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Russia's Medvedev warns NATO over Georgia war games
Fri Apr 17, 2009 10:26am EDT
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned NATO Friday that planned military exercises in Georgia were an attempt at muscle-flexing by the Western alliance that could hinder efforts to mend ties.
Russia fought a brief war with Georgia last year and is vexed by what it describes as NATO support for the ex-Soviet state, a crucial transit route for Caspian Sea oil and gas to Europe.
NATO says the exercises from May 6 to June 1 will involve 1,300 troops from 19 countries.
"This is the wrong decision, a dangerous decision," Medvedev told a news conference at his state residence outside Moscow.
"Decisions of this kind are aimed at muscle-flexing," he said. "Such decisions are disappointing and do not facilitate the resumption of full scale contacts between the Russian Federation and NATO."
Tensions over Georgia have been running high since Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's failed bid to retake the pro-Moscow breakaway region of South Ossetia in August.
Russia repelled the attack but provoked international condemnation for driving its troops further into Georgian territory and then recognizing South Ossetia and another rebel region, Abkhazia, as independent states.
NATO cut its formal ties with Russia as a result of Moscow's intervention in Georgia, but earlier this year they agreed to resume full-scale relations.
WAR GAMES
NATO says the exercises, to be held 20 km (12 miles) east of the capital Tbilisi, will be based on a fictitious U.N.-mandated, NATO-led crisis response operation and will not involve heavy weaponry.
"We will follow what happens there in the most thorough manner and make certain decisions if needs be, Medvedev told reporters.
But NATO officials and diplomats in Brussels expressed surprise at Moscow's sharp reaction to the exercises, which were planned last year. The Russians had also been fully informed.
As a NATO partner country, Russia had been free to participate, they said.
NATO officials said Russia had not raised the matter in a meeting which set the date for resuming the NATO-Russia Council, a forum for consultation, consensus-building, cooperation, joint decisions and joint action on security issues.
They said Medvedev's comments, following earlier Russian complaints this week, could be intended to deflect attention from much larger military maneuvers Russia has been conducting off the coast of Georgia. Continued...
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