Statements
New York Times: Europe Wonders if It Can Square Its Need for Russia With a Distaste for Putin
PARIS — As NATO foreign ministers gather Tuesday for an emergency meeting on the Georgian crisis, Europe is divided over how to balance its ties to Russia with concerns over the country’s new aggressiveness. →
Statement: Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly - Georgian National Committee Appeal
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Digest: Moscow can’t be trusted
Article Moscow can’t be trusted.To stop Russia, the west must honour the words of freedom on which I have staked Georgia’s fate by Mikheil Saakashvili was published August 15 2008 in guardian.co.uk →
Заява: Коментар Прес-служби МЗС України про події в Грузії
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Public Initiative: Appeal of the Georgian Community in the UK
Dear Friends,
Over the past days, the international community has been witness to Russia’s uncovered aggression towards its neighboring country, Georgia. Under the cover of peace enforcement operations, Russia has been leading military attacks against Georgia by bombing the country’s critical infrastructures such as pipelines, ports, bridges, factories, and education centres, by looting and terrifying civilians on recently invaded Georgian territories and causing numerous casualties. →
Statement of the Georgian Ministry of Foreing Affairs
Friday, August 15, 2008
The authorities of Georgia possess comprehensive evidence, proving that different types of heavy conventional weapons, including cluster munitions, Rocket Complex 9M72 Iskander (SS-26 Stone) etc., have been indiscriminately used against civilian population and infrastructure of Georgia. The utilization of such weapons against peaceful population and civilian objects vividly reveals the inhuman brutality of Russian troops acting on the territory of Georgia. →
Statement: Georgian Parliament Appeals To International Community
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Statement of the Georgian National Committee of the Helsinki Civil Assembly
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Statement: Medvedev: Moscow guarantees the status of Southern Ossetia
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Time Magazine: Staring Down the Russians
The end of the Cold War was supposed to usher in a new age in which the major powers would no longer dictate to their neighbors how to run their affairs. That is why Russia’s invasion of Georgia is so tragic and so potentially ominous. Russia is now on watch: Will it continue to rely on coercion to achieve its imperial aims or is it willing to work within the emerging international system that values cooperation and consensus? →