I am grateful to Giorgi Kekelidze for all the good work he did with his team – this is a personnel decision that is important for the further development of the National Library. I am not going to make additional comments and clarifications regarding this issue, since it is a personnel decision, – the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, Shalva Papuashvili, said.
Papuashvili noted that the new head of the National Library will be Konstantine Gamsakhurdia. The Chairman of the Parliament believes that it is not even necessary to explain how suitable the said position is for Konstantine Gamsakhurdia.
“I had a meeting with Giorgi Kekelidze yesterday. The National Library is bigger, more than each of us, with almost two hundred years of history, and the work that has been done there over the years is important work. Behind this is the great team of the National Library, which has brought us the National Library as it is, and also with the vision of the future that it has. I am grateful to Giorgi Kekelidze for all the good things he did with his team.
“This decision for change is a personnel decision that is important for the further development of the National Library. I am not going to make additional comments and clarifications regarding this matter, since it concerns a personnel decision that is acceptable to the Speaker of the Parliament.
“Konstantine Gamsakhurdia will be the new head. I would like to wish him success. He will be officially approved in the coming days. I think that Konstantine Gamsakhurdia will play an important role in the further development of the National Library of Georgia.
“Every organization needs new energy and it is with this new energy that the National Library will continue to work. I think there is no need to explain the degree Konstantine Gamsakhurdia is suitable for the position of the director of the National Library of the Parliament of Georgia, I think there are no questions in this regard in society,” Papuashvili said.
When asked whether Giorgi Kekelidze was dismissed on political grounds, Papuashvili said that the National Library has nothing to do with politics, nor should it.
“Of course, the National Library has nothing to do with politics at all, nor should it have anything to do with politics, so these attempts to somehow connect the National Library with politics in itself show the dishonesty of those who try to make such a connection. The National Library is the heritage and future of our common Georgian people in one organization and one building,” he replied.
