Saakashvili seeks support in parliamentary elections from Barack Obama

President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili is meeting today in the USA with Barack Obama. This year both countries celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The presidents will discuss the future strengthening of the US-Georgian strategic partnership, particularly in the sheres of trade, tourism, energy consumption, science, education, culture and security.

This is going to be the first meeting between Obama and Saakashvili held in the White House.

Western experts believe that the main agenda of the meeting is the participation of Georgia in a possible war between Iran and the US. Saakashvili will most probably allow American forces to use the territory of Georgia in their war against Iran.

The pro-Western Georgian opposition believes that the Iranian conflict will not be at the center of the US-Georgian meeting. The former ambassador of Georgia to the OSCE, Viktor Dolidze, told Vestnik Kavakaza that the parliamentary elections will be the main focus of the planned meeting.

Georgian experts believe that during the visit of Saakashvili to the US the Georgian president will try to secure Obama's support  in the upcoming parliamentary elections in Georgia.