GEORGIA HIGH ON THE EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT AGENDA (June 27, 2008)

EURASIA DAILY MONITOR (Jamestown Foundation) ^ | June 27, 2008 | Vladimir Socor

[JerseyHighlander]

EURASIA DAILY MONITOR

Volume 5, Issue 123 (June 27, 2008)

 

GEORGIA HIGH ON THE EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT AGENDA

By Vladimir Socor

The European Union has decided to make an issue of Russia’s assault on Georgia at the EU-Russia summit in Khanty-Mansiisk on June 26 and 27. This decision, and the surge of attention to Georgia within the EU, are unprecedented and were almost forced on the EU by Moscow’s overt seizure Abkhazia in progress since April. Many West Europeans who previously looked away from the situation are now seriously talking about it, though not yet acting on it.

Russia’s entrenchment in Abkhazia and pressures to subdue Georgia are challenging the overall post-Soviet international order. This view, first advanced by new member countries in the EU, is gaining ground in the internal debates on EU policy. Nevertheless, EU institutions in Brussels have only responded with feebly worded declarations to Russia’s moves thus far.

For its part, Moscow has prepared the stage for a failure of EU policy on Georgia at the Khanty-Mansiisk summit. Russia has taken further steps against Georgia in the immediate run-up to the summit.

[JerseyHighlander]

This is an excerpt, please read the full article to get some background info on the current hot conflict in South Ossetia.  It's becoming obvious the US media doesn't have a solid grasp of the situation and is reporting on the hot conflict extremely poorly.

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