergy and the parish. Zaza Vashakmadze spoke with the representatives of the local Muslim community, interested in their problems and congratulated them on the opening of a newly repaired mosque.

The chairman of the State Agency for Religious Issues Zaza Vashakmadze visited Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University. Marking the 100^th anniversary of the restoration of autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church the chairman of the agency delivered a public lecture at the university. The topic of the lecture was religious policy existing in Georgia, and the

Today, on the 23^rd of March, academic conference dedicated to the 100^th anniversary of restoration of autocephaly of the Georgian Orthodox Church was held at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Especially for this day, at the first building of TSU the exhibition – “Autocephaly 100” has been opened where unique ecclesiastical publications, unique archival manuscripts preserved at the University library and Museum were exposed which documentary reflected the process of restoration of autocephaly of th

The chairman of the State Agency for Religious Issues Zaza Vashakmadze received Iran’s clerical delegation headed by the supreme leader of Tehran Ayatollah Kazem Seddiqi at the Administration of the Government of Georgia.

The chairman of the agency introduced the guests the issues of cooperation with the Muslim community and the decisions made by the state as well as the state religious policy and agency’s activities. Zaza Vashakmadze 

On the 20^th of March the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia received religious leader of Tehran Ayatollah Kazem Seddiqi and Iran’s clerical delegation.

The Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia in order to further strengthen the relations between the two nations and two religions called this visit important and noted that despite religious or ideological differences Georgia had always been a peacemaker for different religious people living in Georgia and the Muslim community is an integral part of multinational Georgian society: “We are the citizens of 

Ayatollah Seddiqi a religious leader of Tehran visited Georgia. On the initiative of the State Agency for Religious Issues and the direct participation of the Embassy of Iran Ayatollah Seddiqi met with the Metropolitan Giorgi (Jamdeliani) of Marneuli and Hujabi Eparchy. At the meeting they spoke about religious and ethnic relations in Marneuli. They noted that in Georgia, including multiethnic Marneuli Muslims, Christians and the representatives of other religious communities have peaceful and friendly traditions and they continue it suitably. The Metropolitan Giorgi was pleased to host such a high-ranking guest, as such kind of meetings