Anti-War Rally in Tbilisi

(Tbilisi. March 6, 2003. Civil Georgia) – Up to 50 people, Georgian civil rights activists, pop stars and actors among them, gathered today near the Parliament to express protest against the US possible war against Iraq.

The organizers of the anti-war demonstration say that they fully support the statement of the Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church Ilia II, which condemned war in Iraq and called the nation to pray for peace.

?This is the rally against injustice, war and violence,? the statement of the organizers of the anti-war demonstration reads.

Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze supported the US campaign against Iraq saying that the United States is Georgia?s friend and partner.

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