BLOOMBERG TV Exclusive With Georgia's Saakashvili This Weekend

BLOOMBERG TV Exclusive With Georgia's Saakashvili This Weekend

NEW YORK, August 31/PRNewswire/ --

This weekend on the BLOOMBERG TELEVISION(R) program "For the Record,"
Georgia President Mikheil Saakashvili and Bloomberg's Ryan Chilcote tour
Georgia and discuss the country's economic liberalization, plans to improve
infrastructure and the current political climate. The exclusive in-depth
interview will air across the UK, Middle East, and Eastern and Western Europe
on Saturday, September 1 at 11:30 GMT with repeats throughout the weekend.

In 2006, the World Bank dubbed Georgia under President Saakashvili 'the
number one economic reformer in the world,' ranking the nation as 37th in its
Ease of Doing Business Survey, up from 112th a year earlier. Under
Saakashvili, Georgia has lowered export duties and liberalized manufacturing
regulations to attract foreign direct investors to the region and counter the
effects of the Russian Federation's undeclared trade embargo on Georgian
goods since 2006. "Georgia will hopefully get to the top 20 places in the
world ... Top 20 ... it's a very elite club," Saakashvili tells Bloomberg.

During the interview Saakashvili comments upon strained relations with
Russia, which have escalated in recent weeks with Georgia's claim that a
Russian military aircraft dropped a missile into the territory and its
report, denied by the Russian Air Force, of firing on a Russian military
aircraft that had crossed into Georgian airspace. Saakashvili tells
Bloomberg, "Georgia has acted as a responsible European nation," and calls
for a NATO investigation. U.S.-educated Saakashvili has garnered U.S. support
for NATO membership in 2010. Georgia currently has two thousand troops at the
Iraq border, the third largest supporter of the war behind the United States
and the United Kingdom.

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