DFWatch staff 
TBILISI, DFWatch–Defense Minister Irakli Alasania Friday met with his French colleague Jean-Yves Le Drian at the French Defense Ministry.
They discussed military-industrial cooperation between Georgia and France and future plans.
Alasania said they discussed
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police Colonel Alexandre Chikaidze will replace Irakli Gharibashvili and become new Georgian Interior Minister.
Chikaidze was presented by Prime Minister Gharibashvili on Saturday.
The 28 year-old Chikaidze graduated from Tbilisi State
TBILISI, DFWatch–Speaker of Parliament Davit Usupashvili yesterday finished a one week visit to Lithuania and Latvia.
He said Georgia’s friends are ready to support its integration with Europe at the summit of the Eastern Partnership’s in Vilnius November 28-29,
TBILISI, DFWatch–The exchange rate of Georgian lari against the US dollar and the euro has fallen.
November 8, the exchange rate of lari against USD was 1.6793. November 7 it was 1.6737. The rate has been falling for one week. October 29 it was 1.6675.
The Georgian lari
TBILISI, DFWatch–The deputy foreign minister of Israel says relations with Georgia have warmed during the last year.
Zeev Elkin, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel, also says that the agreement about visa free travel between the two states will soon
TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor Archil Kbilashvili resigned on Thursday. His replacement, Otar Partskhaladze, was presented Friday.
It has not been officially confirmed, but unofficially known that Partskhaladze will leave his job as chairman
TBILISI, DFWatch–Austria has extradited a Georgian citizen who is charged with torture and was being searched for by Interpol.
According to the Interior Ministry, Davit Chaginava, who was detained in Austria September 30, has been extradited to Georgia. Interpol has
TBILISI, DFWatch–Police are investigating an attack on the head of the campaign office for Georgian Dream candidate Giorgi Margvelashvili in Sagarejo, in eastern Georgia, in the evening of Election Day.
Ivane Kvrivishvili was attacked by members of the Georgian Dream
TBILISI, DFWatch–The trial against former Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili for the violent dispersal of an anti-government protest in 2011 will begin November 19.
It was on May 26, 2011, that an anti-government protest in front of parliament was brutally dispersed
TBILISI, DFWatch–President Mikheil Saakashvili assures foreign diplomats that he is hoping the new government and president will succeed and make the economy boom.
Meeting with foreign diplomats at the president’s palace in Tbilisi on Wednesday to sum up the