On March 29, the deputy head of the Georgian State Security Service, Levan Izoria, briefed a joint session of three parliamentary committees: defense and security, human rights and legal affairs (Civil Georgia, March 29).
Normally, the State Security Service’s annual report to the parliament primarily assesses risks connected to Russian activities in Georgia. And this year, the report was titled “The Occupied Territories and Presence of Foreign Military Forces There as the Main Challenge for the State Security Service.” While delivering his remarks last week, however, Izoria also extensively covered the government’s efforts at fighting the terrorist threat—an issue explicitly …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation