Saakashvili Reiterates November 7 ‘Big Lesson’

President Saakashvili said again that last November events were a “big lesson” personally for him.

“We have all learnt big lessons from the November 7 events; including personally me and the government as well. What [the November 7] has taught us is that all the issues should be resolved not in the streets, but in the Parliament, court; through dialogue and mutual understanding and not through mutual swearing,” Saakashvili said.

He was speaking at a meeting with Giorgi Sherazadishvili, who was among those several hundred of people injured during the police break up of the last year’s November 7 anti-government demonstration. Saakashvili met with Sherazadishvili at the latter’s house.

“The fact that Tbilisi stood as one in the face of huge attack of the enemy on Georgia – hundreds of thousands of people stood in the street [at the rally on August 12] under the falling bombs – is the result of a dialogue and consolidation of the people,” Saakashvili told Sherazadishvili in remarks aired by the Georgian televisions. “The stability will be maintained if there is a dialogue with each other and if we develop democracy and through this Georgia will get rid of occupants.”

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