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- ↑ Council of Europe, Irine Sarishvili-Chanturia, National Democratic. Deputy. Parliament of Georgia Archived 2011-01-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "House of Free Opinion meets with Irina Sarishvili - Chanturia". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
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