Georgians to protest French president’s visit

Georgian social websites call for protests against French President Nikolas Sarkozy’s visit to Tbilisi, Trend reports.

The president will arrive in a month.

Citizens discontented with French efforts in settling the Georgian-Russian conflict are promoting protests. Social websites remind that Sarkozy failed to make Russia fulfil the agreement signed on August 12, 2008. Moreover, France has sold a Mistral helicopter carrier to Russia.

Some Georgian experts call these protests fruitless, others call them natural.

Georgian forces started a mass assault on South Ossetia on August 8, 2008. Russian forces pushed the Georgian military out of Tskhinvali. Russia recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in late August. In response Tbilisi broke off all diplomatic relations with Moscow and proclaimed the two breakaway republics “occupied territories”.