Tbilisi. Institute for Development of Freedom of Information released a statement. "In her statement, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Maia Panjikidze alleged IDFI in misinterpretation of data obtained from the Ministry and dishonesty. Minister also questioned the expediency of providing the public information in general for the institute. ...Recently published data of the business trip and roaming costs of the Ministries in 2013 depicts the very same data that we had obtained from the Ministry; furthermore, references had been made that the given sum was not the expense of the Minister, but instead of the whole delegation, headed by the Minister, with strong emphases on the specific field of work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We would like to stress that the information has been published in the same form as we received it from the Ministry".

Source: idfi.ge