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Rice: Russia to Back Off Intimidation
Russia should back off intimidation of the states that had been the Soviet Union republics, the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced when visiting Georgia’s capital Tbilisi.
“I’m going to visit a friend,” The Associated Press quoted Rice as saying. The U.S. secretary of state made the respective statement before the private meeting with Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili.
The actions of Tbilisi pose a real threat to security in the South Caucasus and may lead the region to the verge of another armed conflict, Russia declared earlier. The RF Foreign Ministry announced that Moscow has submitted to the Security Council a draft resolution on Georgia made out in the wake of another escalation of its conflicts with Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Rice visited the Czech Republic before going to Georgia. There, she inked an intergovernmental agreement on stationing components of the U.S. missile defense shield. Moscow rebuffed by threatening to apply combat and technical methods should they begin to deploy missile-defense facilities close to Russia’s borders.
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