What investment climate offers Georgia to attract foreign businessmen?
Doing business in Georgia is rather easier than in other post Soviet countries or in our neighbor country. The executive system is not so complicated and the administrative barriers like licensing or etc has been reduced dramatically so life is getting easier and easier every day. We used to have 900 licenses and we reduced them to 150, we do not have 75 ministries as our neighbors do, we have quite mobilized government. Sure we have problems but that is normal for a transitional country, but if you take into consideration the potential of Georgia regarding communications, tourism, agriculture you will guess that the situation will be further improved very soon. Q: You talked about investment possibilities, what is the strategy of the federation to contribute to the investments in the country? A: We are helping local businesses to develop. For example to speak about agriculture we supported the creation of fruit refinery factories here. Georgia is famous for its fruits like apple, mand