The major building of the Avlabari presidential palace in Tbilisi will be used for high-level receptions and ceremonies, head of the Georgian Presidential Administration Lasha Zhvania said.
"The palace will be renamed as the palace for state ceremonies," Agenda.ge cited Zhvania as saying.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili relocated the presidential residence from the Presidential Palace in Tbilisi's Avlabari district to an alternative location on Atoneli Street.
About 25 million GEL was spent on the renovation of the Orbeliani Palace in 2013 and it was expected that former president Giorgi Margvelashvili would move there after winning the presidential elections.
The palace later became a reason of controversy between Margvelashvili and the Georgian Dream party, which named him as its presidential candidate in 2013, as Margvelashvili decided to stay at the Avlabari presidential palace.
