I not only read the 30-minute speech of our neighboring country President Mikhail Saakashvili at the UN General Assembly, but also watched, it was interesting how, what intonation the President of Georgia was using in his speech, as well as when and how the RF representatives were leaving the hall. The last episode was not particularly impressive, the Russian diplomats came out around 25 minutes later, when the most fierce criticism to the address of their country was already voiced.
Of course, Saakashvili is not a balanced person, he is much excited, he is having shortness of breath, especially when talking about Russia. However, some observations seemed to me quite fair, Armenia was driven to the corner and was had to join the Customs Union, Russia is not interested that any side of Karabakh conflict benefits, because, in this case, the RF will lose its influence in the South Caucasus, Russia will fail creating a new empire. Especially the Georgian President was right when he was saying that a special campaign was carried out in the countries which negotiations on the Association Agreement with the aim to identify the European values with homosexuality and to introduce in our country the idea that as if EU’s goal is to destroy our national identity, traditions, family, and belief. This campaign, as Saakashvili really thinks, was coordinated from the Kremlin, and its indirect evidence is that Putin’s recent speech on Valda forum repeated the main theses of this campaign.
However, the general ‘concept’, which lies at the heart of the Georgian President’s speech, is unacceptable to me, it, if we make it short, is the concept of the “black” and “white”. To the point: there is a “black,” aggressive, corrupted, hostile-to-the-whole-world Russia, and a bright, democratic and friendly-to-all-nations West. In fact, most of the accusations that were made by Saakashvili against Russia, he could repeat regarding the EU countries, especially the United States. Afghans, Iraqis, Syrians and many other nations are thinking about Americans exactly the same as Georgians about Russians. Every superpower is doing hooliganism in the region “trusted thereto”.
Of course, the head of the neighboring country is also exaggerating the achievements of Georgia under his ruling; in terms of quality of life, there are no significant differences between our two countries. But, with respect to justice, law and order, fight against corruption, and business liberalization, our neighbors, indeed, have made some success. I assume also due to the independence from Russia.
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ARAM ABRAHAMYAN
