After Obama and Medvedev, Qaddafi, and Ahmadinejad, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili spoke at the UN General Assembly, which will last until 30 September.
Virtually all commentators had suggested that the Georgian president will be complaining about Russia, but he has unexpectedly recalled Chechnya.
Defiantly replying to a statement from the same platform by the present formal leader of the Kremlin Medvedev, Mikhail Saakashvili, said:
"Some in this room claimed, he had been "forced to do" what he did in Georgia a year ago. And their predecessors "were forced and had to" invade Poland in 1939, Finland in 1940, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Afghanistan in 1979, they "had to" wipe off the face of earth the 400 thousand city of Grozny, to destroy and exterminate the proud Chechen people and kill tens of thousands of innocent people - women and children”.
We must point ...