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        1. Despite Georgia's appalling record on religious tolerance for the last few years, I hope President Shevardnadze's speech at the Baptist church signals a new.
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        3. President Bush should raise Georgia's deteriorating human rights situation with President Eduard Shevardnadze, Human Rights Watch said today.
        4. In , supported by Russia, he was hailed by his people as the savior of Georgia and was later bolstered by the United States.

          5. Georgia: Church and State in tight embrace

          IWPR – 17 October 2002 – Early one morning this week, President Eduard Shevardnadze and Patriarch Ilya II met in the Svetitskhoveli cathedral in the old Georgian capital of Mtskheta to sign a formal agreement binding church and state more closely together.

          The accord, signed on October 14, is the second most important constitutional document in Georgia after the constitution itself and confirms the already privileged place of the Georgian Orthodox Church in the country.

          The two sides chose the day of the festival of the Protecting Veil of the Virgin Mary for the ceremony.

          But by doing so they managed to offend large number of the faithful in Mtskheta. Ordinary churchgoers had to cross police cordons to make their way to the festival service in the cathedral and many were angry at the unexpected appearance of large numbers of government officials.

          The large crowds gathered outside the cathedral were told that they had to wa