BUCHAREST, March 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine have no intention of setting up an anti-Russian alliance, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said on Wednesday in Moldovan capital Chisinau.

    Saakashvili, who arrived in Chisinau on Wednesday for a two-day visit just before the country's March 6 elections, said that Georgia and Moldova demand all Russian troops withdraw from their territories, but don't want to sabotage the relations with Russia.

    At a news conference after meeting with Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin, Saakashivili said he came to Moldova to support democracy, expressing his displeasure with reports that he was getting himself involved in Moldova's elections.

    He pointed out that some external forces are still unwilling tostop their interference in other countries' affairs after having failed in Georgia and Ukraine.

    "I have not come to support any of the candidates. It is important for us for these elections to be free and democratic, without pressure or blackmail," the pro-western leader said.

    Voronin told the news conference that leaders of Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine all agreed that the importance of relations with Russia should not be undervalued, but Russia should abandon its imperial ambition.

    Voroin met with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko during a brief visit to Kiev on Tuesday.

    Saakashivili and Voronin also signed a joint declaration, in which both leaders criticized separatist movements in Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniestr and in Georgia's regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

    "Separatist leaders have created an international criminal alliance," Vorinin said, describing separatism as a source of crime, smuggling and general lawlessness.

    "We concluded that separatist republics are 'a black hole' where chaos rules. And we stated our determination to join forces to resolve these problems," he added. Enditem