Putin: Russia Assists Georgia through IMF
Russia’s Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, said on August 26 that Russia was also contributing to international financial assistance to Georgia via IMF.
“Russia provides assistance to Georgia too,” Putin said at a joint news conference in Moscow with breakaway South Ossetian leader, Eduard Kokoity.
“You probably know, that Georgia receives considerable funds through IMF. We [Russia] are active members of IMF and are regularly allocating significant resources to that international financial organization, which are then distributed among the countries in need, including to Georgia.”
“It once again confirms that we are not interested in humiliating Georgia; we are not interested in having winners and losers,” Putin said. “We are interested in creating stable situation, which would guarantee a long-term peace and stability for all the people living in the Caucasus region.”
His remarks followed a question about Russia’s assistance to Tskhinvali.
Putin reiterated that Russia remained committed to its pledge of providing 10 billion rubles (about USD 317 million) of assistance to South Ossetia of which 2.8 billion rubles aim at budgetary support and 8.5 billion rubles for infrastructure rehabilitation. 3.5 billion rubles out of 8.5 billion have already been allocated, Putin said.
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