President's Television Address

“We will keep fighting until the last occupants leave Georgia,” Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili stated in his televised address to the nation from Colombia on August 7.

The President said that Russia started its aggression against Georgia much earlier than August, 2008 and there is no need to consider separate dates as this aggression is still continuing. “This fight will go on, until the last occupant leaves Georgia’s soil, justice is revived and the thousands of Georgian citizens of different ethnicity who were forced to leave their homes, return to their homes,” Saakashvili stated. He said that in 2008 Georgians had to take up arms again to protect “the dignity of our homeland” highlighting that each of us has to get involved daily in this fight to pay tribute to those fallen heroes.

“Each of us cannot lose even a day in this fight to protect our positions, before the enemy stands in Georgia, before Georgia’s soil is occupied and before Georgia is not completely free. Our historic task is to bring the fight to the end and we will do it. We will keep fighting until our country revives again,” the president said. “It is a historic task of our generation to accomplish this struggle and to liberate Georgia; we will accomplish this struggle and completely liberate our country,” Saakashvili concluded.