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U.S. Sided With Georgia in South Ossetian War
By helping deliver Georgian military from Iraq, the United States has created a precedent of co-participation in the conflict on the side of Tbilisi, Russia’s General Staff Deputy Chief General-Colonel Anatoly Nogovitsyn announced Tuesday, during the briefing attended by ambassadors and military attaches of more than 100 nations.
Georgian leadership resolved August 8 to call back its military contingent from Iraq and addressed Washington with the request to deliver the military by its combat transport jets, Nogovitsyn reminded.
According to Nogovitsyn, the impetuous advance of Russia’s troops in South Ossetia made Georgia’s leadership panic-stricken to the extent that Saakashvili even asked Washington to provide a jet for leaving Georgia. The panic was uncontrolled, and 50 Georgian tanks hastily retreating from Tskhinvali were mistaken for Russia’s armed vehicles, the official said.
Nogovitsyn touched upon the role of Israel as the military and engineering partner of Georgia before the start of the conflict in South Ossetia. But Russia has no data that the cooperation continues, the official pointed out. At the same time, Nogovitsyn confirmed that Israel had supplied to Georgia eight drones, including four Hermes 450s, specifying that exactly those drones had been spying in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Yesterday, the U.S. policy in the Caucasus was subjected to the fierce criticism of Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev. Medvedev explicitly accused Washington of having plotted Georgia’s assault. The president made the respective statement during the briefing held after his meeting with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Medvedev also recalled the guidelines for Russia's new foreign policy, where the rejection of unipolarity and preventing any states from dominating worldwide are amid the basic provisions.
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