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After the world-famous chewing his tie on camera Mikheil Saakashvili left Georgia, this Caucasian country left in the shadow of global geopolitics. However, NATO is clearly not going to give more Georgians-time “for a break”.
The Russian foreign Ministry on Tuesday stressed that the intensification of NATO in the Caucasus is a direct threat to Russia and Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In a message posted on the website of the Russian diplomatic Agency said that state Secretary — Deputy Minister of foreign Affairs of Russia Grigory Karasin held talks with the co-chairs of the Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia. The meeting was attended by the UN special representative Antti Turunen and special representative of OSCE Chairman günter Behler.
The Russian diplomat did not hide the fact: Moscow is concerned that “in Georgia unfolding military infrastructure, regularly held military exercises, the scale of which increases every year, introducing NATO standards armed forces and control them.”
All this, said Karasin, no doubt threatens a serious destabilization of the situation in the Caucasus and threatens the security of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Abkhazia and Republic of South Ossetia. “In this context increases the importance of concluding legally binding agreements on the nonuse of force between Sukhumi and Tskhinval, on the one hand, and Tbilisi, on the other”, — stated in the message of the foreign Ministry.
By the way
As reported in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, a new round of the Geneva discussions on security and stability in Transcaucasia will take place on 10-11 October this year.