One can hardly imagine any Georgian, really endowed with a natural talent of a statesman or a public figure and possessed with the ability of political thinking, who does not appreciate the fact that Georgia is an organic and overwhelmingly important part of the Caucasus, and this part should without fail have worked out its conception of regional development, i.e. the Caucasian policy, if not for other reason, at least for safety of the country. In view of this fact the concept of steady development necessarily implies regional development, i.e. constructive relations with the neighbor countries at all levels and showing concern for the development of kindred nations, especially as the matter concerns those not great and weak countries, which constitute the present-day Caucasus, and cannot exist separately, under hostile and unfriendly conditions. It is obvious to any sober-minded and far-seeing person, no matter what is he or she, a politician or a housewife, that one can have no peace with a poverty-stricken and troubled neighbor, notwithstanding the fact that you are not the reason of his misfortune at all.

A neighbor, be it a family, people or a country, is a destiny. A neighbor bears more influence over one's everyday life than any relative does, and one needs to rely on diplomacy and good will in order to maintain friendly relations with the neighbors.

As to Georgia's function with respect to the rest of the Caucasus, it is known that the Georgian intellectual elite always comprehended the vital importance of Caucasian unity: it was obvious that a small country, which was of interest of great foreign forces, would not have been able to exist surrounded with the hostile neighboring countries. It was also obvious that a multiethnic and multireligious country with different ethnos and true and not feigned religious tolerance would not have been able to survive without keeping up a friendship with them. That's why the mentioned political thinking was ranked as a state ideology. Suffice is to mention an exceptionally eloquent passage from the work of a Georgian historian Leonti Mroveli, where all the Caucasian peoples are referred to as the sons of one father, Targamos. There also is a wonderful legend about Eloise and Sedona, the Jew sister and brother from Mtskheta. The legend deals with the first appearance of Christianity in Georgia and was aimed at non-admission of confrontation between the Christians and the Persians. At this point, noteworthy are Ilya Chavchavadze's words: "People have risen in rebellion; people are in a rage; people from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea are possessed with the thought of freedom of the Caucasus".

The facts that took place in Georgia from 1989 with respect to the ethnic minorities - and the Caucasian peoples - was an utter destruction: criminal irresponsibility and total ignorance of the Caucasian peoples' mentality and inner world.

And finally, the chief thing: the policy based on violence, treachery and immorality can have a destructive effect on the whole mankind, and first of all, it will raze to the ground the infantile, chaotic and instable nations like us.

Our Caucasian policy, like any other one, should be in truth unprejudiced and judicious, similar to the country's and people's mode of life on the whole.

We should not deceive ourselves with demagogy of the mighty of this world trying to convince us of the idea that physical force and crafty designs ostensibly can bring salvation, that politics, as masterful immorality supposedly will remain a wicked technology of deceiving and devouring the others.

We, as well as other punished, disintegrated and depressed nations should remember and be fully confident that morality - honest life, fair and well-wishing relations with other nations - is the most pragmatic and secure thing. Consequently, immorality can be the pledge of passing successes and insubstantial, imaginary progress only.

2. Establishment of the "European-Caucasian" institute, or a kind of the institute of Caucasiology - an academy with a complete staff of highly qualified key personnel to graduate real experts of the Caucasus. (Neither in Georgia nor beyond its limits can be found such experts of the Caucasus, who have sound knowledge of cultural history, geography, economics, culture, ethno-psychology, languages, etc. of the Caucasus and, at the same time, are well-informed about the West and Russia).

3. Putting an end to the policy of threatening carried out towards the Abkhaz and the Ossetes. This inspires terror in the population, with that the belief is growing that Georgians dream of revenge and Russia is the only way of salvation.

4. Restoration of the official state tradition practiced even in the Soviet period, which implied an open admission of the Caucasian students and post-graduate students to the universities and institutes of Georgia; the encouragement of the North Caucasian scientists to defend theses in Tbilisi.

5. Contribution to the development of Caucasiology as a science; edition of such books as: "The Red Book of the Caucasus", "The Nature of the Caucasus", "The Caucasian Mythology", "The Caucasian Folklore", "The Ethnography of the Caucasian Peoples", etc.

6. Contribution to the spread of the Russian-language newspaper "Kavkazsky Akcent" throughout the Caucasus, which is the only periodical that provides the Russian-speaking population of the region with the information on social and political state of the entire Caucasus and demonstrates the potential of becoming the tribune of the Caucasian peoples.

7. Furthering the edition and distribution of the reference books about the peoples of the Caucasus that is implemented by the "Caucasian House".

8. Contribution to all-Caucasian conferences, seminars, congresses; establishment of all-Caucasian organizations (e.g. the associations or clubs of the Caucasian doctors, lawyers, etc.); arrangement of all-Caucasian cultural actions (e.g. Caucasian festivals) in Georgia.

9. Foundation of the All-Caucasian organisation (similar to UNO) on the basis of the "Caucasian House".