Russia warns West to stop backing Georgia

Posted on 01. Sep, 2008 by John Fife in Top Stories

MOSCOW: Russia warned the West on Monday against supporting Georgia’s leadership, suggesting that the United States carried weapons as well as aid to the former Soviet republic and calling for an arms embargo until the Georgian government falls.

The remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his spokesman came as European Union leaders gathered in Brussels to review their relations with Russia, weighing how to punish Moscow for its invasion of Georgia without isolating the Continent’s major energy supplier.

The latest Russian rhetoric was likely to anger the United States and Europe and enrage President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia, who has said that Russia’s goal all along has been to remove him from power. Source>>>