Former Soviet foreign minister warns against new Cold War

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2007

FRANKFURT (AFP) — Soviet era foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze on Wednesday warned world leaders not to let the row over US plans to place a missile shield in Europe escalate into another Cold War.

"We must not repeat the mistakes of the past, we must not allow another Cold War to happen," Shevardnadze said as he presented the German version of his political memoirs, "Thoughts on the Past and the Future", at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

"It is my moral duty to make this warning. We must not allow the upset about missiles and anti-missile systems to escalate.

"I hope that what we heard are just angry words and not a real call to arms. If not, we will see another war with tragic consequences," he added in a veiled reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin's...