PRESIDENT SAAKASHVILI DECLARES ABOUT WITHDRAWAL OF GEORGIA FROM THE CIS

ARMENPRESS
Aug 12, 2008

TBILISI, AUGUST 12, ARMENPRESS: President of Georgia Mikhail
Saakashvili declared today about withdrawal of Georgia from the
CIS. "We have decided that Georgia will leave the CIS," he said
in Tbilisi speaking in front of thousands of supporters gathered
outside parliament.

"We finally say farewell to the Soviet Union, USSR will never return
here again. We urge Ukraine and other countries to also leave the
Commonwealth of Independent States, which is dominated by Russia
without taking into consideration the opinion of other countries,"
he said.