Anti-Crisis Council Chair Selected

A lawmaker from the parliamentary minority, Gia Tortladze, will chair an Anti-Crisis Council, President Saakashvili said on September 18.

President Saakashvili met with a group of politicians who are part of the Council – a body set up under his initiative, with an original goal, to oversee spending of funds coming into Georgia as part of foreign aid after the August war. The group involves politicians – mainly those from the parliamentary minority – who signed on September 5 a Charter of Politicians of Georgia. Most of the opposition parties have snubbed the Council.

President Saakashvili said that Georgia expected “USD 3-4 billion of foreign aid in next couple of years” and this fund needed proper monitoring. He also reiterated his earlier commitment to give the Council some of the executive powers.

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