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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili: â€œAzerbaijan-Georgia union is stronger than everâ€

07 March 2012 12:00 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. â€œAzerbaijan and Georgia are ancient nations, but very young independent states. Our countries have always faced similar dangers. Not only political partnership unites us, our relations are not only connected with similar dangers, these roots are deeper. Our cultures and cuisines have always been and will be interrelated,â€ Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said addressing the Azerbaijani parliament, APA reports.

â€œEven the most severe repressions could not kill our aspirations for freedom. The events happening in Russia today donâ€™t differ from those that happened 100 years ago. Mahammad Amin Rasulzadehâ€™s dreams didnâ€™t die and became a reality 20 years ago. The Soviet Union collapsed, as the people could not tolerate any more how this country tried to stop the march of history. Now there is no way back. Now Georgia and Azerbaijan have created a state that can not be destroyed. We live in 2012 and all must understand that the attempts to revive the Soviet Union are doomed to failure in 2012. People will not give up their freedom and independence and opportunity to choose their own path freely. Russia will also come to this conclusion and understand that it is better to have strong neighbors than unstable vassals, it is better to have partners than enemies. I do not want to see Russia weak. Actually, I wish to see proud, self-confident Russian Federation, not the Russia telling its population myths.â€

Mikheil Saakashvili said that Azerbaijan-Georgia union is stronger than ever: â€œThe merits of President Ilham Aliyev and convergence of the views of the administrations of the two states played great role in it. We want to raise our alliance to the highest level in the future. We discussed concrete and effective projects yesterday and these projects are equally beneficial to our peopleâ€.

Mikheil Saakashvili cited to the novel â€œAli and Ninoâ€ and said that now Azerbaijan and Georgia are able to jointly rewrite the ending of this novel: â€œWe can turn tragic past to a happy ending. We can and must do so that the love of Ali and Nino is no more broken by foreign invaders, today’s Ali and Nino can live in the flourishing countries, away from war. Surely it will be so.â€