Saakashvili Personally Assumes PM Duties
Civil Georgia (Tbilisi)
2005-02-03
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on February 3 that he will
assume the Prime Minister’s responsibilities in the wake of the death of
Zurab Zhvania early on Thursday.
`I, as the President of Georgia, will assume the leadership of the
executive authorities. I instruct the members of the government to
return to their work places and work in a usual regime. I, as the
Commander in Chief , instruct the law enforcement agencies and the army
to continue performing their functions,’ the President said after
visiting the newly built Holly Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi on February 3.
`It is very important to maintain order and discipline in the country. I
want to warn everybody that all those who violate order and discipline
will be answerable before the law. We fully control the situation, we
are a strong state, we are strong nation and we will manage to settle
the problems,’ President Saakashvili added.