Subject: WNTD
From: "IVANUSA, Marijan" <[email-masked]>
To: Sopo Belkania
Cc: GVINIANIDZE, Kakha <[email-masked]>;
Date: Tue, 22 May 2018 13:12:54 +0000

Dear Sopo,

We plan a short event marking the World No Tobacco Day 2018 for Wednesday, 31 May.

The event will take place in the city center (we are still negotiating the place with some hotels).

We have been informed that he minister has been invited to several other events and for him it could be difficult to attend all of them, particularly in the morning.

We will send formal letter of invitation, but would like to check informally his availability before fixing the time, so we can maximally adapt to his availability.

In case he would be absolutely not available, we would appreciate if the ministry could be represented by other high level official.

The programme looks like follows:

Introduction and key speeches

Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs:

Implementation of the tobacco control legislation in Georgia

Ministry of Internal Affairs:

Enforcement of smoke free regulations by the MIA

Municipality of Tbilisi:

Enforcement of TAPS ban in Tbilisi Municipality

Tobacco Breaks Hearts

World No Tobacco Days

Kakha Gvinianidze

WHO Country Office Georgia

Short Reflections from the audience and Discussion

Amiran Gamkrelidze

Director General of the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health

Ministry of Finance

George Bakhturidze

Head of Tobacco Control Alliance

WNTD 2018 Award Ceremony

Marijan Ivanusa

Representative of WHO in Georgia

Akaki Zoidze, Awardee of WNTD 2018

Head of the Committee of Healthcare and Social Issues of the Parliament of Georgia

At the end of the event we will give a World No Tobacco Day award to Dr Zoidze.

In total the program shall last less than 90 minutes and will be followed by a short reception.

Initial idea was to start the session either at 12.00 or 14.00, but this depends on the availability of the minister.

If needed, we can help with some initial talking points.

We kindly ask for your guidance, before finalizing the programme and sending him formal invitation.

Thank you and best regards,

Marijan Ivanusa

WHO Representative

Head of WHO Country Office Georgia

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