Saakashvili: Some Hope for Foreign Military Intervention to Topple Gov’t

There are forces within Georgia wanting to topple the present government through foreign military intervention, President Saakashvili said on March 25.

He said those forces would not succeed because the Georgian people would never accept it and because of Georgia’s "effective" security services.

Saakashvili was speaking while awarding police officers, who were involved in investigation of last year’s murder of Interior Ministry official, Dimitri Kordzadze, who was killed in a car bomb explosion in Batumi.

The Georgian Interior Ministry said on March 22, that Kordzadze’s murder was ordered by Abkhaz-based operatives of the Russian military intelligence.
 
“We are in a huge struggle,” Saakashvili told the police officers. “There are some people within the country with pretension of being politician, who have lost any hope to gain popular support so much that they – and you know it better than me – are talking with each other that ‘the only thing that will save us is entry of foreign country’s troops into Tbilisi’,"
 
“But they will not succeed… because, first of all, the Georgian people will never accept it; Georgia has an effective government and in this particular case it is important that we have an effective security service, special structures of the Interior Ministry, which have learnt solving crimes professionally and which have turned the country into a safe place for its residents and which have learnt to give an adequate response to all kinds of external aggressive elements and to thier local stooges,” he said.

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