lorad474@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> For educational purposes:
>
> "MOSCOW, April 28 (RIA Novosti) - The Georgian breakaway republic of
> Abkhazia is prepared to sign a military agreement with Russia, the
> Abkhaz foreign minister said Monday.
>
> "We are ready to sign a military agreement with Russia. We are ready
> to observe all Russian interests in the region in exchange for
> military protection by Russia and open economic cooperation," Sergei
> Shamba said, speaking on the phone to a RIA Novosti correspondent.
>
> Shamba also said if Russia had an interest in a military presence in
> Abkhazia, then the republic was ready to oblige. "We realize that
> Russia has military interests in Abkhazia, because it's a
> strategically im****tant region," he said.
>
> The head of the Russian lower house's committee on CIS affairs, Alexei
> Ostrovsky, suggested on Monday waiting until Abkhazia's status has
> been better defined before talking about a possible Russian military
> presence in the republic.
>
> Abkhazia and South Ossetia broke away from Georgia in 1991 following
> the collapse of the Soviet Union. Georgia is looking to regain control
> over the two republics.
>
> Russian President Vladimir Putin called earlier this month for closer
> ties with the breakaway republics. Putin's statement provoked an angry
> response from Tbilisi, with Georgia's foreign minister accusing Russia
> of attempting "to annex" the two republics.
>
> Georgia also claims that on April 20 a Russian MiG-29 Fulcrum fighter
> from the Gudauta military base in Abkhazia, where Russian peacekeepers
> have been stationed since the end of a bloody conflict in the early
> 1990s, shot down a Georgian drone, a claim Russia has denied.
>
> The incidents have seen relations between Moscow and Tbilisi plunge to
> a new low.
>
> Ex-Soviet breakaway regions have stepped up their drive for self-rule
> since Kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia on
> February 17. Abkhazia and South Ossetia, along with Moldova's
> Transdnestr, have all asked Russia's parliament, the UN, and other
> organizations to recognize their independence.
>
> The State Duma, Russia's lower house of parliament, proposed in March
> that the president and the government consider the issue of whether to
> recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
>
> Valery Kenyaikin, the Russian Foreign Ministry's ambassador at large,
> said on April 25 that Russia would do everything possible to protect
> the interests of Russian citizens living in Georgia's breakaway
> republics.
>
> "We will not leave our citizens in Abkhazia and South Ossetia in
> difficulty and this should be clearly understood... We will do
> everything possible to avert a military conflict." He also added
> however that Russia would "have to use military force," if the need
> arose.
>
> Sergei Mironov, speaker of the Federation Council, Russia's upper
> house of parliament, said on Monday, commenting on Kenyaikin's
> statement that: "Russia proceeds from the fact that a great number of
> Russians live in Abkhazia. It is evident that if there is a threat to
> the lives of Russian nationals - or any other threat - Russia will not
> remain on the sidelines."
>
> Also on Monday, acting Georgian Foreign Minister David Bakradze called
> Mironov's statement an attempt by Moscow to switch to "a policy of
> military aggression."
>
> "This threatens switching from a policy of annexing our territories to
> a policy of direct military aggression," he told journalists in
> Brussels.
>
> Georgia's Rustavi-2 TV station also quoted Bakradze as saying that
> Georgia would attempt to get Russian peacekeeping forces stationed in
> Abkhazia replaced with NATO peacekeepers.
>
> NATO spokesman James Appathurai told Georgian TV re****ters in Brussels
> that all NATO members believe that the Russian peacekeeping contingent
> should leave the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict zone.
>
> Vakhtang Lezhava, a deputy Georgian economic development minister,
> told journalists on Monday that Georgia would link its consent to
> Russia's admission to the World Trade Organization to the Abkhazia and
> South Ossetia issue. He said in particular that Tbilisi was seeking a
> retraction of President Putin's statement on the strengthening of ties
> with the breakaway republics. "
>
> http://en.rian.ru/world/20080428/106117205.html
>
> Sounds just like Stalin's pioneer soviet puppets in all of the wwII
> russian occupied countries.
> The russkie foreign staff is very unoriginal.. probably because they
> are the same originals.
>
What's right for Kosovo should be right in other places too.
Or do you suggest different rights for different people?
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