"I can promise you one thing: I will be fully engaged with every effort I can make for this country," Georgia's fifth president, Salome Zurabishvili, said at a rally in Zugdidi.

According to Salome Zurabishvili, Georgia has rarely had as many friends in Europe and America as it does now.

"We are now in a struggle that will undoubtedly end in victory; there is no other option left for anyone. We are together in this. I am with you, and you can rely on me, but I no less rely on you—all of you, each of you—because this is a struggle that cannot be won by a single leader or by relying on someone else while you sit at home waiting for things to happen on their own. No, this will happen only if we are all fully engaged, as we are today and as we will be tomorrow.

I can promise you one thing: I will be fully engaged with every effort I can make for this country. This effort begins abroad because, by profession, I was born not as a politician but as a diplomat, and diplomacy is something I am probably better at. On your behalf, and in the name of Zugdidi, I will go to Washington. There, today, I have many friends who care deeply about Georgia and who are doing everything they can—more than we ask of them. They are doing everything to protect this country's future from the claws of our northern non-friend. This is very important because Georgia has rarely had so many friends, whether in Europe or America. This is our strength, but we must also understand that these friends are so active today because of you, because you stand where you stand. If there weren’t such a diverse protest in every city, with every segment of society involved, they wouldn’t feel as strongly their obligation to help us in every way they can.

Everything is interconnected—the support of friends from abroad, the protest within the country, and your efforts to make this protest as visible as possible externally, so I can support you everywhere. That is why I began in Zugdidi. But I also began touring the regions so that no one thinks that protests in any part of Georgia are less important than those in Tbilisi. This is the protest of all of Georgia, which will lead us to the final result. That final result is to live in a peaceful, democratic country. Where we are now, the regime is no longer democratic, but society has never been as democratic, as conscious, as responsible, and as peaceful as it is today in Georgia. This society has developed, and it seeks a peaceful resolution to this major crisis. That resolution is free elections," said Salome Zurabishvili.