Russia aiming to take over Georgia - Saakashvili
BERLIN, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Russia intends to take over his country to secure energy supply routesfrom central Asia and to begin ridding the region of democracies.
"They want the whole of Georgia," Saakashvili said in an interview onSunday with Germany's Rhein-Zeitung newspaper.
"The Russians need control over energy routes from central Asia and theCaspian Sea," he said in the interview to be published in the paper's Monday edition.
"In addition, they want to get rid of us, they want regime change," headed. "Every democratic movement in this neighbouring region must begot rid of."Saakashvili said he had spoken to U.S. President George W. Bush who hadsignalled his "full support".
"He understands that it's not really about Georgia but in a certainsense it's also an aggression against America," he told the paper.
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