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UNM OFFERS TO MAKE PRO-WESTERN COURSE CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED
Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 31 Jan.'13 / 18:21
A day after proposing making Georgia's pro-Western foreign policy
course legally binding through passing a law, President Saakashvili's
UNM party offered on January 31 to make such legal guarantees even
stronger by introducing a relevant clause in the country's
constitution.
"We welcome the [Georgian Dream] parliamentary majority's declared
desire to remain on the European path of development and offer them to
jointly prepare draft of constitutional amendments... to reaffirm that
Georgia's only future is European future and that Georgia's
Euro-Atlantic integration should continue," Davit Bakradze, leader of
the UNM parliamentary minority group, said.
Davit Usupashvili, the parliamentary chairman, said on January 30
after UNM announced about intention to initiate a draft law on
"irreversibility of foreign policy course" that Georgian Dream offered
UNM on January 18 to launch a work on a joint "inter-faction agreement
on foreign policy course".
"So this process is already launched," Usupashvili said. "There is
already a draft document and if the UNM has a desire to get involved
in the process we only welcome it. It is less important what kind of
form it will have - whether it will be a law, resolution or an
agreement. What matters most is that we should be able to elaborate a
long-term strategy in respect of major issues; it is inadmissible to
have dramatic changes, especially in the foreign policy, once in four
years."
President Saakashvili said on January 31, that such constitutional
amendment was necessary against the background of PM Bidzina
Ivanishvili's remarks in Yerevan, which Saakashvili said, amounted to
"Armenization" of Georgia's foreign policy.
Saakashvili said that such constitutional provision was needed "if we
seriously are not intending to play Putinist game about our return to
the Soviet empire."
"I hope that the parliamentary majority will consider this proposal
seriously and will not consider it as yet another propagandistic
trick, it's not about PR, it's about Georgia's future," Saakashvili
said.
He made the remarks while visiting a factory run by Defense Ministry's
military industrial enterprise Delta.
http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=25700
Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 31 Jan.'13 / 18:21
A day after proposing making Georgia's pro-Western foreign policy
course legally binding through passing a law, President Saakashvili's
UNM party offered on January 31 to make such legal guarantees even
stronger by introducing a relevant clause in the country's
constitution.
"We welcome the [Georgian Dream] parliamentary majority's declared
desire to remain on the European path of development and offer them to
jointly prepare draft of constitutional amendments... to reaffirm that
Georgia's only future is European future and that Georgia's
Euro-Atlantic integration should continue," Davit Bakradze, leader of
the UNM parliamentary minority group, said.
Davit Usupashvili, the parliamentary chairman, said on January 30
after UNM announced about intention to initiate a draft law on
"irreversibility of foreign policy course" that Georgian Dream offered
UNM on January 18 to launch a work on a joint "inter-faction agreement
on foreign policy course".
"So this process is already launched," Usupashvili said. "There is
already a draft document and if the UNM has a desire to get involved
in the process we only welcome it. It is less important what kind of
form it will have - whether it will be a law, resolution or an
agreement. What matters most is that we should be able to elaborate a
long-term strategy in respect of major issues; it is inadmissible to
have dramatic changes, especially in the foreign policy, once in four
years."
President Saakashvili said on January 31, that such constitutional
amendment was necessary against the background of PM Bidzina
Ivanishvili's remarks in Yerevan, which Saakashvili said, amounted to
"Armenization" of Georgia's foreign policy.
Saakashvili said that such constitutional provision was needed "if we
seriously are not intending to play Putinist game about our return to
the Soviet empire."
"I hope that the parliamentary majority will consider this proposal
seriously and will not consider it as yet another propagandistic
trick, it's not about PR, it's about Georgia's future," Saakashvili
said.
He made the remarks while visiting a factory run by Defense Ministry's
military industrial enterprise Delta.
http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=25700