Georgia's Saakashvili urges dialogue with rivals
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Friday called for dialogue with the opposition as street protests demanding his resignation entered a second day.
"We have no alternative to dialogue and sharing responsibility," Saakashvili told reporters. He urged "unity across the political spectrum."
Some 60,000 Georgians rallied on Thursday in a bid to force Saakashvili's resignation, accusing him of stifling democratic reforms and embroiling the former Soviet republic in a disastrous war with Russia last year.
(Reporting by Margarita Antidze, editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
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