Tbilisi. Georgian Young Lawyers' Association released a statement about Ivane Merabishvili's statement. "Ivane Merabishvili’s statement contains elements of offence ...legislation of Georgia envisages an obligation to launch an investigation on the fact. Furthermore, necessary prerequisite for exercise of the obligation shall not be submission of  Ivane Merabishvili’s or any other individual’s official application to the investigative organ.  As Article 101 of the Criminal procedure Code provides, the obligation to launch investigation arises even in case of dissemination of such information in mass media". GYLA also voices its position in terms of developments that took place after Merabishvili’s statement.