Tbilisi. The Coalition for "Independent and Transparent Judiciary" has commented on the draft bill authored by the Government of Georgia as part of the Ministry of Interior reform, which provides for separation of the State Security Service from the Ministry of Interior and the related changes.

The Coalition welcomes the readiness of the Government of Georgia "to deconcentrate abundant powers within the Ministry of Interior of Georgia and to set up functionally and institutionally separated State Security Service. Yet, it is important that instead of fragmented changes, it is crucial to develop an integrated concept of the Ministry of Interior reform, which will be based on the consensus vision of the state and civil society on the challenges and needs that the system is facing", the statement says.

Source: transparency.ge