FIG President visits Georgia
Tbilisi, Georgia, 9-12 May 2006
Following the invitation of corporate member LKN Earth Research &
Consulting, the only one representative of surveying in Georgia in FIG,
President Prof. Magel has visited a country, in which survey
profession and education have faced and still face huge challenges and
transformation processes. LKN Director General Merab Nadaraia
emphasised the importance of FIG President's visit to Georgia, a country
which with support of many international agencies and donors has to build up
modern infrastructure and market economy mainly based on digitized cadastre
and registers. On this way and because Georgia is becoming more and more
globally oriented and connected, it is very important for Georgian surveyors
to get information and to share experiences with international community.
The membership in FIG has to be first priority for Georgian surveyors as
Merab Nadaraia confirmed in his discussions with President Magel. FIG
President promised full support in establishing an association of surveyors
on the way to become new member of FIG already at the Congress in Munich. At
a meeting with leading surveyors, universities and survey companies Prof.
Magel gave a very informative overview about goals, structure, output and
benefits of FIG. A test vote for joining a Georgian surveyors association
showed that all representatives are willing to jointly build up this new
bridge for surveyors from Caucasus region into the world!
LKN Director Nadaraia regarded the visit and given inputs of FIG
President as historic and expressed his strong intention to participate FIG
Congress in October with a considerable delegation.
On occasion of his official visit in Georgia President Magel was invited
to give a keynote speech at the UNECE WPLA Workshop on Institutional
Framework for Securing Real Property Rights in Tbilisi, which took place at
the same time on invitation of the National Agency of Public Registry (NAPR)
of Georgia. The umbrella UN committee of WPLA, the former Committee on Human
Settlements got recently a new broader orientation and title towards “Housing
and Land Management”. Magel addressed the 120 conference participants
from 25 countries that this should also have consequences for the goals and
strategies of WPLA as it is described in his keynote: “From
secure tenure towards urban and rural land management – about FIG’s role
serving the needs of politics and societies”.
- Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Holger Magel, President of FIG: From secure
tenure towards urban and rural land management - about FIG’s role serving
the needs of politics and societies. Presentation at the UNECE WPLA
Workshop on Institutional Framework for Securing Real Property Rights in
Tbilisi, Georgia 11 May 2006
FIG President
Magel on visit of Mtskheta, the birthplace of
Georgian Christianity and Identity together with corporate member LKN
General Director Merab Nadaraia (1. f. l.) and partner Prof. Joseph Salukvadze (2. f. l.) and LKN Consultion Group Leader
Nino
Sulkhanishvili. |
Preparatory founding assembly of the planned Georgian association of
surveying and land management with the FIG President under the chair of
Merab Nadaraia.
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State Minister
Kakha Bendukidze (1. f. r.) was the keynote
speaker to the UNECE WPLA Workshop. He was very proud that the new
government successfully has combated and reduced widespread corruption.
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FIG President together with NAPR first deputy chairwoman
Tea
Dabrundashvili, who talked about successful ‘Tbilisi Registration
Office Reform’. Tea was student of the postgraduate Master program ‘Land
management and land tenure’ at Magels TUM. |
Deputy Minister of Justice
Kote Vardzelashvili addressed the WPLA
community. The workshop was first time chaired by Peter Creuzer,
Germany (1. f. r.) |
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