Saakashvili Says EU’s War Inquiry Commission to Say ‘Georgia was Right’
President Saakashvili said on July 3 he was sure that the EU-funded mission probing into the August war would produce a report in which it would say that “we were right.”
He said that all the international organizations had condemned Russia’s invasion and “sided with Georgia.”
“The only chance for ‘a crow to become white’ is if Georgia itself says that we are to blame [for the war]; everyone has said that Georgia is right; all the commissions – more or less authoritative – said it and the commission, which is now working will say the same and I want to assure that it will say that we were right,” Saakashvili said while speaking in a live televised meeting with ministers in Batumi.
“But there are some people in Georgia who have the ambition to rule the country and who say that it is Georgia to blame, it is the Georgian government to blame… Such behaviour, traditionally, is described with one word, which I will not use now,” he added.
Saakashvili said that Georgia was attacked by "100,000-strong army, supported by over 2,000 armored vehicles and 200 aircraft were bombing us."
He also said that Georgia needed economic development for restoring territorial integrity.
“Which [occupied] territories can this predator of the 21st century maintain if Georgia develops? It is not Soviet Union, which could hardly maintain invaded Berlin for forty years,” Saakashvili said.
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