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    UNM OFFERS TO MAKE PRO-WESTERN COURSE CONSTITUTIONALLY GUARANTEED

    Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 31 Jan.'13 / 18:21

    A day after proposing making Georgia's pro-Western foreign policy
    course legally binding through passing a law, President Saakashvili's
    UNM party offered on January 31 to make such legal guarantees even
    stronger by introducing a relevant clause in the country's
    constitution.

    "We welcome the [Georgian Dream] parliamentary majority's declared
    desire to remain on the European path of development and offer them to
    jointly prepare draft of constitutional amendments... to reaffirm that
    Georgia's only future is European future and that Georgia's
    Euro-Atlantic integration should continue," Davit Bakradze, leader of
    the UNM parliamentary minority group, said.

    Davit Usupashvili, the parliamentary chairman, said on January 30
    after UNM announced about intention to initiate a draft law on
    "irreversibility of foreign policy course" that Georgian Dream offered
    UNM on January 18 to launch a work on a joint "inter-faction agreement
    on foreign policy course".

    "So this process is already launched," Usupashvili said. "There is
    already a draft document and if the UNM has a desire to get involved
    in the process we only welcome it. It is less important what kind of
    form it will have - whether it will be a law, resolution or an
    agreement. What matters most is that we should be able to elaborate a
    long-term strategy in respect of major issues; it is inadmissible to
    have dramatic changes, especially in the foreign policy, once in four
    years."

    President Saakashvili said on January 31, that such constitutional
    amendment was necessary against the background of PM Bidzina
    Ivanishvili's remarks in Yerevan, which Saakashvili said, amounted to
    "Armenization" of Georgia's foreign policy.

    Saakashvili said that such constitutional provision was needed "if we
    seriously are not intending to play Putinist game about our return to
    the Soviet empire."

    "I hope that the parliamentary majority will consider this proposal
    seriously and will not consider it as yet another propagandistic
    trick, it's not about PR, it's about Georgia's future," Saakashvili
    said.

    He made the remarks while visiting a factory run by Defense Ministry's
    military industrial enterprise Delta.

    http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=25700

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