TBILISI. Jan 12 (Interfax-AVN) - Georgia is not going to house U.S. military bases on its territory, president-elect Mikhail Saakashvili told a news conference on Monday.
"The country's territory should be guarded and protected only by national troops," he said.
Commenting on Russia's military bases stationed in Georgia, he said that "we favor a human approach. We should not humiliate either the officers or the soldiers deployed there."
Saakashvili said that Georgia and Russia will join forces to find funds to finance the bases' withdrawal. "Others will probably help us," he said.