The working visit of Mikheil Saakashvili to the UK has been declared yet another foreign policy breakthrough. "Today, almost no one thinks of trying to isolate our country after the Russian aggression," Saakashvili said after his meetings in London. "These efforts have failed, primarily because out of spite towards our enemy, we have been successfully developing after the war," Saakashvili stated.
The formal reason for the visit of Mikheil Saakashvili to England was his participation in two international conferences of the summit of the International Union of Democrats and the conference of the Alliance of European conservatives and reformists under the patronage of the Prime Minister of Great Britain, which was held in those days in London.
The visit of President Saakashvili started with talks at the residence of the UK Prime Minister. Before the meeting with Cameron, the Georgian president put on a badge with a red poppy, thus expressing solidarity with the British and the tradition of Remembrance Day celebrated from November 11-12 and dedicated to all victims of war. "Britain and Georgia are connected via good friendship and close cooperation. We support the sovereignty and territorial integrity of your country, but we also support Georgia's accession to NATO" the British prime minister said.
At the meeting, Saakashvili recalled the support of David Cameron during the five-day war: "You have a special place in the heart of the Georgian people, because, as the opposition leader, you arrived in Tbilisi at the moment when the capital of our country was being bombarded," Saakashvili said.
Speaking after the meeting to reporters, the president announced that David Cameron thanked him not only for sending Georgian troops to Afghanistan, but also for the decision which allowed Russia to join the WTO. "Once again we saw how right US Vice-President Biden was when he called our decision" historic." It really was a historic decision of Georgia. It is not just the fact that Georgia met the need of its friends on the issue of Russia's accession to the WTO but, most importantly, for the first time in history the country was able to establish an international monitoring group on its borders in Abkhazia and South Ossetia," Saakashvili said. President Saakashvili concluded that "Georgia has become an important factor in international policy and even of domestic policy in France and other great countries."
Mikhail Saakashvili also noted at the summit of the International Union of Democrats that he and Georgia believe in an open economy as the guarantor of economic growth as well as liberal principles, which were formed several centuries ago in England. Saakashvili also remembered that as a child he was forced to learn Marxist dialectics instead of the teachings of great English philosophers, but resisted and continued to dream about England.
From speeches in favor of liberal values, Mikhail Saakashvili smoothly shifted to criticism of Vladimir Putin and said that when the Soviet Union collapsed, the dream of millions was realized and no one felt the nostalgia which is so common with Vladimir Putin. Saakashvili also said that Putin aims to restore the Soviet Union.
