Tbilisi. Transparency International - Georgia published recommendations on territorial optimization of municipalities. "Territorial optimization of municipalities is one of the key challenges of the local self-government reform, which implies the establishment of new self-governing cities and self-governing communities within the current municipalities. ...If the authorities aim to form real self-government and to the extent possible bring self-government units closer to the population by increasing their number, then the territorial optimization of municipalities should secure maximum participation of the local population. Demographic, geographic, infrastructural, social, economic, historical and cultural issues should be taken into account. This requires solid amount of work as well as mobilization of considerable financial and human resources. We believe undertaking this volume of work in 2-3 months is associated with a host of difficulties", says the document.