PRESIDENT OF GEORGIA CALM TO DEVELOPMENTS IN HIS COUNTRY AND SURE THAT GEORGIA WILL BECOME ORDINARY EUROPEAN STATE AFTER WHILE

ArmInfo
2009-06-24 12:07:00

ArmInfo. Domestic political situation in Georgia is in good state,
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said in an interview with the
Armenian Public Television.

He said that although the opposition’s attempts to organize protest
actions, which it sometimes managed to do, the authorities proved that
they could be rather self-possessed. It is a normal phenomenon since
Georgians like rallying. Saakashvili said that once when he needed
he gathered 6-7 times more people. He also added that the opposition
in Georgia even tried to provoke police officers, organize bloodshed
scenes and everything just to deprive the Georgian authorities of
international support. However, the opposition failed. Today the
opposition is waiting for certain dirty money, but the authorities
will close this way by legal methods, the president of Georgia said.

He said that Georgian economy responded to those developments rather
calmly.

The international community had repeatedly praised the Georgian
authorities, Saakashvili said. Comparing the past with the present, the
president arrived at the conclusion that a political crisis inside the
government needs problems whereas the government of Georgia is united,
and the Parliament, the Police and the Army are consolidated. So
political crisis exists only in the mind of the oppositionists,
he said. Mikheil Saakashvili believes that the Georgian political
field is currently being cured. Afterwards, Georgia will become an
ordinary European state. The opposition is given an opportunity to
communicate with the people freely through the television.

The more people see the opposition the sooner they will be disappointed
with its radical actions, the Georgian president said.