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)