Tbilisi Says West Keeps More Watchful Eye on Georgia

The Georgian senior officials said on August 5, that unlike last August, now the western powers were keeping closer eye on developments in Georgia, which they said, played an important deterrent role for Russia.

Eka Tkeshelashvili, the secretary of Georgian national security council, said that phone conversation between the U.S. and Russian Presidents, followed by phone talks between Vice President Biden and President Saakashvili demonstrated that “unlike last August, now the international community is fully ready for an immediate response” in case of renewed Russian aggression.

Temur Iakobashvili, the Georgian state minister for reintegration, said intensive high level diplomatic efforts indicated that the United States would not “repeat the same mistake as the [Bush] administration did last year, when it did not believe that Russia would have made such step” to attack Georgia.

Shota Utiashvili, head of the Georgian Interior Ministry’s information and analytical department, told Imedi TV on August 5 that although threat of “provocations” from the territory occupied by the Russian forces persisted, there was no sign indicating on possibility of reoccurrence of the last year’s aggression from Russia.

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