Saakashvili: Russia Walks Out of Talks
President Saakashvili said that Russia walked out of the Geneva talks – something, he said, he had “feared” would happen.
“Although Georgia was very constructive, although there was an opportunity to hold serious talks with the mediation of the EU and the United States, the Russians – as I feared and as I suspected – left the negotiations and walked out,” Saakashvili told journalists in Brussels on October 15.
“If anyone still imagined that it was possible to achieve something in these conditions, they should now have a rest.”
He said that the actions of the Russian negotiators "basically means that Russia has no interest whatsoever at this stage in any diplomatic process.”
“This is exactly how the Soviet Union acted in the worst years of the Cold War. This is very regrettable. This will not of course stop our struggle for our independence and territorial integrity; this confirms once again what kind of people and what kind of diplomacy we are dealing with.
“We will continue working with our friends, with our partners; we will continue our consistent struggle for Georgia’s de-occupation and for the withdrawal of Russian troops from the occupied territories.”
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