The agreement must be based on three basic things... - Mikheil Saakashvili on the Process of National Agreement

Mikheil Saakashvili responds to the ongoing meetings initiated by Salome Zurabishvili about the national agreement process and releases a statement:

"I supported Salome Zurabishvili's initiative on national accord from the very beginning, and I still like the general idea. Of course, it is doubtful that the process will lead us to the same assessments as in the past.
 There is no such common assessment in most parts of the world, and people there somehow live and find common ground.

For example, Ms. Salome thinks our "9 years" have been very negative. 70% of our people in surveys have positive associations with those years. So I think agreement has to be based on 3 main things:

1. Forget the past grievances and leave it behind;

2. Agreement on new rules of the game from today;

3. Develop a shared vision for the future.

If all of this goes well, I would be only too glad. I am just pondering the two coincidences in time. First, this process began last year, when the streets were boiling, and the emerging expectations did go some way toward lowering the protest fever. There was a break in January, and now that the political processes, including the protest spark, have quickly started up again, the "agreement process" has resumed in parallel.

I am far from the opinion that this is about Mrs. President, but I do not want the real political process to be replaced by imitation and mulching. We are all ready to help the President fill the content of the process and I wholeheartedly support her in this, but at the same time, let's get on with the other business together!

Remember, we don't have the time or luxury of parlor talk. We must all unite, we must confront the current situation, hold early elections and save the country," Mikhail Saakashvili wrote.