TBILISI. May 25 (Interfax) - Opposition demonstrators, in the course of a procession on Wednesday, occupied the seating area near a platform in front of the parliament building in the capital Tbilisi from which President Mikheil Saakashvili is due to review a military parade on Thursday.
Police were making no attempts to oust the demonstrators from the area.
One of the demonstration organizers, former parliament speaker Nino Burjanadze, told reporters that, in notifying the mayor's office about the demonstration, the organizers had said the site of the action would be an area next to the mayor's office, which lies 200 meters from the parliament headquarters.
The organizers had announced that the demonstrators would march through Liberty Square, where the mayor's office stands, but the marchers changed their mind after setting off from the Public Television headquarters.
The procession brought together more than 3,000 people.