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Russia calls for arms embargo on Georgia until Saakashvili ousted
Sep 1, 2008, 8:56 GMT
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivers a speech on the conflict between Russia and Georgia over Georgia\'s breakaway province South Ossetia at the Moscow State International Relations Institute, MGIMO in Moscow, Russia, 01 September 2008. Lavrov spoke as the European Union (EU) prepared for a special summit to discuss the Georgia situation later in the day. EPA/SERGEI ILNITSKY
Moscow - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday called for an international weapons embargo on Georgia until President Mikheil Saakashvili is ousted from office, the Interfax news agency reported.
'If the US and its allies have failed to learn lessons and were to give further (military) support to Saakashvili's regime, that would be a mistake of historic proportions,' Lavrov said.
Lavrov said the international community should halt all arms shipments to Georgia until 'the country is under a normal government.'
US officials last week said Washington would move to give Georgia new military assistance in the wake of Tbilisi's defeat in last month's war with Russia over the Georgian separatist province Ossetia.
Russia will remain in the region until persons responsible for starting the war 'are unable to do more mischief,' Lavrov said.
Moscow was not looking to intensify conflict with the US and the European Union nations, and the Kremlin looks positively on the placement of international peacekeepers in the region, he said.
'We are interested in close cooperation with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and with the United Nations, so that security in South Ossetia and Abkhazia is maintained,' Lavrov said.
Western nations have criticized Russia for its continued military occupation of Georgian territory outside the two enclaves. A mid-August agreement brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and signed by his Russian counterpart Dmitriy Medvedev committed Russia to pulling its troops back to pre-war positions.
Lavrov said the Russian army and navy positions within Georgia were 'fully grounded in international law,' and claimed Russia was not seeking conflict with any nation. Moscow's continued stationing of combat units within Georgia was necessary to provide security and stability in the region, he argued.
Russia has long maintained Abkhazia and South Ossetia should not be part of Georgia and are not part of Georgian territory.
Georgia's position is that when the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, Russian leaders signed treaties establishing the border between Georgia and Russia, and confirming Abkhazia and South Ossetia came under Georgian control.
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russia is wrong on few fronts. first they had a right to go in to defend it's citizens but they didn't have a right to destroy georgia's infastructure, the destruction there is devistating. that's not truely protecting or being a policing force. that's having hostile intent. the usa for which putin is excessively and dangously jeolousy, which could ruin his country not from usa but the rest of the civilized world, would never have destoyed iraq's infrastructure intentionally, for which it's paying to rebuild the accidents of conflict.russia doesn,t have the ball to even save face. russia use the us as an escape goat for their own insecurities. it's easy to blame the us but the people you really affect and the ones that will affect russia are your neighbor. and you've failed to have a truely open & building relationship with these countries. and these countries will be the ones that make or break russia's stance with the world. it's easy to blame usa. and for this missile defense shield, if russia wouldn't have given iran nuclear technologies then us wouldn't be anywhere near russia now. so russia should really think of the consequences for it's action because their (putins) action are only hurting them globally
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WhateverSep 1st, 2008 - 14:31:45
Sergei Lavrov you are funny guy. I hope the US & EU build up Georgia so they can kick you Russias out of their country.
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