The recent events in Georgia - demonstrative and absolutely unjustified barbarity of the police against participants of a peaceful rally, closure of opposition media outlets, imposition of restrictions on free dissemination of information, and finally imposition of emergency rule due to political reasons (that was abolished only by an insistent advice from overseas) - are absolutely unacceptable for a democratic state

It is understood by everybody or almost by everybody. News agencies reported earlier that even NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer apparently failing to accord his thoughts with Washington criticized the imposition of emergency rule in Georgia. In particular he emphasized that the imposition of emergency rule and closure of media outlets in Georgia are “not in line with the Euro Atlantic values” that were promised to be adhered to by Georgia when this country entered in the NATO-Georgia Individual Partnership Action Plan.

It seemed that Saakashvili himself made a painful impact upon the image of the Georgian regime that could made an obstruction to admitting Georgia to NATO. Nothing of the kind! An overseas patron of Georgia and true master of the puppet regime of Saakashvili, the United States of America, employs other standards to interpret the use of police batons to crush the heads of those who attempted to protest against anti-people policy of Saakashvili.

Deputy Assistant of the US Secretary of State Mathew Bryza said in Tbilisi that imposition of the emergency rule and restrictions on TV and radio broadcasting inflicted certain harm to the image of Georgia as a democratic country. But at the same time, nobody wants to draw the situation in Georgia in dark colors, in the country that lately made serious success in reforming different spheres, and in consolidation of law and democracy, the US envoy said.

What “serious success” in consolidation of law and democracy we may speak about when the people are imprisoned without any court decision and investigation, only because they are not agree with the Saakashvili’s policy and make public his illicit actions. Isn’t it proved out by the example of Ex-Minister of Defense Irakli Okruashvili who was arrested, imprisoned and exiled from the country?

And what about the use police batons, mass gassing of a peaceful rally, its dispersion by using a special acoustic system (designed by the order of the US Special Forces for combat operations in Iraq), which powerful acoustic impulse that is thousand times higher than the human sensation level, brings pain on the ears, generates a feeling of unexplainable fear, insuperable panic and mental disorders? American envoy M.Bryza said nothing about it.

But he spoke about the main thing that Saakashvili worried about in the time of troubles in Georgia, about the prospects of joining NATO. As quoted to Bryza, many our counterparts ask us (the USA) if the recent events can or cannot hamper the admission of Georgia to NATO. Until and unless Georgia distances itself from NATO and from the transition to the alliance admission action plan, we will not agree with a statement that any obstacles may appear on this road.

In other words, NATO doors are open for Georgia in any circumstances. And as for the barbarous dispersion of the opposition rally in the streets of Tbilisi, the opposition itself is guilty because it selected “a non-constructive approach”, Bryza believes.

The American Congress will open the doors for Georgia to NATO even without settlement of the territorial problems between Georgia and Abkhazia and Southern Ossetia that is not permitted in the NATO Charter. It seems that this admission will be similar to the admission of the Baltic countries to NATO when many requirements of the Charter to the candidate-states were just ignored and, and the mutual interest of the parties to each other prevailed.

In case of Georgia, this mutual interest in obvious – in the USA the admission of Georgia to NATO is supported both by the democrats and the republicans, and in Georgia the admission to the alliance is favored not only by Saakashvili, but also his by opponents – contenders at the Presidential elections who already claimed that they are for the admission of the Republic to NATO and consider the USA a strategic partner of Georgia.

Motivation of the US double-standard game in the Caucasus is clear – Americans do their best to force out Russian from this area and curb its influence on Georgia, and make persistent efforts to pull Georgia in NATO in spite of any breaches of the democratic norms and Euro Atlantic values by the Georgian ruling regime in order to establish a bridgehead in the Caucasus to pursue its policy aimed at disintegration of Russia, and make new threats to us from the southern direction.

The other aspect of this motivation is hundred years old. America needs Caucasian oil and other mineral resources, Black Sea ports, concessions and super-profits from exploitation of local cheap natural and human resources. In this context, Washington in no case assumes that this unique chance to dominate in this so important region might be lost.