TBILISI. Jan 20 (Interfax-AVN) - Reinforced security measures will be taken in Tbilisi on January 25 due to inauguration of Georgia's new President Mikhail Saakashvili, State Security Minister Valery Khaburdzania said on Tuesday.
"The Georgian State Security Ministry will be mobilized as much as possible at the facilities where the country's new President Mikhail Saakashvili will visit on January 25, his inauguration day," Khaburdzania told reporters.
"Unprecedented security measures will be taken because the State Security Ministry has information that an assassination attempt on the president is being prepared," he stressed.
Khaburdzania did not specify who was behind the preparations, saying only that "at the moment there are many forces for whom Mikhail Saakashvili is unacceptable."
"We must consider all variants and neutralize danger, that is why secret services are working on all risk sources and performing some kind of surveillance," he said.
According to the minister, "the forces that are interested in Georgia's destabilization exist both inside the country and outside it."
He would not name "external forces" either.