"SAAKASHVILI COMMITTED A POLITICAL SUICIDE"

A1+
[08:32 pm] 08 November, 2007

"Saakashvili committed a political suicide by using force on the
peaceful demonstrators and completely destroyed his distorted image
of a democratic leader", said David Shahnazaryan in the interview with
"A1+".

He strictly condemned the incidents in Georgia.

"It is an unprecedented phenomenon – to close down two TV stations,
imposed emergency in the country, to ban dissemination of information
and make it the authorities’ monopoly is nonsense. He committed a
suicide indeed". David Shahnazaryan considers that Saakashvili should
have started a dialogue and shown flexibility "while he behaved as a
rude authoritarian leader". Similar developments of happenings were
predicted by David Shahnazaryan when Saakashvili came to power. "When
he came to power I said to the Armenian and Georgian mass media that
despite democrats came to power, the democracy had not won in Georgia".

In Mr Shahnazaryan excluded that the opposition was accused of
allegedly being led by secret Russian services: "I know some of
opposition leader, they are my friends, they are Georgia’s decent,
honest citizens, they are true democrats and I exclude that they may
be headed by foreign powers".

Even the US State Department excluded this version.

David Shahnazaryan explained Saakashvili’s accusations of foreign
political powers: "Saakashvily tries to use anti-Russian policy to
solve the inner problems in the country".

According to David Shahnazaryan, the incidents in Georgia will
negatively reflect on the region. "It may be a very bad precedent for
us, since it gives Kocharyan an opportunity to say that if democrat
Saakashvili uses force, then I can also do the same.

It may cause additional reigning of the RA authorities". The incidents
in Georgia promise that elections in Georgia may not be democratic,
legal, free and fair.

Anyway, David Shahnazaryan ensures that a political society is being
formed in Georgia: "But on the other hand there is a serious danger
that Georgia may become the country of permanent revolution".
From: Baghdasarian