Officials: Government to Follow War Commission Recommendations

Senior officials, including Parliamentary Chairperson, Davit Bakradze, said on December 19, that the government was strongly committed to follow recommendations laid out by the parliamentary commission, which studied the August war.

Grigol Vashadze, the foreign minister, said that he “fully agreed” that shortcomings described by the commission report in respect of the Foreign Ministry should be immediately addressed.

“I have read the report very carefully, especially the part, which concerns the Foreign Ministry and we should probably agree that the Ministry was not prepared for such emergency situation and had not prepared any instructions for it,” Vashadze, who was deputy foreign minister in August, told journalists on December 19. “The August war has taught us many lessons and we should think seriously how to improve these shortcomings.”

He said that the Ministry has already started tackling the shortcomings.

While addressing, as the report puts it, “the weak sides” of the Georgian Foreign Ministry, the commission said that “there is no special action plan and written instructions for ambassadors on how to act in the emergency situations; the activities of ambassadors are not controlled properly either.”

Meanwhile, Giorgi Muchaidze, the deputy foreign minister, told Rustavi 2 TV that the Defense Ministry was also addressing the problems identified by the commission, in particular he said that concept of the reserve troops will be revised.

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