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Published Date: 03 December 2008
NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels yesterday agreed to resume talks with Russia, after Moscow was frozen out following the invasion of Georgia in August.
The talks will resume at a low level to begin with, ministers said, in a sign of continued division with Russia over Georgia, missile defence in Europe and Nato's plans to expand into the former Soviet Union.

"This is not business as usual," said the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice.

Ministers restated a decision taken in April that Georgia and Ukraine could join Nato eventually despite Russia's opposition.

They agreed to increase military and political assistance to help the two countries prepare, but refrained granting them a "membership action plan".

The European Union yesterday also launched an investigation into the causes of the Russia-Georgia conflict.





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  • Last Updated: 02 December 2008 11:02 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Rob Bennett,

Point Piper Australia 03/12/2008 01:37:24
Erosi Kitsmarishvili: “Saakashvili wanted the war and he strove for this for four years”
Erosi Kitsmarishvili, Georgia’s ex-Ambassador to Russia who held this position for just two months, has continued making the allegations he voiced on 25 November at the sitting of the Temporary Parliamentary Commission on the Study of August Events. At the office of international news agency Ria-Novosti’s Tbilisi office on 26 November the ex-Ambassador explained his decision to continue commenting: “The Commission did not allow me to say what I wanted to say, they did not let me finish my sentences. Be it on their consciences.”
he ex-Ambassador repeated several times that Georgia as well as Russia was preparing for war. “Georgia actually started the war and Russia responded,” he alleged, continuing, “Saakashvili wanted the war and he strove for this for four years.”
http://www.geotimes.ge/index.php?m=home&newsid=13913
2

Rob Bennett,

Point Piper Australia 03/12/2008 01:38:00
"This is not business as usual," said the US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice.
It looks like this piece of lying garbage will be relegated to the scrapheap where she belongs.
3

Mashimaro,

China 03/12/2008 05:11:08
#2 And that can't happen soon enough.
4

gus1940,

Edinburgh 03/12/2008 09:13:04
If Nato is truly an alliance of equals why is the commander always an American?

It always has been simply a tool of US Imperialist Foreign Policy.
5

POSTMARK,-55,

China, 03/12/2008 09:15:35
#4 gus1940,
Yes indeed Gus and so is the WTO, the UN, the IMF and the list is endless.
6

Leftie,

UK 03/12/2008 11:42:04
Nato should start the talks be expelling Poland and Czechoslovakia for creating the mess in the first place.
7

Let's have the truth,

Queensland 03/12/2008 12:32:06
If anyone can think of anything at all that Condoleeza Ricxe has achieved during her stint as "Secretary of State", other than her contribution to global warming, please let me know.
8

Dave Crass,

03/12/2008 14:03:13
#7 LHTT
Condaleeza Rice has um, done ahh
Sorry I'll get back to you on that one
9

Yane,

03/12/2008 20:40:31
#7 She played music with Yo Yo Ma.

 

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