Georgia: Georgy Khaindrava, minister of conflict resolution, replaced

Georgia: Georgy Khaindrava, minister of conflict resolution, replaced

No reason was immediately given for the replacement of Georgy Khaindrava by Mirab Antadze, a former deputy foreign minister.

There has been persistent concerns over the situation in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The Georgian parliament this week passed a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers in the two separatist regions.

President Mikhail Saakashvili had been expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the weekend on the sidelines of an informal summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Moscow, but Saakashvili's office said Friday the trip was postponed for unspecified reasons, the AP reports.