IDPs Vacated Hotel in Central Tbilisi

The drying laundry on balconies of hotel Iveria appeared in 1993, when up to 230 IDP families occupied the building.

Georgian internal displaced persons from Abkhazia vacated hotel Iveria in the center of Tbilisi on September 7, after the investor, which bought the building, paid compensation of USD 7,000 to each family living in the hotel since 1993, when they were forced to flee from Abkhazia.

President Saakashvili, who visited already empty hotel on September 7, told reporters that the authorities kept their promise and all the IDP families were paid compensations to buy an apartment in the suburb of Tbilisi.

President Saakashvili said “a new and beautiful” hotel will be constructed to replace a Soviet-era Iveria hotel by the new investor, which is the Kempinski Hotels & Resorts company.

Mikheil Saakashvili also said that the Republic Square, where the hotel Iveria is located, will be “totally reconstructed by the end of 2006.”

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