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NATO Working Peaceful Resolution in Georgian Conflict – Calls for Direct Talks

by John Little on 8/08/2008

NATO Deputy Spokesperson Carmen Romero comments on the frantic diplomatic efforts that are underway in this interview with CNN. The Secretary General has also issued a statement:

The NATO Secretary General, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, is seriously concerned about the events that are taking place in the Georgian region of South Ossetia and said that the Alliance is closely following the situation.

The Secretary General calls on all sides for an immediate end of the armed clashes and direct talks between the parties

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There are 2 comments in this article:

  1. 8/08/2008Sarmath says:

    I just have returned from South Ossetia. Georgians had started to shoot by heavy guns and tanks at 11.30 p.m. Obviously, it was very prepared military operation. Thousands of civilians are killed. A hospital and an University are ruined. There is no anymore ossetian city Tskinval and two villages. Just ruined. Whom we should regard as a criminal and a candidated for Haage tribunal?…

  2. 10/08/2008Bibhuti Bhusen says:

    Is the following story true? I think there will be more conflicts of this kind in future. China, too will flex it’s muscles soon. It’s soon going to be a tripolar world, far worse than the Cold War days. The brainchilds of a unipolar world will find out how deadly and costly it is going to be. Any big country won’t allow it to be surrounded by surrogate states of countries far away.

    It’s going to be the New Great Gameplan to rule oil and gas with America, Russia and China being the key players.

    George Soros & The Georgian Conflict

    GEORGE SOROS & THE GEORGIAN CONFLICT
    By Brother Nathanael Kapner, Copyright © 2008
    THE GEORGIAN “ROSE REVOLUTION” was funded by the Hungarian born Jewish financier, George Soros. The Rose Revolution forced President Eduard Shevardnadze out of office on November 23 2003 (St George’s Day in Georgia).

    Soros installed Shevardnadze’s young protege, Mikhail Saakashvili, as the new and current President of Georgia. During the three months before the coup, Saakashvili, who was schooled & groomed in America, was glorying in lavish treatment from the Zionist led US State Department and the Jewish controlled media. And in the previous summer Soros had flown Saakashvili and his followers to a “revolution training seminar” in Belgrade Serbia.

    Back in Georgia from his training by Soros in Belgrade, Saakashvili led thousands of demonstrators brandishing fresh red roses in their takeover of the President’s palace. This occurred in the freezing Georgian winter when fresh roses had to be flown in — courtesy of the Jew, George Soros, who had spent $42 million on his new Georgian puppet. No sooner had Saakashvili taken office that he vowed to bring the Russian supported South Ossetia & Abkhazia breakaway provinces back under Georgian control.

    Soros and the US State Department, indeed, had publicly committed themselves to propping up the current anti-Russian Georgian President, Mikhail Saakashvili, considered by many to be an authoritarian thug. A confrontation between Russia and the US was now in the works. And it has come to a head with the recent conflagration in South Ossetia.

    A BOILING HOT GEORGIAN COLD WAR

    AMERICA’S PRO GEORGIAN POLICY is explained by Georgia’s access to the Caspian Sea’s oil wealth. The US backed British Petroleum (BP) pipeline, running from the Caspian Sea through Georgia, then below the Black Sea into Turkey, delivers oil to Europe and the US. The US & its European allies have been competing with Russia for control of the Caspian oil rich region.

    The pipeline runs only 60 miles south of the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, which sits right smack in the middle of northern Georgia. South Ossetia broke away from Georgia in the early 1990s and exists as an independent state with full Russian support. Most South Ossetian residents hold Russian passports.

    The US considers Georgia as an ally and supports its desire to join NATO and the EU. Moscow opposes both goals. Georgia’s pro Western stance has riled Russia because Moscow regards the entire region as its own sphere of influence.

    In April 2002, the US started the “Georgia Train and Equip Program” which involved US training of Georgian forces. Soon after, Georgian militaries were sent to Iraq to form part of the US/UK occupation forces there. With regard to the current South Ossetia conflict, the US has been supplying Georgia with both equipment and military advisers. And Russia is now accusing the US of orchestrating the war.

    Moreover, the US partner in Zionist international hegemony, the State of Israel, assisted Georgia in its August 8 2008 attack on the South Ossetian capital, Tskhinvali, with a bevy of its own military advisers. This brought the conflict to a military climax.

    Thus, Georgia will continue to be a cold war hotspot with Russia and the US competing to control the Caspian oil bonanza. And the Jew, George Soros, and his puppet, Mikhail Saakashvili, have brought this new cold war centered in Georgia to a boiling head.

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