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Forum Spin Doctor
USA Today
April 30, 2008
Pg. 5
Russia sent troops to Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region to counter what it said were Georgian plans for an attack, prompting the European Union to accuse it of stoking tensions.
Russia said the increase was within the limit of 3,000 troops set in a 1994 cease-fire agreement brokered by the United Nations to prevent civil war in Georgia. Still, the EU criticized the move.
"Even if the increase in peacekeepers is within limits — if we want to diminish the perception of tensions, I don't think it is a wise measure to increase now," EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said.
Georgia accused the Russian troops of siding with the separatists in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, whose leaders say they want either independence or absorption into Russia. Georgian Foreign Minister David Bakradze said Russia did not tell Georgia about the plan.
"That is a very, very dangerous decision," Bakradze told the Associated Press from Luxembourg.
April 30, 2008
Pg. 5
Russia sent troops to Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region to counter what it said were Georgian plans for an attack, prompting the European Union to accuse it of stoking tensions.
Russia said the increase was within the limit of 3,000 troops set in a 1994 cease-fire agreement brokered by the United Nations to prevent civil war in Georgia. Still, the EU criticized the move.
"Even if the increase in peacekeepers is within limits — if we want to diminish the perception of tensions, I don't think it is a wise measure to increase now," EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said.
Georgia accused the Russian troops of siding with the separatists in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, whose leaders say they want either independence or absorption into Russia. Georgian Foreign Minister David Bakradze said Russia did not tell Georgia about the plan.
"That is a very, very dangerous decision," Bakradze told the Associated Press from Luxembourg.