But Mr Saakashvili faces a deal-breaking problem of his own: that bits of his country are, in effect, under occupation.
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He called on the Palestinians under occupation to elect new leaders, starting with local elections by the end of this year.
His neighbor complains that the additional U.S. troops in Baghdad mean he feels even more under occupation, but at the same time he reluctantly acknowledges his neighborhood feels more secure.
From April, unused bedrooms in social housing will be subject to an under-occupation charge under changes to the benefits system.
Unlike Jersey and Guernsey, where the inhabitants had to live under Nazi occupation, Alderney was evacuated before the Germans invaded.
Under German occupation life was hard - made worse by the worry over what had happened to the island's children.
There were thousands of cards of female prisoners from the areas near Moscow that were under German occupation during the war.
Under-occupation was much higher among owner occupiers : 49% as against 10% in the socially rented sector and 16% among private renters.
And so it's worth noting that Ms. Callas first sang the lead as a teenager in Athens while the city was under Nazi occupation.
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The others were established figures whose careers suffered under German occupation.
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They would rather we call it a 'spare room allowance' and point to the widespread issue of under-occupation while so many people have no bedroom of their own.
Mr Obama called for a "new beginning" between Muslims and the US and described the Palestinians' situation in exile in neighbouring countries and under Israeli occupation as "intolerable".
His reflections on the pogroms of Jews at the hands of their fellow Poles in Jedwabne under Nazi occupation and at Kielce after the war are piercingly well-judged.
Under the Occupation, as Braque continued to explore both the Vanitas and other potential Christian themes, his colors grew increasingly darker, to browns and black, reflecting the growing gloom of Paris.
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He was also a boozer, and in 1942, possibly under the strain of living in a country under German occupation, he sold most of the family's shares in the brewery that could trace its roots back to 1592.
Even some preachers loyal to the fiery Shia preacher Muqtada al-Sadr, who used to sneer at the notion of a fair vote under American occupation, have become far more pliant since he ended the uprising of his rebel Mahdi Army in the Shias' holiest city, Najaf, in August.
But under international law, occupation begins when territory is actually placed under the authority of an occupying force, according to the Pentagon.
This spring it finally reopened, reborn as the 1878-1918 gallery of the Sarajevo Museum, containing artefacts to do generally with Bosnia's occupation under the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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Dr Monaghan argued the type of resistance shown by Marie Ozanne was as forceful as could have been achieved under the circumstances of the occupation.
They frequently rebelled under Venetian and then Ottoman occupation, with southern strongholds like Sfakia (a rocky, barren territory centred on port village Hora Sfakion) remaining unconquered.
As a sweetener for Mr Moussa, the group agreed to include a recommendation that all states be held more rigorously to their obligations under international law, including the rules governing occupation.
In 1944, Germany announces its occupation of Hungary and the formation of a new government under Dome Sztojay.
In fact, the Constitution of Japan was written by the U.S. occupation authorities, whose head was General Douglas MacArthur, under direction of officials in Washington, D.
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The general had been under investigation after allegations, by the United Nations, of plundering during Uganda's occupation of parts of Congo.
Under a provision put into place in the early days of the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, security contractors have immunity from Iraqi prosecution.
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