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Georgian Party Plans Protest Rally at U.S. Embassy


Irakli Okruashvili listens to a talk show host’s question as he spoke to Maestro TV’s Straightforward Conversation via video link-up from Paris late on May 10.

The opposition Georgian Party will hold a rally on May 16 outside the U.S. embassy in Tbilisi from where "torrent, poisoning the Georgian society, is flowing," one of the leaders of the party and ex-defense minister, Irakli Okruashvili, said on Tuesday.

He said that the Georgian Party had "an elaborated plan of action" of future protest rallies, which should eventually lead to fall of "the Saakashvili’s regime." One of those steps, he said, was planned on May 16 by "going to the source and closing the valve of that source."

"That valve is located in Digomi in the U.S. embassy," Okruashvili continued, referring to a suburb of Tbilisi where the U.S. embassy is located. "That’s the place from where torrent, which poisons the Georgian society, is flowing."

"On May 16 we will mobilize our activists from Tbilisi at the U.S. embassy and we also call on the Tbilisites to come and express protest against direct or indirect support the U.S. is providing to the [Saakashvili’s] regime," Okruashvili said.

"We are going to tell them [referring to the U.S.] directly that by supporting this regime, they are burying democracy in this country. If Russians are seizing our territories, Americans are seizing our freedom; we won’t be able to use territories if we have no freedom."

"Once and forever it should be made clear for both the North [referring to Russia] and the West what is the goal of the Georgian nation. If we don’t say it loudly, everyone, on the both sides, will try to manipulate us," Okruashvili added.

The ex-defense minister was speaking to the Tbilisi-based Maestro TV’s Straightforward Conversation through video link-up from Paris, where he is since November, 2007 and where he received political asylum. He was sentenced to 11-year prison term in Georgia in absentia in March, 2008.

Okruashvili also said that the Georgian Party, which had completed building of its party infrastructure, "now moved on the second stage" involving "testing" of its capacity by holding series of protest rallies in the provinces.

"The third stage will be hitting ‘a deadly blow’ to this regime; we will move on to this third stage in the nearest future," Okruashvili said.

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