The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
BRUSSELS -- With the Bush administration's influence rapidly waning, the United States agreed on Tuesday to support a modest reopening of NATO's dialogue with Russia, despite Moscow's continuing occupation of the separatist Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, taken during fighting in August. It was a concession by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at her final NATO meeting....
New York Times (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
The U.S. agreed to support a modest reopening of NATO’s dialogue with Russia, despite Moscow’s continuing occupation of Georgia’s South Ossetia and Abkhazia territories.
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... a rapid reopening of dialogue with Russia despite Moscow's continuing occupation of the sovereign Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, taken in fighting last August.While the NATO ministers debated Tuesday, elsewhere in Brussels the European Union resumed its own talks with Moscow on a strategic partnership. Those talks were frozen for nearly three months to protest...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... a rapid reopening of dialogue with Russia despite Moscow's continuing occupation of the sovereign Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, taken in fighting last August.While the NATO ministers debated Tuesday, elsewhere in Brussels the European Union resumed its own talks with Moscow on a strategic partnership. Those talks were frozen for nearly three months to protest...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
With the Bush administration’s influence rapidly waning, the United States agreed Tuesday to support a modest reopening of NATO’s dialogue with Russia, despite Moscow’s continuing occupation of the separatist Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, taken during fighting in August. It was a concession by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at her final NATO meeting. In...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
"There are certain sorts of activities like military-to-military contacts that seem to me to be problematic when the Russian military is sitting in Georgian territory or the separatist states," she told reporters after meeting British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
With even the United States poised to drop its call for Georgia to be given a Nato Membership Action Plan (MAP), the Kremlin is likely to view the two-day summit beginning on Tuesday in Brussels as vindication of its military action in the Caucasus and occupation of Georgian territory last August.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
... contacts that seem to me to be problematic when the Russian military is sitting in Georgian territory or the separatist states," she told reporters after meeting British Foreign Secretary David Miliband.At the Brussels talks, foreign ministers will also review a decision to suspend high-level meetings on the main NATO-Russia dialogue forum, the NATO-Russia Council, following the conflict...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
... commission investigating the causes and conduct of the August war in which Russia routed the Georgian military and drove deep into Georgian territory. The war caused severe damage to Georgia's economy and aggravated already troubled relations between Moscow and Washington - a staunch backer of Saakashvili.Georgia's former ambassador to Russia said this week that Georgian...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
TBILISI, Georgia Claims that the United States gave Georgia the green light to forcibly retake separatist South Ossetia, sparking a five-day war with Russia, are "utter nonsense," President Mikhail Saakashvili said on Friday.
Saakashvili spoke before testifying to a parliamentary commission investigating the causes and conduct of the August war in which Russia routed the Georgian military...
