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Six Georgian opposition parties have signed an agreement on setting up the National Council to confront "the authorities' criminal policies". Tbilisi, March 16 (Interfax) - Six Georgian opposition parties have signed an agreement on setting up the National Council to confront "the authorities' criminal policies," Zurab Nogaideli, the leader of the opposition party Movement for a Fair Georgia, told journalists on March 16.

"The document that we have signed says, in particular, that [President] Mikheil Saakashvili's anti-national and anti-popular policy is assuming a dangerous scale and threatens the Georgian statehood, and this is why the National Council is being formed," Nogaideli said.

Other parties sharing the National Council goals can join it, he said.