State Security Service Deputy Head notes hybrid threads, disinformation in report to Parliament
The Deputy Head said the body was “continuously monitoring” the situation on the territory of Georgia following the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine.Photo: State Security Service of Georgia.
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Hybrid threats and disinformation against Georgia’s Western integration and “additional challenges” created for the country by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine were noted by Aleksi Batiashvili, the Deputy Head of the State Security Service of Georgia, in his report on the work of the agency to the Parliament on Friday.
Delivered at a joint sitting of the Legal Affairs, Human Rights and Defence Committees, the report offered an overview of the Service’s work throughout last year, and noted its ongoing priorities.
Batiashvili told MPs the Russian invasion of Ukraine had “significantly damaged” the security environment in the South Caucasus region and created “additional challenges” for Georgia's sovereignty and national security.
The Deputy Head said the body was “continuously monitoring” the situation on the territory of Georgia following the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine.
He also called disinformation campaigns against the country, conducted by “individual countries and their special services”, a “significant challenge” to the state security.
The report also identified the main challenges to the policy towards the Russian-occupied Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) and Abkhazia regions of Georgia, with regards to activities of foreign intelligence services on the territories.
Five citizens of Georgia were arrested in 2021 for membership in terrorist organisations, the State Security Service said in its annual report that was released on Monday.Five citizens of Georgia were arrested in 2021 for membership in terrorist organisations, the State Security Service said in its annual report that was released on Monday.
The forces carrying out occupation of central Georgia’s Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region were observed in 130 cases of illegal ‘borderisation’ on the administrative boundary throughout 2021, while nine such incidents noted along the boundary separating the occupied northwestern Abkhazia from the Georgian territory, the annual report of the Georgian State Security Service said.
Activities of foreign special services designed to interfere in the public and political life of Georgia were a challenge for the country in 2021, an annual report of the State Security Service to the Georgian Parliament said.
Russia’s activities and its occupation of Georgian territories remain major threats to state security, the 2019 report of the Georgian State Security Service reads.
Hybrid threats and the Russian occupation in the Georgian regions of Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) were in focus of a meeting between the NATO Parliamentary Delegation and representatives of the Georgian State Security Service on Wednesday.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday commended the “crucial role” of the Georgian State Security Service agency in ensuring stability and security in the country and “strengthening Georgia”, in remarks for the seventh anniversary of the body.
Major General Giga Nikoleishvili, the Deputy Head of the State Security Service of Georgia, on Tuesday opened a large-scale field practical interagency training designed to develop the capability in combating proliferation of chemical, biological, radiation and nuclear threats.
The representatives of the Georgian State Security Service, the Emergency Management Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the units of the Ministry of Defence on Saturday successfully completed field practical interagency training designed to develop capability in combating proliferation of chemical, biological, radiation and nuclear threats.