Saakashvili: ‘Georgia Close to Achieving its Historic Goals’
President Saakashvili said on October 17, that Georgia had never been so close to achieving its goals as now, including on its drive to join EU and NATO.
“Never before we have been so close to achieving our historic goals as now; never before we have been so [close] to NATO and never before we have been so close to EU as now. Although our invader still rules [in parts] of our territories, and although it still bars you from returning back to your homes, our invaders have never before had so little chances as now,” Saakashvili said.
He was speaking at an opening ceremony of EU-funded apartment complex for internally displaced families in the Black Sea town of Poti.
Saakashvili said centuries ago Georgian Kings were sending letters and envoys to Europe requesting for help and then added by citing a verse from a Georgian poetry, that one such envoy had to wait in a long queue before a meeting with the Sun King, Louis XIV of France.
“A week ago, today’s Louis XIV arrived and addressed [public] and pledged friendship and assistance from Tbilisi’s central square,” Saakashvili said referring to French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit in Tbilisi on October 7.
He said that the major goal was to strengthen Georgia in order to peacefully return territories now occupied Russia.
