From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 2002 in Georgia (country)
2002 in Georgia (country)
Years in Georgia 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 • August 19 – President of Georgia Eduard
(country):
(country): Shevardnadze announces the start of an all-out
“anti-criminal and counterterrorist operation” in
Centuries:
Centuries: 20th Century · 21st century · 22nd century
the Pankisi Gorge.
Decades:
Decades: 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s • August 23 – Russian fighter jets bomb the Georgian
villages bordering Chechnya, killing one and injuring
Years:
Years: 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
several civilians; the OSCE Observers Mission to
Georgia officially confirms the fact, but the Russian
Incumbents authorities reject it.
• October 14 – President Shevardnadze and Patriarch
• President of Georgia: Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia Ilia II sign a constitutional agreement
• State Minister: Avtandil Jorbenadze between the state and the Georgian Orthodox
• Chairperson of the Parliament: Nino Burjanadze Church at the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta.
• November 22 – President Shevardnadze makes an
Events official bid for NATO accession at the Euro-Atlantic
Partnership Council session in Prague.
• January 15 – Georgian police forces under the • December 3 – Georgia ratifies the construction of the
personal supervision of Interior Minister Koba Baku–Tbilisi–Ceyhan pipeline.
Narchemashvili launch the first phase of anti-
criminal operation in the Pankisi Gorge in Georgia’s
border with Chechnya. Deaths
• March 2 – Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia helds • February 25 – Nugzar Sajaia, Georgian National
parliamentary election, not recognized by the Security Council secretary (born 1942); suicide.
international community as legal. • May 19 – Otar Lordkipanidze, archaeologist and
• April 2 – Georgia agrees to withdraw its Defense anthropologist (born 1930), natural causes.
Ministry troops from Kodori Gorge, the only part of • December 19 – Kote Makharadze, a popular actor and
Abkhazia more or less under the control of Georgia. sportscaster (born 1925); cerebrovascular disease.
• April 25 – A magnitude 6.2 earthquake strikes • November 20 – Kakhi Asatiani, businessman and
Georgia’s capital Tbilisi killing at least five and former soccer star (born 1947); assassinated.
damaging parts of the city’s historical center.
• May 27 – The United States-sponsored Train-and-
Equip program launched in the Georgian armed References
forces. • Timeline 2002. Civil Georgia. Accessed on February 11,
• June 2 – Georgia helds the second local self- 2008.
governance elections.
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