Changes in Joint Staff of the Armed Forces

The Georgian reserve Brigadier General Vakhtang Kapanadze may be appointed as the Chief of Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces.

Chairman of the Georgian Parliamentary Defense and Security Committee, Irakli Sesiashvili affirms that Vakhtang Kapanadze might succeed his counterpart Irakli Dzneladze in this position.

In addition, the Joint Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces will be renamed. According to the new Constitutional amendments, it will be called the General Staff.

"I can affirm that we discuss Vakhtang Kapanadzes candidacy in this position indeed. He is very honest person, he has excellent experience and he will be very good in the Georgian Armed Forces. said Irakli Sesiashvili.

Vakhtang Kapanadze, who was born in 1960, served as the Chief of the General Staff of the Georgian Armed Forces in 2004-2005. In 2004 he commanded the Georgian peacekeeping battalion in South Ossetia.

Kapanadze graduated from Tbilisi State University, and later was enrolled to Georgia's Academy of Interior. He has also been trained at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, U.S. Army War College, and National Academy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Vakhtang Kapanadze is a veteran of 90s civil war in Georgia. He was granted the orders of Honor and Vakhtang Gorgasali, 3rd Rank.