Georgia Raised in U.S.-Russia Prague Summit

Georgia was raised during the U.S.-Russia summit in Prague in the context of those issues on which the two countries have disagreements, a White House senior advisor said.

U.S. and Russian Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev signed a new arms deal on April 8 to restrict the number of nuclear weapons each country holds.

“I think we’ve made remarkable achievement in a short amount of time.  But I also want to underscore we also talked about the things that we disagree about,” Michael McFaul, President Obama’s senior director for Russian affairs, told reporters in Prague on April 8. 

In this context, he said, that “Georgia came up today again.”

He also said that crisis prevention mechanisms in Europe needed to be strengthened.

“Prevention mechanisms, alert, all those kinds of things that so when we see a potential conflict brewing we have ways to defuse it, rather than just reacting to it afterwards.  And Georgia was invoked today in that discussion,” McFaul said.

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