The Second Georgian Dream is About to Come True

... when it came to Georgia’s comprehensive integration into the European Union and NATO and shared its predecessor’s view that Abkhazia and South Ossetia were parts of Georgian territory. The only addition was the diplomatic principle of “negotiating ... ... bowed to Western demands on issues where it did not see a threat to itself: phasing out of the majority vote in parliamentary elections, which was enshrined in the new Constitution; backing Saakashvili’s former Foreign Minister Salome Zourabichvili,...