19 February 2004, 13:57
Georgia to declassify KGB archives
The State Security Ministry of Georgia will make KGB (State Security Committee of the USSR) archives accessible to the wide public in the near future, said President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. "New Georgia has no obligation to the former USSR. Our Georgian state secrets will surely be preserved, but the old archives of the former USSR that are kept by the Georgian State Security Ministry must become accessible to the wide public," he said while introducing the new State Security Minister, Zurab Adeishvili, to the ministry's staff. Mikhail Saakashvili asserts that "the most part of the archives of the former KGB was removed to Russia by Igor Georgadze, when he took up the post of the state security minister.
Source: RIA Novosti
