Zviad Gamsakhurdia’s birthday marked in Zugdidi Municipality

15:21, 31.03.2018

March 31 is the birthday of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgia’s First President and Leader of National-Liberation Movement in Georgia. He would have turned 79 today.

Mamuka Tsotseria, Chairman of Zugdidi Municipality Sakrebulo (City Assembly), members of City Council and members of local self-governance laid wreath at Gamsakhurdia’s monuments in Zugdidi, Darcheli and Jikhashkari.

On March 31, 1991 the Universal People’s Referendum was held in the Republic of Georgia, during which 98% of the population unanimously supported the country’s independence on the basis of the “Independence Act of 26 May 1918”.

On April 9, 1991 the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia adopted the “Act of Restoration of State Independence” on the basis of referendum results. Zviad Gamsakhurdia on the basis of the results of the referendum announced on April 9, 1991, declared independence of Georgia.

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