March 17, 2009 - 21:11 AMT
Former Georgian Prime Minister slams Saakashvili's position on neighbor states
Georgia's Ex PM Criticizing Sahakashvilli's Attitude to Neighbouring Countries

Zurab Nogaideli: Mikhail Sahakashvilli does not express the will of the Georgian people. Both his opinion and the Georgian people will soon help rebuild the friendly relations with the neighbouring countries.

The leader of "Movement for fair Georgia", the former Prime Minister of the country Zurab Nogaideli criticized Georgia's President Sahakashvilli for his statements regarding the neighbouring countries.

"In his statements addressed to the Ukraine and Armenia Sahakashvilli considerably worsened the relations with the countries. Georgia had been in a much worse state when suffered a defeat in the August of last year but the leaders of these countries did not make any such statements about our country. Moreover, the President of the Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko was in Georgia at that time and supported Georgian authorities," Nogaideli said.

As to him, Mikhail Sahakashvilli does not express the will of the Georgian people. Both his opinion and the Georgian people will soon help rebuild the friendly relations with the neighbouring countries, apsny.ge. reports.

The President of Georgia, Mikhail Sahakashvilli announced on March 9, "You know that within a few weeks Armenia's economy collapsed. It collapsed because it fully depended on the Russian market, and when the Russian market collapsed, so did the economy of Armenia."