U.S. President George W. Bush will ask his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili to brief him on ongoing processes in Georgia when they meet in Washington on July 5, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew J. Bryza told journalists in Tbilisi on Tuesday. Bush and Saakashvili are friends, and this visit, which is being organized by the U.S. administration, will be friendly, he said. The search for a peaceful solution to the conflicts in Georgia will be high on the agenda of the two presidents\' talks, he added. \"The U.S. very much wants to see Georgia a prospering country,\" Georgian political scientist Gubaz Sanikidze told journalists. \"After the unsuccessful campaign in Iraq, the U.S. is doing its best to maintain the image of a power capable of promoting the advent of democratic regimes in various countries,\" he said. \"The U.S., a country that effectively organized the \'Rose Revolution\' in Georgia, is trying to prove that this small country [Georgia] acts as a beacon of democracy and freedom for developing states,\" Sanikidze said. (Interfax)