TBILISI. Nov 1 (Interfax) - Incumbent Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili has underscored the need to establish a structure that would act as an alternative to the country's National Security Council that will be abolished in line with the latest constitutional amendments.
"As soon as the president-elect is sworn into office, the new constitution will enter into force, under which the National Security Council under the auspices of the president will be abolished. When this constitution was adopted, the ruling political force said that a structure that would be an alternative to this council would be approved, but it has not been done so far," Margvelashvili said at an international conference on Georgia's defense and security in Tbilisi on Thursday.
Georgia is not a country that can do without such an agency, he said.
"Within the National Security Council the state's highest-ranking officials adopt political decisions based on analytical data. Therefore, it is necessary to create and approve such an alternative structure as soon as possible," he said.