Ex-Defense Minister appointed as President’s Advisor

Ex-Defense Minister Davit Tevzadze has been appointed as Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili’s Advisor in Strategic Planning Issues.

Davit Tevzadze is a retired Georgian lieutenant general who was the country’s Minister of Defense from April 1998 to February 2004.

In February 2004, Tevzadze was dismissed as Defense Minister and nominated by ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili as an Ambassador to NATO. From 2005, Tevzadze distanced himself from politics and engaged in scholarship and teaching.