BUSH: REVOLUTIONS WILL COME TO CAUCASUS SOON

PanARMENIAN.Net - US President George W. Bush announced that he considers necessary to continue the change of the regimes in the Caucasus and Middle Asia. A special rapid response corps will assist the countries of the region to transfer to democracy. Bush spoke of revolutions and democracies at a reception organized in International Republican Institute in Washington. The organization is kind of a center for working out plans of regime changes in the post-soviet space. It was this organization that head of the Federal Security Service of Russia Nikolay Patrushev accused in anti-Russian activities. Addressing the State Duma he reported that the IRI has decided to allocate $5 million for overthrowing the Lukashenko regime in Belarus. However, judging from Bush's words, the US strategists have much broader plans. The US President appreciated the IRI for the work done first. «I appreciate what the IRI does for the promotion of liberty. For over two decades the IRI was at the front line of democratic changes in over one hundred countries,» he said. The liberty demonstrates an unprecedented progress throughout the globe and within the past 18 months we evidenced revolutions - rose, orange, purple, tulip and cedar. And this is only the beginning,» Bush stated. In his words, democratic revolution will come to the Caucasus and Middle Asia in the near future. Bush did not explain which countries he meant, however one can suppose that he might have implied Armenia when saying Caucasus and Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Middle Asia. Statements of the Washington Administration indirectly confirm this. The only country Bush named directly was Belarus. To export democracy throughout the world Washington intends to establish a rapid response corps. In Bush's words, it will be composed of officers of diplomatic and civil services, who can be sent to crisis situations as "civil rescuers," as well as volunteers. "The availability of such a corps will allow sending the necessary specialists to foreign states and launch assistance programs within a few days and weeks, and not months or years as before," Bush accentuated. The US President made public the revolutionary expenses: within the past four years the White House has allocated a total of $4.6 billion for programs supporting democratic transition throughout the globe. For FY 2006 the Administration has requested another $1.3 billion from the US Congress for the same purpose. The rapid response corps will immediately get $125 million.