TBILISI. Nov 2 (Interfax-AVN) - Georgia has postponed the visit of its military delegation to Turkey in the wake of the national government's resignation on Thursday, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry said.
Five high-ranking officials of the ministry led by Deputy Defense Minister Gela Bezhuashvili were to leave for Turkey on Saturday, but Defence Minister David Tevzadze was sacked together with the rest of the government, and Bezhuashvili was appointed acting minister. He must stay in the country to control the Armed Forces taking into account the complicated situation in the republic.
The reason for the government resignation was the political crisis caused by attempts of the Georgian State Security Ministry to confiscate financial documents from opposition Rustavi-2 television on Tuesday. The ministry's actions authorized by the Prosecutor General's office caused protests in Tbilisi which led to resignation of all law-enforcement chiefs and later of the whole government.
Sources in the Defense Ministry say that the delegation was supposed to discuss in Turkey the strengthning of bilateral cooperation in the military sphere and concretize the volumes of aid which Turkey was supposed to provide to Georgia.