Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili speaks during a joint news briefing with five European foreign ministers at his office in Tbilisi May 12, 2008.
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Saakashvili Lashed at Russia for World Order Revision
Russia’s actions in the conflict regions of Georgia are the aggressive attempt to revise Europe’s and world order, said Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili. It is the most aggressive attempt to do it after the end of the cold war, Saakashvili specified.
The world community won’t swallow deployment of illegal foreign contingent, the shift of weapons there, the attempts to explode the situation, Saakashvili threatened, pledging that Georgia will take definite legal and political steps, coordinating them with its friends and ensuring strong support and response.
When speaking of global support, Saakashvili evidently meant Washington. U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Matthew Bryza, for instance, doubted the need of stationing such sophisticated military hardware to ensure peace in the region and urged Russia to withdraw additional military forces from Abkhazia.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry rebuffed by calling Bryza’s statement at least ill-defined. “It should be stated that M. Bryza shows the lack of knowledge of the real situation and events in the conflict area, and choosing my words carefully, his judgment as a result has little in common with reality,” said the ministry’s spokesman Boris Malakhov.
In the RF Foreign Ministry, they emphasized the absence of any military component in the actions of Russia, saying that the matter at stake is exclusively the protection of social and economic and humanitarian interests of Abkhazia’s residents, which the government of Georgia has failed to ensure for over 15 years.
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