AFP
Friday, June 27, 2008
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Russian intervention in Abkhazia must be stopped or the sovereignty of other former Soviet states will be at risk, in an interview published here Thursday.
"Georgia is only the start. Tomorrow it will be Ukraine, the Baltic states and Poland. What is at stake here is the whole post-Cold War security order in Europe," he told the German daily Die Welt.
"Georgia has become a litmus test. Europe must show that it stands by its values. If it does not do this, we will see the start of an endless new string of conflicts," he warned.
He said Russia is playing "a kind of politics of redistribution that comes straight from the 19th century" and fails to respect national borders.
Saakashvili accuses Moscow of seeking to annex the breakaway region of Abkhazia, where Russia has deployed extra troops since announcing in April that it would establish formal ties with the separatist government.
He told Die Welt he believed this was decided by former Russian president Vladimir Putin and said Georgia was not sure yet where it stood with his successor Dmitry Medvedev.
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