President Leonid Kuchma signed the Decree "On Holding the Year of Georgia in Ukraine." This was reported to "proUA" by the press service of the head of state.\n\nAccording to the press service information, the president issued a decree on holding the Year of Georgia in Ukraine in 2005 "with the aim of activating cooperation, strengthening ties between Ukraine and Georgia in the economic and humanitarian spheres and to fulfill the agreements reached during the meetings of Leonid Kuchma with the President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili."\n\nAccording to the decree, Kuchma instructed the Cabinet of Ministers within a one-month period to create an Organizational Committee for the preparation and holding of the Year of Georgia, to appoint its head and composition. The government and the Organizing Committee must develop and agree with the Georgian side a plan of measures for holding the Year of Georgia.\n\nThe president also obligated the Cabinet of Ministers and local state administrations to ensure the implementation of these measures and to resolve the issue of their financing.\n\nThe State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting was instructed by the president to organize broad coverage in the media of the measures for holding the Year of Georgia in Ukraine.\n\nAs reported, on Friday, October 15, during a chat conference on "proUA," answering readers' questions about whether the Embassy plans to hold concerts of popular Georgian performers in Ukraine, the Ambassador of Georgia to Ukraine Grigol Katamadze replied that there is a fundamental "agreement between the presidents of the two countries to hold the Year of Georgia in Ukraine in 2005."