Democracy and Freedom Watch: “A lost Georgian letter & Europe’s idealist deficit”

In 1991 Georgia’s first President Zviad Gamsaxurdia wrote a letter to United States Secretary James Baker and pleaded for support in the name of democracy, peace and freedom.

Now, 23 years later, Georgia is an independent and democratic State, which is trying to close ties with Europe and NATO.

Tedo Japaridze, who in 1991 was Georgia's deputy Foreign Minister, has written an opinion piece published on the Democracy and Freedom Watch website that discussed the previous state of Georgia and how it strived to "return to Europe”.

Come 2014, we have a state and we have some means, and we have some allies. We have reformed and developed. We are not devastated but we are in need of the thrust that imbued our realism with drive. Even in the very dawn of our state we sought NATO and EU membership.

Read the full article on: www.dfwatch.net