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US concedes Kremlin’s first military response in Georgia was “legitimate”
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by SOLARLIFE | August 24, 2008 at 02:45 pm
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The US Ambassador to Moscow John Beyrle bridging worlds for peace mission
US concedes Kremlin’s first military response in Georgia was “legitimate” DEBKAfile Special Report August 22, 2008, 7:16 PM (GMT+02:00) US Ambassador John Beyrle in Moscow The US ambassador to Moscow, endorsing Russia's initial moves in Georgia, described the Kremlin's first military response as legitimate after Russian troops came under attack. This was the first positive statement by an American official about Moscow’s first response to the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia, after a string of condemnations from the heads of the Bush administration. It came from US ambassador John Beyrle, who arrived in Moscow last month, in an interview published by the Russian daily Kommersant Friday, Aug. 22. DEBKA-Net-Weekly disclosed Friday in its lead article that Washington and Moscow are working quietly and intensively to set up a summit between President George W. Bush and Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin to bring crisis-ridden US-Russian relations back on an even keel. (Both Powers Push for a Bush-Putin Summit.) Ambassador Beyrle’s words were the first public departure by a US official from the critical remarks of Moscow’s conduct heard uniformly from Bush, Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates. The ambassador said Washington had not sanctioned Georgia’s initial actions when on Aug. 8, after a succession of tense skirmishes, Georgian forces attacked South Ossetia, triggering a massive Russian reaction when its peacekeepers came under fire. “We did not want to see a recourse to violence and force and we made that very, very clear,” said Beyrle. “The fact that we were trying to convince the Georgian side not to take this step is clear evidence that we did not want all this to happen,” he said.
Ambassador Beylre: US warned Georgia about invasion
The U.S. ambassador to Russia has told a Russian daily that Washington strongly urged Georgia not to invade its breakaway province of South Ossetia.
source: Harald Tribune Europe
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at 16:45 on August 24th, 2008
Diplomats are always looking for ways to cool things off and get negotiations started. Perhaps that is the objective. What Russia did in the first few hours is not the problem. Spending weeks or months moving huge numbers of troops and logistics into position in anticipation of an (possibly contrived) incident and then systematically raping an independent country - now that is the problem.
at 23:01 on August 24th, 2008
Joellrose, "US Ambassador John Beyrle in Moscow admits Russia reponse legitimate" source: Debka, your comment " Diplomats are always looking for ways to cool things ...." is nonsense. The Ambassador acts on behalf of the US, his Peacetalk is 100% backed up by the US president. If any statement would be wrong, he would get fired, no doubt. It gets time that you get out of you war bunker into moneytalk, you are late in take off for reality, nobody wants, needs or will tolerate "war retriggering". As I repeat, if you need war, make it like in middle age on your home territiory, invite the leaders you want to fight with and let the leaders fight in front ( not in the office). ...... the closing words of the US Ambassador "if Moscow continues to pull troops out of Georgia and does not threaten the country’s integrity and regime, Russian and US leaders can do business". is the way.
at 05:33 on August 25th, 2008
"US ready to put Russia nuclear deal on ice
By Daniel Dombey in Washington
Published: August 24 2008 23:44 | Last updated: August 24 2008 23:44
The Bush administration is set to put a high-profile nuclear deal with Russia on hold, according to US diplomats.
Officials expect Condoleezza Rice, US secretary of state, to recommend that George W. Bush, president, recall the civil nuclear co-operation agreement from Congress in the wake of Russia’s conflict with Georgia.
“At this point, it’s dead,” a congressional staffer said.
The deal would be one of the most visible victims so far of tensions between Washington and Moscow, which have risen to levels rarely seen since the end of the cold war. US officials have warned Russia it faces “consequences” for its conduct in Georgia and they increasingly write off Russia’s hopes of joining the World Trade Organisation." Financial Times
at 05:48 on August 25th, 2008
I am sorry but that deal was to be put on Ice long before the Georgia matter. It was supposed-to be put on Ice already after the failed talks on Bush his visit to Russia a couple of month ago, where Russia warned the US that any US missile in Poland, Ukraine or Georgia and Russia would put back up its Nukes towards the US and bomb Poland...
This is all about Missiles and we are in a similar crisis then the Cuba Missile crisis of 1963.
at 00:16 on August 25th, 2008
SOLARLIFE, I like this story. It's good stuff.
Interesting that the US now admits that the initial Russian response to Georgia's attack was legitimate. It did take them a long time to admit that.
at 00:29 on August 25th, 2008
Thanks for Flag "military response in Georgia was legitimate”, your comment"It did take them a long time to admit that." The information was not immediate printed you are right.
at 12:07 on August 25th, 2008
Thanks Paschen for answering comment "Old deal on ice". The potential problem of escalation nobody wants to discuss; I agree a Cuba / Venezuala problem for US on the horizon, if peace mission no success.