Secret military objects subject of public confrontation

Defensive fortifications in Georgia become confrontational topic. President Saakashvili criticized the government for not continuing the defensive constructions that his government started in 2009.

"After 2008, we started building of defensive fortifications around Tbilisi, Saakashvili said. "We created concrete bunkers on the heights all around Tbilisi and Tbilisi today is well-protected with these concrete bunkers and unlike 2008, now it is very difficult to attack Tbilisi from the North. Then we considered possibility that if the Russians found it difficult to attack Tbilisi from the North, they might have used their bases on the territory of Armenia, so we also started to create fortifications in the southern direction.

According to Chairman of the Defense and Security Parliamentary Committee, Irakli Sesiashvili, several months ago, the Ministry of Defense created a special commission that examined all the fortifications. Based on their conditions, some of the fortifications had been restored and others had been conserved so that it will be possible to rebuild them later, if needed.

"Mikheil Saakashvili knew that those were secret military objects but he still held a briefing, giving this information away so freely. He said that Russians already knew about our secret military objects, but its interesting how the president could know this, Sesiashvili said.

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee also said that it does not make any sense to build defensive fortifications around Tbilisi. It is more important to stop the enemy before they attack the capital.