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Saakashvili: Georgia will enter NATO and EU and return 'occupied' lands

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Aug. 7, 2012, 11:47 a.m. | World — by Interfax-Ukraine

"We will unite our country and return our lands by all means… Russia will never be able to swallow the occupied lands of central Georgia as no invader has been able to do," Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said.
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Tbilisi - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili visited several Georgian villages near the South Ossetian border on Monday evening and promised their residents that Georgia would return the "occupied" lands and that it would enter NATO and the European Union. 

"We will unite our country and return our lands by all means… Russia will never be able to swallow the occupied lands of central Georgia as no invader has been able to do," he said.

"Georgia will definitely join the European Union and it will definitely become a NATO member. Nobody can prevent us from doing that," Saakashvili said. 

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IvanovPetrovSidorov Aug. 7, 2012, 12:30 p.m.    

Fat chance!

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paul nicholson Aug. 7, 2012, 9:58 p.m.    

Your right he does look like he ate all the pies.

But he is actually competing at the Olympics hoping for gold in the tie eating competition.

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cedrik Aug. 7, 2012, 3 p.m.    

So I guess he's going to attack again. He must have forgotten what happened to him the last time he attacked Russian troops.

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from eu Aug. 7, 2012, 8:16 p.m.    

saakashvili you are right,jointing eu and nato,you shall have more than 800 milions people protecting you and your country,wellcome georgia

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kpxoxol Aug. 8, 2012, 10:03 p.m.    

SuckASSvili should get yet another present from E Ukraine in memory of the humiliating defeat of the US-armed and trained gruzin army in just 3 days of fighting - another box of running shoes for his generals and set of neck ties little fuhrer in Tbilisi can chew on as he did for great laughs of the civilized humanity, HA HA HA, gasp, HO HO HO :D

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kpxoxol Aug. 8, 2012, 10:06 p.m.    

"Georgia will definitely join the European Union ... "

He should hurry up till the EU still exists, because the BROKE & SINKING EU disintegrates as we speak, heh, heh, heh :D

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