TBILISI. May 23 (Interfax) - One of the leaders of the opposition Popular Assembly organization, Nino Burjanadze, has said that "the Georgian army will not raise its hand against its own people."
"We have obtained information from a very reliable and informed source that to a proposal to raise a hand against its own people, if need be, the Georgian army declared a categorical refusal," Burjanadze said at a rally in front of the Public Television building on Monday.
The Popular Assembly must "create problems for the authorities" during a military parade in Tbilisi on the Georgian Independence Day on May 26.
"Before May 25 we must stay on the site of today's protest, and at noon on May 25 we will move in files towards Freedom Square, where a military parade will be due to take place the following day," Burjanadze said.
All actions by protestors will be purely peaceful, she said.