TBILISI. March 26 (Interfax-AVN) - The new secretary of the Georgian National Security Council, Tedo Dzhaparidze, said on his first day in office that he was planning a large-scale reform of the council's structure and style of work.
Dzhaparidze told reporters on Monday that he was going to use the American pattern as a model for a new structure of the council. Dzhaparidze was Georgia's ambassador to the United States for a period of time and had a chance to study the structure of American governing institutions.
In response to a question from Interfax-Military News Agency, Dzhaparidze said that the council would lay the stress on the analytical component of its activity and elaborating analytical materials for the country's leadership. The council's section in charge of analytical work will be reinforced substantially, he stressed.
Already on Wednesday, Dzhaparidze will attend a session of security council secretaries of the Caucasus Four group of nations, these being Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. The session will take place in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi. According to Dzhaparidze, he would raise the issues pertaining to Georgia's security and sovereignty at the session.
Dzhaparidze, Georgia's former ambassador to the United States, Canada and Mexico, was appointed to his current post in early March. He is a career diplomat. In the 1990s he worked in the Georgian Foreign Ministry and later became President Eduard Shevardnadze's aide on foreign policy issues.
Nugzar Sadzhaya, former secretary of the council appointed to the post in 1995, committed suicide in his own cabinet on February 25, 2002. The reason behind the suicide is not yet clear. One of them may be the baiting campaign launched against the official in the Georgian media. In particular, he was accused of masterminding numerous contract murders committed in Georgia in the past few years.