Former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Nino Kalandadze, has been summoned to the Prosecutor's Office. This is supposedly related to the ongoing investigation into the case of Davit Gareji.

InterPressNews contacted Nino Kalandadze. Kalandadze confirms that she was contacted by the Prosecutor's Office, but she didn't discuss other details.

For reference, Archimandrite Kirion of the Davit Gareji fathers' monastery testified to the investigative agency that the then-Deputy Foreign Minister, Nino Kalandadze, had expressed a damaging position on the Davit Gareji issue. According to Kirion, Nino Kalandadze stated at an official press conference during the events of May 2012 that the Udabno Monastery did not belong to Georgia since Soviet times and was a territorial property of Azerbaijan.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, in cooperation with the State Security Service, has detained Iveri Melashvili, Head of the Border Relations Service of the Department of Neighboring Countries of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, and Natalia Ilychova, Chief Inspector of the Land Border Protection Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the Prosecutor's Office, the forensic report found that the defendants, in the delimitation process, were using the boundary lines drawn on maps issued in 1970-80, which is essentially contrary to the historical border of Georgia, including in relation to David Gareji.