15 November 2003, 15:14
Actions of protest in Tbilisi grow in scale
On November 14, the number of people holding a meeting in Tbilisi reached 30-35 thousand. The action of protest participants moved on to the Svoboda Square metro station, which is 150 meters from the building of the State Chancellery. The protesters were declaiming mottos like "Go away!" and "Resign!".
The meeting participants marched to Svoboda Square after the hour during which the National Movement leader Mikhail Saakashvili suggested that Eduard Shevardnadze appear before the people had been up. Saakashvili guaranteed that Shevardnadze would be protected from physical and verbal insults. The President did not show up in the meeting.
Speaking in public, Nino Burdjanadze and Zurab Zhvania, leaders of the Burdjanadze ? Democrats block, claimed that "the authorities of the country saw they had lost and the people would never yield to them again."
At the briefing for foreign journalists on November 14, Saakashvili asserted that demonstrators were not inclined "to storm" the building of the State Chancellery.
He said peaceful actions of protest claiming the President?s resignation and new parliamentary elections were starting all over Georgia. "We must have a government of national unity", stated Saakashvili.
Saakashvili promised to collect a million of votes of citizens for the President?s resignation.
Source: Prima News Agency
