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IS SAAKASHVILI'S MISSION IMPOSSIBLE?
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics27475.html
Published: 11:18:51 - 25/09/2012
The incident in the Georgian jail which was shot and spread may become
crucial for Georgia. Experts think that it will leave its impact on
the parliamentary elections due on October 1.
In this recent interview to PIK, Georgia's President Mikhail
Saakashvili, answering the question on his main mission, said: "To do
everything to make reforms in Georgia irrevocable". Having achieved
Georgia's withdrawal from the post-soviet influence zone and having
directed it to the West, Saakashvili knows that attempts to change
the vector of the development of the country will be made. Despite
the Georgia people have seen and felt the difference of the present
and former foreign political course, there is no guarantee that they
will change it out of fear, blackmail or political intrigues.
This already happened in Ukraine, which lived as a European country for
5 years, and then, with the help outside the country, it turned towards
Russia. But the experience of freedom and democracy was not in vain,
now, according to surveys, the greater part of the population prefers
joining the European Union and even the "pro-Russian" leadership of
the country does not want to join the CSTO, the Customs Union and
the Eurasian Union.
Georgia may do a step backwards. Outraged by the terrific video shot
in the jail people may refuse voting for the ruling party accusing
Saakashvili of everything. Though everyone understands that such
situation in prisons comes from the soviet era. The return to Russia
won't lead to the elimination of that era but to its second life.
Saakashvili's mission may turn out unfulfilled - reforms are revocable
for now. But the fate of not only Georgia, but also Ukraine and
Armenia and other countries, which are at the geopolitical crossroads,
depends on the fulfillment of this mission.
From: Baghdasarian
Naira Hayrumyan
Story from Lragir.am News:
http://www.lragir.am/engsrc/politics27475.html
Published: 11:18:51 - 25/09/2012
The incident in the Georgian jail which was shot and spread may become
crucial for Georgia. Experts think that it will leave its impact on
the parliamentary elections due on October 1.
In this recent interview to PIK, Georgia's President Mikhail
Saakashvili, answering the question on his main mission, said: "To do
everything to make reforms in Georgia irrevocable". Having achieved
Georgia's withdrawal from the post-soviet influence zone and having
directed it to the West, Saakashvili knows that attempts to change
the vector of the development of the country will be made. Despite
the Georgia people have seen and felt the difference of the present
and former foreign political course, there is no guarantee that they
will change it out of fear, blackmail or political intrigues.
This already happened in Ukraine, which lived as a European country for
5 years, and then, with the help outside the country, it turned towards
Russia. But the experience of freedom and democracy was not in vain,
now, according to surveys, the greater part of the population prefers
joining the European Union and even the "pro-Russian" leadership of
the country does not want to join the CSTO, the Customs Union and
the Eurasian Union.
Georgia may do a step backwards. Outraged by the terrific video shot
in the jail people may refuse voting for the ruling party accusing
Saakashvili of everything. Though everyone understands that such
situation in prisons comes from the soviet era. The return to Russia
won't lead to the elimination of that era but to its second life.
Saakashvili's mission may turn out unfulfilled - reforms are revocable
for now. But the fate of not only Georgia, but also Ukraine and
Armenia and other countries, which are at the geopolitical crossroads,
depends on the fulfillment of this mission.
From: Baghdasarian