Official: No Shifts in Georgia’s Foreign Policy

Appointment of a new Foreign Minister will not lead to a shift in the country’s western-oriented foreign policy, Chief of the Georgian President’s Administration Giorgi Arveladze said at a news conference on October 20.

Arveladze, who gave up his MP credentials after being appointed Chief of the President’s Administration on October 20, responded to allegations voiced by the New Rights opposition party, which claims that Salome Zourabichvili’s dismissal from the Foreign Minister’s position is an attempt by the Georgian leadership to “change the country’s western foreign policy into a Russian-oriented one.”

“Georgia is strongly determined to follow the western foreign policy course and the President and people of Georgia are guarantors of this course… If someone thinks that the country’s foreign policy depends on individual Ministers, they have no idea about the way this country’s government works,” Giorgi Arveladze said.

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