Georgia Fights for Our Common Transatlantic Values
Mikheil Saakashvili, president of Georgia | August 12, 2008
Of all the post-Soviet states, Georgia has come furthest in the fight to strenghten democracy and independent foreign policy and that is precisely what Russia wants to thwart. ++ The fact that Russia was entrusted with the peacekeeping and mediating in Abkhazia and South Ossetia makes the violation of international norms even more appalling. ++ This war is not only about Georgia’s independence; it is about transatlantic values of liberty and democracy and its outcome will determine in what “kind of Europe our children will live.”
