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5 March 2009 - 16:31 AMT

Mikhail Saakashvili’s chaotic politics leads to tension in Georgia

The internal political situation in Georgia is not problem-free and it is reflected on Javakhk. Mikhail Saakashvili’s chaotic politics leads to tension not only regarding the region settled by Armenians, but also all over Georgia, said Alexander Iskandaryan, political scientist, director of Caucasus Institute at the press-conference in Tbilisi. Maybe in this way Saakashvili will manage to stay in power or quite possibly it is the ordinary condition of Georgian politics. Georgian opposition has no rivals compatible with Saskashvili, to put it roughly they do not have Georgian Levon Ter-Petrosyan. Moreover, there is an obvious lack of correspondence of queries made by national minorities on the concept of unitary state, which the Georgian president supports so eagerly, Iskandaryan said.

In his opinion, Armenia at present is very much dependent on Georgia since 80% of goods is transported through its territory. But Georgia , too needs Armenia. So, neither party is interested in tense relations, the Armenian political scientist emphasized.