Saakashvili: ‘Chance to Make Economic Breakthrough’
Georgia now has a chance to make “a very drastic economic breakthrough”, as despite serious difficulties, the country managed to withstand the crisis “more easily” than others, President Saakashvili said on September 2.
He, however, also said that Georgia had not yet “fully come out from the crisis” and the country still had “serious economic difficulties and we do not hide that.” But Saakashvili also said that it was now the time for moving from the anti-crisis plan to the economic stimulus plan.
“With the political stability we have in recent month and a half [referring to the end of opposition’s street protest rallies] and with the failure of aggressor’s [reference to Russia] attempt to launch a new war in August, we now have a chance to move towards very drastic economic breakthrough. However, it needs a further, well-elaborated program on which the Georgian government, which is united like a single fist, is working very intensively including with my participation,” President Saakashvili said and added that “much needs to be done” to fully overcome the crisis.
He was speaking at the ceremony of opening a 249-room luxury Radisson SAS Hotel Tbilisi, a formerly Iveria hotel which was sheltering about 230 families displaced from Abkhazia in early 90s. IDP families vacated the building in 2004 after investors paid compensation USD 7,000 to each family.
“They [IDPs] will return not to the one-room apartments bought by investors here, but they will return to their own homes [in Abkhazia], from where they were expelled,” Saakashvili said. “But only strengthened, internationally-supported Georgia can keep this promise and we all will build this Georgia together.”
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