Parliamentary Chairperson Nino Burjanadze said on April 5 that she hoped the political crisis in Ukraine would be solved peacefully through the holding of snap elections.
Officials in Tbilisi are closing watching developments in Ukraine, where President Victor Yushchenko dissolved Parliament on April 2 and called snap elections, thus shattering a fragile power-sharing deal with his rival, Prime Minister Victor Yanukovich.
?The president had the constitutional right to dissolve Parliament? I am sure that democratic forces will win in the elections and [hopefully] these forces will adopt correct internal and external policies,? Nino Burjanadze said.
She regretted that Ukraine’s Orange Revolution leaders, President Victor Yushchenko and his former prime minister, Yuliya Tymoshenko, hadn’t maintained unity, which would have prevented the current crisis.
?The democratic development of Ukraine is of crucial importance for Georgia,? Burjanadze added.
Tbilisi makes no secret that it wants President Yushchenko to prevail in the current standoff as authorities in Georgia see pro-western President of Ukraine as a reliable regional ally in its Euro-Atlantic aspirations.
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