Monday, September 08, 2008

Russia Says to Send Nuclear Warship to Caribbean
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2 comments:

Jukkis N said...

Thanks for a great blog! The situation with Russia / Georgia is semi-worrying..

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2:50 AM
cornsilk said...

You have to like Sergei Lavrov...

While Dick Cheney was embarrassing us in the Caucasus, Sergie Lavros was cleverly in Istanbul talking to the Turks.

Turkey wants '"the option of remaining relatively neutral in this [Georgian} dispute, even if this was not to everyone's satisfaction in Washington." ..."The Kremlin promptly welcomed the Turkish proposal and agreed to have consultations on building up bilateral and multilateral dialogue on all aspects of the Caucasus problem."'

Lavrov said,'"We see the chief value in the Turkish initiative in that it rests on common sense and assumes that countries of any region and, first of all, countries belonging to this region should themselves decide how to conduct affairs there. And others should help, but not dictate their recipes."'

...'The Russian approach is to welcome an "entente cordiale" with Turkey in the Black Sea region, which frustrate US attempts to isolate Russia in its traditional backyard.'

...'The full import of Lavrov's statement needs careful analysis. Its ramifications are profound. It can be understood against the backdrop of the US's ideas in the past to use the eastern Black Sea coast as a staging post for its military operations in Iraq and a potential strike against Iran - which Ankara firmly rejected, to the great relief of Moscow. Suffice to say, Lavrov has done brilliantly by floating an idea to link Iraq and Iran with a Russo-Turkish regional framework on security and cooperation. '

For more, the link is: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/JI12Ag01.html

Great!

6:54 AM

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