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Russia humiliating EU over Georgia: Lithuanian president
AFP - Saturday, November 1
VILNIUS (AFP) - - Russia's failure to fully respect an EU-brokered ceasefire in its war with Georgia is a humiliation for the European Union, Lithuania's President Valdas Adamkus said Friday.
"Not all the efforts of President Sarkozy to guarantee Georgia's territorial integrity have been implemented," Adamkus told reporters during a visit by his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili.
"This is a humiliation for the entire European Union," he added.
In August French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who holds the rotating presidency of the 27-nation EU, brokered a ceasefire with his Russian opposite number Dmitry Medvedev to end Moscow's brief war with its neighbour Georgia.
Lithuania, like Georgia, was part of the Soviet Union until the communist bloc collapsed in 1991.
The Baltic state is now firmly anchored in the west, having joined the EU and NATO in 2004, and is a vocal supporter of Georgia's drive to become part of the club.
The issue of Georgia is due to be discussed at a summit next month between the leaders of the EU and Russia.
There, Adamkus said, Lithuania would "ask a question of principle: are there values for which European Union's members stand united, and which must be respected?"
Adamkus pledged to "draw the attention of the heads of state to the current situation and spotlight the dangers threatening Europe."
The Georgia conflict left the EU deeply split, with some western member states anxious not to anger Russia with a tough stance, and others, notably ex-Soviet republics such as Lithuania, seeking a hard line.
EU members eventually agreed to suspend talks launched in July with Russia on a new pact to reinforce ties between the bloc and the resurgent energy giant.
Lithuania earlier this week sharply criticised a proposal by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to unfreeze these negotiations at next month's EU-Russia summit.
Russia moved into Georgia on August 8 to repel a Georgian military attempt to retake South Ossetia.
The breakaway region's administration had long enjoyed extensive support from Moscow and its troops, stationed there as peacekeepers since the Soviet Union fell apart.
Russian forces have left the buffer zones they seized in Georgia and pulled back into South Ossetia and fellow-separatist Abkhazia, under the terms of the ceasefire agreement.
But Lithuania argues that Moscow was also meant to reduce troop numbers within both regions, which Moscow has recognised as independent states, and to give free international observers unfettered access.
On Tuesday, a Lithuania official said Russian troop numbers had risen and pointed out that observers had not been allowed into the separatist regions.
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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili (L) walks with his Lithuanian counterpart Valdas Adamkus (C) as an unidentified bodyguard (R) follows them in Vilnius. Russia's failure to fully respect an EU-brokered ceasefire in its war with Georgia is a humiliation for the European Union, Adamkus said Friday.
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