Georgia slams Russian troop move ahead of NATO Russia talks
AFP, April, 2008
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BRUSSELS (AFP) — Georgia accused Russia of military aggression Wednesday over its plans to send more peacekeepers to two Georgian rebel regions, as the tensions were set to top the agenda of NATO Russia talks.
"It's hard to believe that this is being done for the purposes of peacekeeping, it's rather the beginning of full scale military aggression," Georgia's top diplomat, David Bakradze, told AFP.
His remarks came after Russia's defence ministry announced Tuesday an increase in peacekeeping forces to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in response to what it called aggressive moves by pro-Western Georgia.
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Bakradze accused Russia of strengthening "de facto control on the ground" in Abkhazia in the last three months and establishing direct ties with the local authorities, which "questions Georgia's jurisdiction".
The Russian peacekeeping announcement only fuelled problems, said President Mikheil Saakashvili's new "special representative", who resigned as foreign minister ...
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