Georgi Kalatozishvili, Tbilisi, exclusively to VK
The Russian delegation left the meeting hall of the General Assembly of the United Nations during the speech of President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili. During his last speech at the General Assembly , Saakashvili, whose presidency ends in a month, predicted the imminent end of the "Russian Empire" due to the "shale revolution" and the development of the Internet in Russia .
Russia's permanent representative to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, after Saakashvili's speech , said: " It was not even speech but a set of nonsense which was not just anti-Russian but anti-Orthodox and Russophobian. Fortunately for the Georgian people, the end of the political career of this man, whose mental condition requires professional judgment, is close".
President Saakashvili arrived in New York with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Maya Pandzhikidze , which until recently worked as a press secretary of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili. When before the speech by head of state the reporters asked her whether the foreign ministry participated in the preparation of the presidential “speech", Pandzhikidze replied that she read it and even asked to make some adjustments, but "before the speech she cannot comment on anything".
The last speech of President Saakashvili was unprecedentedly critical regarding Russia. According to the Georgian president, "the Eurasian Union is an attempt to recreate the empire in a new form", and, "in the Russian Empire there never were any borders, there were only margins”, but in order to confront the imperial project, the nations seeking real independence have to endure the onslaught of Moscow. "Armenia is subjected to tremendous pressure to enter the Eurasian Union, Moldova is under siege , Ukraine is attacked, Azerbaijan is under the pressure, and Georgia is occupied", the Georgian leader listed the woes of the neighbors of Russia.
Explaining why Russia is infinitely opposed to Georgia , Saakashvili said that the Russian government is "very afraid of Georgian reforms and their distribution in other post-Soviet countries", because if Georgia had achieved the ultimate success of the reform, "the citizens of Russia would ask their leaders: " Why Georgia, an entirely corrupt country in the recent past, was able to do this, and we cannot follow its example?” "That is why since 2006 we have been subjected to an embargo, and then to direct aggression”, the Georgian reformer concluded.
He predicted the imminent departure of Vladimir Putin from the Kremlin. The overthrow of Putin, he said, will happen for two main reasons: "increasing the number of Internet users in Russia and the shale revolution". According Saakashvili’s forecast, "after Putin, either nationalist or liberal, or both, will come to power in Russia, but in any case, Russia will cease to be an empire and acquire finally its borders". The "rose revolution" leader called Russia "the last empire in the world" and hinted that it is still a "prison of nations". "Chechens, Ingush, Tatars and Bashkirs do not feel part of the Kremlin project" - the outgoing president explained, mentioning in this context Imam Shamil, who fought against Russia in the XIX century, as well as the recognition of the "Circassian genocide" by the Georgian parliament.
Finally, Saakashvili reiterated that Russia's neighbors made a "final decision " in favor of the European Union. "The Eurasian Union is our past, while Europe is ruled by meritocracy which defeated nepotism, otherwise why are all the people knocking on its door?", he listed the advantages of the EU, accusing Moscow of "organizing performances in the Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, the organizers of which scare people with gay parades and lie that supposedly the EU will soon destroy churches and build Disneylands instead of them".
This speech certainly will enter the history of Georgia, if not in the history of diplomacy. The outgoing president , who has repeatedly said that he does not plan to leave politics, has once again demonstrated that he is ready " to rebel " against the current world order and the global agenda. No one has talked at the UN about the Eurasian Union as a threat to peace and stability, as well as the "dangerous imperial project". The leaders of those countries which, according to the president of Georgia, are under the pressure of Russia which is trying to make them enter the empire, also have not talked about this. Judging from the speeches by the Western leaders and the leaders of the absolute majority of UN member states, the modern world community has a completely different agenda that is fundamentally different from the agenda of Saakashvili.
