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    PanARMENIAN.Net

    13 opposition parties issue Manifesto of Unity
    28.03.2009 12:17 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Thirteen opposition political groups announced on
    March 27, that they would coordinate efforts to organize peaceful
    protest rallies starting from April 9 to demand President
    Saakashvili's resignation.

    Eight parties have made a similar statement last month, but the recent
    announcement, with the named Manifesto of Unity, marks further
    increase of the group as the Alliance for Georgia, uniting New Rights
    Party, Republican Party and a political team of Irakli Alasania, has
    joined it. The Alliance for Georgia until now has showed reservations
    about the joining the group in charge of organizing the April 9 rally,
    but was holding consultations with it to, as it was saying, to agree
    on an exact action plan.

    Apart of the parties in the Alliance for Georgia, the manifesto has
    been joined by the following parties: Alliance for Freedom (uniting
    Party of Freedom; Party of Women for Justice and Equality;
    Traditionalists and Party of Future); Conservative Party (leaders `
    Kakha Kukava and Zviad Dzidziguri); Democratic Movement`United Georgia
    (led by Nino Burjanadze); Georgia's Way (led by Salome Zourabichvili);
    Industrialists Party (led by Zurab Tkemaladze and beer magnate Gogi
    Topadze); Movement for United Georgia (founded by ex-defense minister
    Irakli Okruashvili); Party of People (led by Koba Davitashvili). Levan
    Gachechiladze, a former opposition presidential candidate, has joined
    the document as an individual politician.

    `We reaffirm, that on April 9, 2009 we will launch a peaceful protest
    rally through which we will achieve Mikheil Saakashvili's resignation
    from the post of the president and appointment of early presidential
    elections,' the document reads.

    With the document the parties have also pledged that their action plan
    `will be agreed and coordinated with each other.'

    Opposition leaders said on March 27, that they will open dialogue with
    the authorities only on the terms of President Saakashvili's
    resignation, Civil.ge reported.
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