Saakashvili on Georgia’s International Support
President Saakashvili said that Georgia now had more international support than it had before the August war and cited Georgia’s strategic partnership with the United States and Georgia’s planned participation in EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative for six former Soviet states.
“Our Foreign Minister [Grigol Vashadze] and the U.S. Secretary of State [Hillary Clinton] are meeting each other for already second time in a month,” he told a small group of television reporters after meeting with doctors in one of Tbilisi’s outpatient clinics.
“The United States has such relations with only very few countries. In January we signed a charter on strategic partnership and in the near future a top level Georgian-U.S. governmental commission will be set up to implement this strategic partnership.”
“For the first time, Obama gave its names to everything – instead of saying ‘excessive use of force’, ‘incorrect response,’ ‘disproportionate use of force’ – he said it directly, that it is ‘invasion’ into another country and everybody started to say ‘invasion,’ ‘aggression,’ ‘annexation’. So, the truth has found its way,” Saakashvili added.
“On May 6 we will sign Eastern Partnership agreement in Europe,” he continues. “It means that for the first time, we will establish close relations with the European Union about which we could not even dream a year ago.”
Saakashvili also said that now Georgia had “a unique chance” of integration into the Euro-Atlantic structures.
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