Saakashvili's speech has nothing to do with world's agenda, expert says

Incumbent President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili addressed the UN General Assembly this week. His speech was devoted to Russia, and  was blamed by the Russian Envoy to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin, as "not just anti-Russian, but Russophobic."

In his speech Saakashvili said that countries on Russia’s borders exist under “constant pressures and threats” from an “old empire” that “is trying to reclaim its bygone borders.”

The Georgian president slammed Russia’s recent Eurasian Union initiative – a proposed political and economic union consisting of primarily former Soviet states – as “fuelled by intolerance, led by old KGB structures" and "shaped to revive an old empire,” RIA Novosti reported.

Vestnik Kavkaza's expert Georgy Kalatozishvili says that Saakashvili's statement has nothing to do with the international community's agenda. According to Kalatozishvili, the Georgian president was talking to himself rather than to the United Nations.

"No one was going to discuss the Eurasian Union, Russia's imperial politics etc. The countries that, according to Saakashvili, are pressured by Russia had no intention of discussing their relations with Russia," he says.