Interior Minister Gomelauri appointed as new secretary of National Security Council
Vakhtang Gomelauri was appointed as interior minister last year. Photo: government of Georgia press office.
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Interior Minister Vakhatang Gomelauri has been appointed as the new secretary of the National Security Council, replacing former Defence Minister Levan Izoria in the role.
Gomelauri will have to fulfill the duties of both the interior minister and the secretary of the National Security Council starting today.
The National Security Council is a very important body. I congratulate Gomelauri on his appointment as a new secretary of the council,” Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia stated today.
The National Security Council is the PM’s eight-member advisory body, responsible for national security policy planning and coordination.
The council is chaired by the prime minister.
Its other members are interior, defence, foreign and finance ministers, heads of state security and intelligence services and the chief of the Georgian armed forces.
Izoria, who became the secretary of the council in November 2019, resigned in January 2020 and was appointed as Georgia’s new ambassador to Germany.
Head of the Georgian Intelligence Service and the Secretary of the National Security Council Levan Izoria has resigned, becoming the country’s new ambassador to Germany.
Georgian Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri has met with EUMM mission head to Georgia Erik Hoeg, a Danish diplomat who has ended his chairmanship in EUMM Georgia.
Former Defence Minister of Georgia Levan Izoria, who currently chairs the state intelligence service, has been appointed as the new secretary of Georgia’s National Security Council, the PM’s eight-member advisory body responsible for national security policy planning and coordination.
Georgian Defence Minister Levan Izoria has praised Georgia-US cooperation at the 16th Batumi International Conference adding more rotational military exercises with involvement of NATO countries are planned in Georgia. Izoria said that Georgia is preparing for another three-year cycle of cooperation to ‘increase Georgia’s self-defence capacity.’
Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri stated that 2020 was a year of ‘sudden and difficult challenges.’ “The ministry had to carry out a range of activities at the same time. We were ensuring order and safety, controlling the state border, fighting with criminal, ensuring the defence of human rights, fighting against fires and natural disasters, ensuring a safe electoral environment, ensuring traffic safety, carrying out infrastructural projects and the instructions of the Government's Coordinating Council against coronavirus round the clock,” Gomelauri said.
Reform of the field of the security of critical infrastructure, the ongoing situation in the occupied territories, and review of a range of strategic draft documents pending approval were reviewed at the latest meeting of the National Security Council on Wednesday.