Human rights should be protected on one hand, and traditional values, spiritual-cultural and intellectual potential needs to develop, care for territorial integrity and faith has to be strengthen so that the country responds to time challenges correctly, on the other hand – Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II stated in his welcoming speech to Holy Synod sitting.
Patriarch also underlined the importance of 100th anniversary of establishment of First Democratic Republic of Georgia.