Sept. 8: A Russian soldier talks to United Nations representatives at a Russian checkpoint at Karaleti,4 miles northwest of Gori, Georgia.
From FOX News:
KARALETI, Georgia — Russian soldiers prevented international aid convoys from visiting Georgian villages on Monday in a blunt demonstration of power in a tense zone around the breakaway province of South Ossetia.
The ambassadors of Sweden, Latvia and Estonia said they also had been barred from visiting villages beyond Russian checkpoints.
Monday's show of authority came as French President Nicolas Sarkozy tried in Moscow to persuade Russia to honor its pledge to pull its troops back to the positions they held before the fighting broke out Aug. 7.
A convoy of four vehicles from U.N. aid agencies waited for about an hour at the checkpoint in Karaleti, but was turned away after a brief discussion with a Russian general who arrived to negotiate. The three aid agency SUVs and a World Food Program truck loaded with wheat flour, pasta, sugar and other staples were headed to Georgian villages around South Ossetia.
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My Comment: From a PR point of view .... this is a disaster.
1 comment:
One truck of aid. Are you kidding me ? This is some kind of propaganda ploy by the UN lackeys over there.
Then the ambassadors of three of the countries that have been howling about how evil Russia is want to come in ?, I would have shot them on the spot for being spies.
And you fall for this crap ? Tell the UN to send some real aid and they can come in.
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