TBILISI. April 3 (Interfax-AVN) - Only 10% of the Georgian population share the position of the country's leadership on the support to the military operation in Iraq that is being held by the United States and its allies.
"Our poll has shown that only 10% of the country's population support U.S. actions in Iraq and the position of Georgian leaders who voiced their support to the anti-Iraq coalition. 82% percent are against it and 8% said they did not care about the matter," co-chairman of the Ertoba (Unity) political alliance Alexander Chachia told Interfax-Military News Agency on Thursday.
Ertoba is one of the most influential political parties in Georgia and has some 80,000 members.
Chachia said that the party will hold a series of rallies against the war in Iraq near the buildings of the U.S. embassy and Georgian State Chancellor's Office in Tbilisi next week.
"The majority of the polled people think that the United States practically destroyed the established system of international security by its actions," Chachia noted.
He considered groundless Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze's expectations that the United States will help Georgia solve the Abkhaz problem after the war in Iraq.
"Taking into account Iraqi lessons the U.S. will not engage in another bloody conflict, especially near Russian borders," Chachia added.