Georgia's Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli on Wednesday sacked Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili, a French diplomat whose style proved too foreign for some of her subordinates, according to Reuters. Zurabishvili, the daughter of Georgian emigres, had been serving as France's ambassador to Tbilisi when President Mikhail Saakashvili asked French counterpart Jacques Chirac for permission to bring her into his government. Her dismissal followed complaints from senior diplomats and the pro-government majority in parliament that the minister, who speaks Georgian with a strong French accent, was failing to properly manage her ministry. "After consultations with parliament, I decided to remove the foreign minister from her post," Nogaideli told a news briefing, adding her replacement had not yet been chosen.
