http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4715443,00.htmlThursday January 6, 2005 4:16 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili agreed Thursday that democracies in the former Soviet republics need to be bolstered.
Specifically, they discussed the case of Ukraine, where a hotly disputed runoff election led to a second vote on Dec. 26. Saakashvili vacationed in the western Carpathian mountains this week with losing presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovych.
In a phone call Thursday, Bush and Saakashvili agreed on ``the need to strengthen democratic institutions and strengthen democracy,'' White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. ``They agreed on the importance of working together, including with Russia, to find peaceful political solutions to political conflicts in the region.''
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