Monday, September 04, 2006

SENATOR LUGAR WENT TO GEORGIA AND ADVISED RUSSIA THAT THEIR SECURITY SERVICES ARE NOT NEEDED

August 22-24,

U.S. Senate Committee on International Affairs Richard Lugar

US vs. Russian Peacekeepers Infuriates Abkhaz Leadership

While Tbilisi commends the visiting US Senator’s statements against Russian peacekeepers in Georgia’s breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Sukhumi describes them as ‘populist’.

During his official visit to Georgia, US Senator Richard Lugar stated: ‘I think the peacekeeping situation is one that really has to be assumed by the people of Georgia; we’ll not be in favour of having Russians there… The diplomacy may lead to other more neutral and friendly parties providing peacekeeping in that situation.’

The Republican Senator, who chairs the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, visited Georgia on August 22-24 as part of his trip along the Central Asian oil route through Kazakhstan (?), Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey.

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