On December 5th, in the framework of the Project "Train the messenger- EU, Human Rights and Family Values" Levan Mikeladze Foundation held the third working group meeting with Latin and Armenian religious leaders and their parishes in Samtskhe-Javakheti region. The meeting took place at Hotel "Rabati" in Akhaltsikhe. 

During the meeting the invited project experts: KetevanAbashidze (Adjunct Professor at Ilia State University and Free University Tbilisi, European human rights Law and EU law), and Mikheil Mirziashvili (Chairman of the Board and Board Member of Center For Development and Democracy) and Oliver Reisner (Jean Monnet Professor of European and Caucasian Studies at Ilia State University) made the presentations.

The workshop discussed the essence and the benefits of the Association Agreement with EU, the rights of religious minorities in EU and Georgia, the European models of relationship between religion and state and the challenges of secularism in Georgia and EU.

The project was implemented with the financial support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Georgia