Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 12 Aug.'08
President Saakashvili said Georgia would quit the Commonwealth ofIndependent States (CIS) and officially denounce Russian troops inAbkhazia and South Ossetia as “occupational forces.”
“We have decided to quit the CIS and to say farewell to the SovietUnion,” Saakashvili told a crowd of tens of thousands of people gatheredoutside Parliament. “We call on Ukraine and other members to also quitthe Russian-ruled CIS .”
“We have also decided to rescind the Russian peacekeepers’ mandate andto declare Abkhazia and South Ossetia occupied territories of Georgia,”he added.
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