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The
strained relations between members of government indicate that an “acute
crisis of power” is being observed in Georgia and that the president of the
country should take appropriate measures to overcome it, states the leader of a
parliamentary group “New Fraction”, David Gamgrelidze.
Gamgrelidze told in an interview to a Georgian agency “Prime News”
that if the Justice Minister Michael Saakashvili expresses distrust towards the
Office of Public Prosecutor, it means that either the Prosecutor’s Office
should be dissolved or the head of the Ministry of Justice should be dismissed.
He says it is time to put an end to the extensively hushed up but still
aggravating contradictions between leading “Union of Georgian Citizens”,
State Office and Parliament of the country. Otherwise these will bring a
misfortune to Georgia, claims Gamgrelidze.
In his opinion, an introduction of prime-minister institution and a
formation of Georgian government under the principle of a single team may serve
as a solution to the present situation.
A few days ago the Justice Minister Michael Saakashvili accused the
Minister of Economy, Industry and Trade Ivane Chkhartishvil of having certain
“personal interests” in the joint-stock company “Chiaturmagnesium” and
Zestafoni ferroalloy plant.
In response, Chkhartishvili demanded a thorough investigation of the
accusations by the Office of Public Prosecutor.
Saakashvili replied, in turn, that he does not trust the Office of Public
Prosecutor, which, he claims, has not arrested a single person involved in
corruption yet.
The
so-called “Chechen issue” also considerably influences the situation in
Georgia.
The Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee of Defense and National
Security in Georgia, George Baramidze, adheres to this opinion.
According to the parliamentarian’s information, some people
“propagating separatist ideas as well as Wahabbis are present” in the
Pankisi Gorge, place of residence of Chechen people. He believes that there are
no guaranties of maintaining stability and, yet, no apparent danger of conflict
onset in the region. Despite the problems at hand, in the opinion of Baramidze,
as a whole, the Georgian authorities keep the situation under their control.
The parliamentarian states that Tbilisi does not support the “Chechen
separatists” since Tbilisi “does not benefit neither in emotional nor in
pragmatic way”.
In his opinion, by charging Tbilisi for supporting Chechen Mujahideen,
“the Russian government attempts either to blame Georgia for its failures in
Chechnya or to involve the country in the war”.
George Baramidze noted that at the end of March in the UN Security
Council the Russian representatives put a veto on the document, worked out by
the international organization, concerning the status of Abkhazia as a part of
Georgia. “Russia, verbally recognizing the territorial integrity of Georgia,
practically is demonstrating the contrary”, he remarked in an interview to the
Russian “Nezavisimaya Gazeta” (“Independent Newspaper”).
He believes that this can also be testified by the introduction of a
privileged visa policy for the unrecognized republics of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia.
The parliamentarian suggests that “the politics of Russia, based on
imperialistic thinking, lead to the creation of an “instability belt” around
itself”.
George Baramidze also remarked that “from the military viewpoint it is
absolutely senseless for Russia to have military bases in Georgia; they play
only a political role, while representing seats of possible destabilization on
the territory of Georgia”.
Representatives
of the Chechen government, in their turn, strongly disagree with the statements
that “separatist sprouts” are ripening in the Pankisi Gorge. Our
correspondent was old at the Chechen representative office in Tbilisi that such
statements are not new.
They only reflect the variable degree of political partiality of a given
Georgian politician.
Both Moscow and certain forces in Georgia wish to use the “Chechen card”
for destabilization in the country.
The official representatives of the Chechen Republic Ichkeria,
however,consider these plans as very unlikely to come true.
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