Russia Calls For An Arms Embargo On Georgia

Russia Suspects U.S. Included Arms With
Georgian Aid -- Houston Chronicle

MOSCOW — Russia warned the West today against supporting Georgia's leadership and called for an arms embargo against the ex-Soviet republic nation until a different government is in place.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's remarks are likely to anger the United States and Europe and enrage Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. He made it clear Moscow wants Saakashvili out of power in Georgia.

"If instead of choosing their national interests and the interests of the Georgian people, the United States and its allies choose the Saakashvili regime, this will be a mistake of truly historic proportions," he said.

"For a start it would be right to impose an embargo on weapons to this regime, until different authorities turn Georgia a normal state," he said in an address at Russia's top foreign policy graduate school.

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My Comment: On the eve of a European meeting on the Russian invasion of Georgia, this is not the thing to say to the West. Russia has no interest in a political reconciliation, and are in fact now looking for a regime change in Georgia.