TBILISI. May 27 (Interfax-AVN) -The Georgian General Staff has developed a number of programs for Georgian ministers to undergo reserve duty training.
"The General Staff has developed a number of programs for reserve duty training of Georgian ministers. The training is expected to be held in late summer-early autumn, after all the documents are approved," Vice Colonel Nika Janjgava, chief of the Georgian General Staff's Department for military training, told reporters Thursday.
"The training is not aimed at making ministers dig trenches or dropping them with parachutes, although they will undergo serious military training. The main idea is to familiarize the ministers with the situation in the army, with the problems of the military, as well as with the tasks and operating and living conditions," emphasized he.
Janjgava earlier was commander of the Georgian Land Forces, but in 2002 he was relieved of the post and the rank and discharged from the military service following the decision of the Defense Ministry's Council, after he had organized a protest in the Commandos battalion. At that time 102 officers who protested against the situation in the Armed Foroces applied for resignation on his initiative. After Gela Bezhuashvili was appointed Georgian defense minister, Janjgava returned to the military service in his rank.
A source in the Georgian Defense Ministry told Interfax- Military News Agency Thursday that during the training Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, on whose initiative such training for ministers is to be organized for the first time, intends to have a detailed discussion of the situation in the army with his government to find ways for its soonest improvement.
"As far as I know, the president thinks that the discussion would be most fruitful, given the ministers had a close personal look at the Georgian Armed Forces," the source added.