GEORGIA: GEORGIAN PRESIDENT MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI MARKS FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF "ROSE REVOLUTION" AND SUPPORTS UKRAINIAN OPPOSITION LEADER

Record ID: 649407

  • Title: GEORGIA: GEORGIAN PRESIDENT MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI MARKS FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF "ROSE REVOLUTION" AND SUPPORTS UKRAINIAN OPPOSITION LEADER
  • Date: 23rd November 2004
  • Summary: (EU) TBILISI, GEORGIA (NOVEMBER 23, 2004) (REUTERS) HAV EXTERIOR OF HOLY TRINITY CATHEDRAL IN TBILISI AND SQUARE SLV GEORGIAN PRESIDENT MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI FOLLOWING ALTAR BOYS CARRYING GEORGIAN FLAG (0.18) VARIOUS OF SAAKASHVILI WITH PRIESTS CARRYING FLAGS (0.23) WIDE OF PROCESSION ENTERING CATHEDRAL (0.35) WIDE OF CATHEDRAL WITH CONGREGATION (0.42) SLV SAAKASHVILI BOWING AND CROSSING HIMSELF (0.46) WIDE OF ORTHODOX PRIESTS (0.52) SLV SAAKASHVILI WALKING TOWARDS CLERGY (0.58) WIDE OF CONGREGATION (1.03) WIDE OF SAAKASHVILI WITH PRIESTS (1.16) SCU (SOUNDBITE)(Ukrainian) GEORGIAN PRESIDENT MIKHAIL SAAKASHVILI, SAYING, "Dear Ukrainian friends and brothers I address to you at the day of Saint George and wish you success, peace, justice and victory." (1.26) WIDE OF CONGREGATION (1.31) VARIOUS OF SAAKASHVILI IN CATHEDRAL (1.41)
  • Embargoed: 8th December 2004 12:00
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  • Location: TBILISI, GEORGIA
  • Country: Georgia
  • Topics: General,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA52IXR9DWWPZIRR52HW6GQSA44
  • Story Text: Georgian President backs Ukrainian opposition leader Yushchenko.
    Ukraine's opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko on Tuesday (November 23) received support from a man who's been in the same position he finds himself in just now...and triumphed.
    A year ago exactly on Tuesday Georgia staged what became known as the "rose revolution" which toppled veteran leader Eduard Shevardnadze.
    The man who succeeded him, pro-westener Mikhail Saakashvili, marked the first anniversary of the mass revolt by opening a newly-built Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi.
    And he took the opportunity to address the Ukrainian people.
    Saakashvili wished them success and victory in their fight to have Yushchenko installed as the new President instead of Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich.
    But it was uncertain if Ukraine's liberals could force similar changes as Georgia achieved last year.
    There were dramatic scenes in the Georgian parliament when Saakashvili and his supporters stormed the chamber, calling on Shevardnadze to resign.
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