Saakashvili Offers Advisory Board

President Saakashvili met a group of experts and analysts on January 21 and offered them to set up an advisory-type of body with which he would be able to consult regularly.
 
“Recently we have been working intensively to evade devastating consequences of the global economic crisis,” Saakashvili said. “We want to know what your opinion on this matter is. It is of special importance to listen to those people, which are regularly working on this issue and are discussing these issues on the television and in the press.”

“We should also listen to them with whom we may disagree or whose ideas may be unacceptable for me; this makes this type of meetings even more interesting. Despite different and opposing political opinions we all are citizens of this country and we all have one goal – strong Georgia, united, independent Georgia and also to rescue our country, including from this heavy economic crisis,” Saakashvili said at the meeting, which last for up to four hours and which was attended by some of those experts, who are outspoken critics of the authorities’ various policies.

President Saakashvili has proposed setting up of “a broad coordination council” with the involvement of a group of experts with “a major goal to help the authorities to overcome economic crisis,” a statement of the President’s press office says.

President Saakashvili had a small advisory group, which was set up shortly after becoming the President in 2004. The group, however, became dysfunctional year later.

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