While Georgian opposition fights for releasing 43 opposition supporters in custody, stands for prosecuting CEC Chairman, L. Tarhnishvili for falsification of recent presidential elections and for changing of the public television’s leadership, present Georgian authorities are nervous at the idea of organizing fitting house party for important NATO quests.
The matter is that their visit to Georgia now is directed to show everybody here, in the West, that the bustle round Saakashvili’s failures in democratic reforms, as well as, talks about illegitimacy of recent presidential elections in his republic are ungrounded.
And there is no surprise that right now local media has begun to sing odes to Saakashvili’s team, as if it has achieved great success on its way to development of real democracy in Georgian society. Court-journalists have already published a lot of materials, given evidence of wide support of current president’s policy all over present-day Georgia. And I’m sure that a forthcoming visit of NATO’s representatives to Georgia will hit the headlines and will be presented as “a new and very important step on the road of Georgian integration to Alliance”.
But even successful fulfillment of US order to throw a “democratic light” upon Georgian reality shouldn’t fasten an idea of necessity of Georgian entry into NATO in 2008 in the mind of Europe. I think our European leaders should realize that not only Georgian Armed Forces but also the whole state of Georgia must meet high NATO standards. But after November disorders and recent scandals, connected with Georgian presidential elections most Europeans has serious doubts that Georgia is really successful on its road to real democracy. And no one can be persuaded of the contrary now…