Washington (News and Us)-the United States Wednesday expressed supported democratic reform efforts and the State of Georgia became a member of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union.
Secretary of State John Kerry delivered the support it on a jump press Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is visiting the u.s., reports AFP.
"We strongly support aspirations of Georgia regarding NATO and Europe. And we commend the ongoing democratic transition, "said Kerry.
Saakashvili thanked Kerry, who served as senator for 30 years before serving as a Minister for the u.s., for being "the first person to come help us" when Russia and Georgia are engaged in a brief war in 2008.
"We want American support for NATO, we would like to support Us for the further integration of Europe at a very difficult stage for democracy and the viability of Georgia," said the President.
He pointed to the tension between himself and Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, a ruling coalition after milyarder oposisinya defeated the ruling party of Saakashvili in the parliamentary elections in October last year, ending a nine-year dominance of the Party President.
Saakashvili, whose term in Office ends in October, and his party accused the Government of destroying the reform of demokratisnya and keep Georgia from the pro-Western path when the ex-Soviet Republic's attempts to join NATO and the EU.
Ivanishvili denied the allegations.
On 10 April, Ivanishvili said, Georgia will investigate again the defeat a war with Russia in 2008 to find out if President Mikheil Saakashvili include people who need to blame.
In the outcry against his rival tersengitnya, accused the President of Ivanishvili handle preparations leading up to the war.
"I also thought our Government led President acting as inadequate in that situation," said Ivanishvili at a news conference.
"I consider unjustified at all army units was alerted and began military action done before the Russia we crossed the border," he said.
An independent report which formed the European Union in 2009 blamed Georgia for starting the war with Russia but said Moscow's military response, beyond the limits of reasoned and violate international law.
The report called on both sides in violation of international humanitarian law and found evidence of ethnic cleansing against the citizens of Georgia in the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
Saakashvili said Georgia responded to the invasion by Russia troops when they invaded the territory of South Ossetia. More than 100,000 civilians on both sides fled at the height of the conflict, and some of them can not go back.
Russia's troops entered Georgia to break Georgia's military efforts to master the longer South Ossetia on 7-8 August 2008. The five-day war that erupted in August, when Tbilisi sought to restore her to the military forces in the region of South Ossetia, which broke away from Georgia in 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Georgia and Russia remain at odds after a brief war between them in 2008.
South Ossetia and Abkhazia broke away from Georgia in the early 1990s, the separatist regions. second depends almost completely on Russia for financial assistance, military and diplomatic. (M014)
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