GEORGIAN PRESIDENT OFFERED TO CONVENE SUMMIT OF SOUTH CAUCASIAN AND BALTIC STATES
Pan Armenian
05.10.2005 12:36
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili offered to
hold a summit of the South Caucasian and Baltic states in Tbilisi. “We
hope that will we succeed in enabling the 3+3 format proposed by
Georgia and Lithuania. The format includes the three South Caucasian
and three Baltic states”, Mikhail Saakashvili said during a joint press
conference with Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga. According
to the Georgian President, the summit will promote the closing of
the former USSR republics in a new European format and the process
of integration of the South Caucasian states into the European
structures. “Such contacts are significant for consolidation of
democracy in the region and peaceful settlement of the conflicts
available”, Mikhail Saakashvili added.