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"Mr President, as well as being of great religious and cultural importance to us, Georgia is also a strategically important partner for the EU. President Mikheil Saakashvili is a controversial figure, however, and in May alone 80 000 people demonstrated against him. Democracy is formally assured by free and secret ballots, however political and civil rights and control of state powers are often limited. Shortly before his second and last term of office comes to an end, Mr Saakashvili has strengthened the position of the premier, so that political analysts suspect he is preparing for a legal bid for power. Clearly some lessons have been learned from Georgia’s unpopular neighbours in the Kremlin, in other words Russia. Thus, we need to take care here to ensure that these infant democracies, which are eyeing the financial resources of the EU with interest – I would remind you that Georgia subscribes to the European Neighbourhood Policy – also play by the democratic rules; after all neither covert dictators nor the oligarchs mentioned have any place in our value system. We need to make this clear to them."@en1
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