Tbilisi, January 12 (Interfax-AVN) - The leader of Georgia's Labor Party Shalva Natelashvili has said U.S. Senator John McCain played a part in bringing current President Mikheil Saakashvili to power.
"McCain continues patronizing and lobbying terrorist and dictator Mikheil Saakashvili," Natelashvili said at a news conference on Jan. 11.
"With the Bush grouping, McCain is responsible for the anti-constitutional coup in Georgia, called ‘the Rose Revolution’ and for Saakashvili’s coming to power," he said.
"This tragedy ended up with the loss of independence, with Georgia becoming a colony and with the state’s breakup and destruction. We again urge the U.S. Congress to investigate the activities of politicians who have staged the Trotskyite color revolutions globally, squandering billion of dollars, undermining the United States’ authority and, ultimately, bringing the blood-thirsty Saakashvili and five percent Yushchenko to power," he said.
During McCain’s meeting with Georgian opposition leaders in Batumi on Monday, Natelashvli said that he had not attended the meeting because he had been campaigning against McCain for six years and did not want to see him.
