Saakashvili: With Reforms Georgia Created ‘New Order’ in Region

With its successful ongoing reforms, Georgia has turned into a model country for many post-Soviet states, creating “a new order in the region”, President Saakashvili said at a meeting with representatives of the Georgian community in New York.

By doing so, he said, Georgia has “assumed historic mission for the entire post-Soviet space.”

“And not only [for the post-Soviet space] – after the revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, many people express desire to come to Georgia and to learn from our reforms… There is something that we have created and which is absolutely unique and we should accomplish it,” Saakashvili said.

He said that the reforms created new possibilities for the youth in Georgia, as a result “more of our compatriots are returning back to Georgia, then leaving the country” and because of that, he added, “Georgia is our region’s democratic Singapore of the future,” which should turn into the fastest growing economies of Europe by 2015.

“This is neither fantasy nor a mere slogan,” he added.

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