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Saakashvili says Russia a
threat to ex-Soviet states: report
AFP
Friday, June 27, 2008
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Russian intervention
in Abkhazia must be stopped or the sovereignty of other former
Soviet states will be at risk, in an interview published here
Thursday.
"Georgia is only the start. Tomorrow it will be Ukraine,
the Baltic states and Poland. What is at stake here is the whole
post-Cold War security order in Europe," he told the German
daily Die Welt.
"Georgia has become a litmus test. Europe must show that
it stands by its values. If it does not do this, we will see the
start of an endless new string of conflicts," he warned.
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He said Russia is playing "a kind of politics of redistribution
that comes straight from the 19th century" and fails to respect
national borders.
Saakashvili accuses Moscow of seeking to annex the breakaway
region of Abkhazia, where Russia has deployed extra troops since
announcing in April that it would establish formal ties with the
separatist government.
He told Die Welt he believed this was decided by former Russian
president Vladimir Putin and said Georgia was not sure yet where
it stood with his successor Dmitry Medvedev.
"I am not sure whether this is Medvedev's policy or rather
something he has inherited from his predecessor," he said.
"I take Medvedev to be a thoughtful politician. But the
blueprint for the way Moscow is treating Georgia was written long
before the handover of power.
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