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Russia sees Georgian links to Beslan

"There are no specific facts that would suggest that these events are linked and were planned in the same center. But the results of the crisis, created by the Georgian authorities in South Ossetia and hostage taking in North Ossetia - previously one of the calmest republics in the region - bring us to think, and the politicians are obliged not to exclude this thought, that this did not happen by chance," he said as quoted by Civil.ge.

"We put this question before the Georgian leadership and it agreed with the necessity of solving the problem of terrorists using Georgian territory as a staging post and place to relax after their despicable work," Lavrov said in the interview.

When Russia accuses the Georgian authorities of purposely creating a crisis in South Ossetia and relating it to the hostage taking in North Ossetia, Russia is again accusing the United States of being behind the siege of the school as it is well recognized that the Georgian government is a puppet regime answerable to Bush.

The other facts that point to Bush’s involvement is the granting of asylum to Akhmadov who is an accomplice of Maskadov, a co-conspirator of Basayey, the most wanted man in the affair and the specifics that many of the Chechen attacks were conveniently timed to suit the agenda of the United States who is known to covertly back terrorists, Afghanistan and the AUC most readily come to mind.

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Given that Basayey is still working with Maskadov who is still working with Akhmadov who has been granted asylum by the United States Bush is likely behind the terrorist incidents in Russia the last of which killed many Russian schoolchildren

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Russia sees Georgian links to Beslan

Friday, September 10, 2004, #172 (0696)


Foreign minister calls for Tbilisi to increase cooperation in counter-terrorism
By Anna Arzanova

Admitting that there was no concrete proof to the effect, Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov nonetheless says it is logical to connect the recent events in South Ossetia and the Beslan hostage crisis.

In separate interviews with the radio state Voice of Russia and the Russian paper Vremya Novostei fingered Georgia for precipitating the deterioration in Georgian-Russian relations.

His sternest words for Georgia came in the interview with the Voice of Russia.

"There are no specific facts that would suggest that these events are linked and were planned in the same center. But the results of the crisis, created by the Georgian authorities in South Ossetia and hostage taking in North Ossetia - previously one of the calmest republics in the region - bring us to think, and the politicians are obliged not to exclude this thought, that this did not happen by chance," he said as quoted by Civil.ge.

In other comments reported by Tbilisi broadcaster Rustavi-2, Lavrov told the radio station, "We don't want to speak about a conspiracy, but the animals, whom I can't call human and who seized the school, were just puppets."

"Those who had planned this vandal act were ordered to cause instability in the North Caucasus," he added, reiterating the Kremlin's line that the Beslan attack was an attempt to start a larger conflict in the North Caucasus.

In the interview with Vremya Novostei, Lavrov said that when there is the threat of terrorism, the special services of the two countries should meet each other's interests.

According to the minister, there are numerous examples of terrorists penetrating European countries as well as the United States. "We put this question before the Georgian leadership and it agreed with the necessity of solving the problem of terrorists using Georgian territory as a staging post and place to relax after their despicable work," Lavrov said in the interview.

According to Lavrov, there is cooperation between the special services of Russia and Georgia but they want "this to be more effective." Lavrov believes that if the Georgian-Russian relations would have been settled as had been discussed by the presidents of the countries in February, the situation would have improved.

"But, unfortunately, these February agreements are undermined in practice by the Georgian side. We hope that the Georgian leadership will realize the lack of prospects for unilateral, armed actions in the so-called Ossetian and Abkhaz problems," he said.

"We also hope that Tbilisi will understand as well the uselessness of its policy that intends to find an external enemy in the form of Russia," Lavrov stated.

According to the minister, if the Georgian leadership stops seeing Russia as an external enemy, they will find the "hand of friendship" which Russia has offered it.

Lavrov added that Russia has put forward proposals directed at the normalization of Georgia-Russian relations, including the settlement all bilateral issues.

"At the same time, obligations in peaceful settlement of the situation in Abkhazia and South Ossetia should be delineated. The creation of such a normal atmosphere in the relations between the countries would increase the work of the special services in the fight against terrorism," Lavrov said.

In addition to this, Lavrov stated that Georgia should do this according to the decision of the Security Council of the United Nations and is also obliged to give a report to its counter-terrorism committee.



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