TBILISI. Nov 10 (Interfax) - Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has criticized former President Mikheil Saakashvili for his intention to buy two European helicopters for 40 million euro at a time when the Georgian border police had none.
"Our government has assigned funds for repairing and modernizing helicopters operated by border guards," he said on Monday at a presentation of new projects of the border police.
He lauded the role played by the U.S. in the strengthening of the Georgian border police force and said the U.S. had helped create ten properly equipped sectors on the Georgian borders with Azerbaijan, Armenia, Russia and Turkey this year.
"Our main strategic partner, the United States, is rendering priceless assistance in the construction projects. A short time ago we started building a communication network to control the Georgian border forces and the United States is assisting in that. This network will greatly improve the effectiveness of control over the state border," Garibashvili said.