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Visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden reacts after receiving an award from Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili, background, during a reception in honor of Biden, Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, July 22. AP U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden's visit to Georgia is a "historic" event, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said.

"A policy aimed at restoring Georgia's territorial integrity and addressing its future was effectively outlined yesterday," Saakashvili said at a meeting with representatives of the parliamentary majority on Friday.

"All stereotypes of our enemy were destroyed yesterday, including those claiming that Georgia has no future, that it has been isolated, or that it is necessary to change its government. All of these stereotypes imposed by our enemy sound ridiculous after yesterday's support given to Georgia," the president said.

"We have achieved both our short-term and long-term objectives. Our short-term objective was to inform the world of all of [Russian Prime Minister Vladimir] Putin's plans to again occupy Georgia and to overthrow its current authorities. And the U.S. made it clear that it would not allow this to happen," he said.

Addressing Georgia's long-term goal, Saakashvili stressed the importance of recognition of "new dividing lines between the democratic world and Russia's authoritarianism."

"The adoption of the new Berlin line, which crosses Georgia's territories occupied by Russia, is already an international concept. Biden announced it in Tbilisi as well. It is a line between democracy and totalitarianism," the Georgian president said.

Saakashvili advised "admirers" of Russia in Georgia to reconsider their views because "recognition of independence cannot be received from aggressors."