Russia has another diplomatic row with Georgia that may incur big troubles for RF Ambassador to Tbilisi Vyacheslav Kovalenko, on the photo.
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Russia, Georgia Go Through Another Diplomatic Row
Moscow has another diplomatic row with Tbilisi that may incur big troubles for RF Ambassador Vyacheslav Kovalenko. This time, the cause of the clashes is the dying-out forecast of ambassador for Georgia.
Russia’s Ambassador to Georgia Vyacheslav Kovalenko was summoned to Georgian Foreign Ministry yesterday to stand for the statements that he made past Friday, during the globalization meeting with Georgian intellectuals. After pointing out that only 3 million Georgians actually live in Georgia, the ambassador explicitely said: “You have turned into relict and dying-out nation. Russia is an enormous state, it is able to digest demographic difficulties, but you, the Georgians, won’t get through this problem, you will disappear.”
The demographic scandal of both states continued yesterday when the youth of Georgia rallied near the RF embassy in Tbilisi demanding to call xenophobe Kovalenko persona non grata in Georgia.
The response of Georgian leadership was equally tough. Such statements are inadmissible for an ambassador accredited in the country, said Parliament Speaker Nino Burjanadze, advising to Kovalenko to be more concerned about the demographic situation in his country and vowing that Georgia will independently sort out its demographic problems.
Russia’s embassy attempted to play down the words of the diplomat using the usual misinterpretation and out-of-the-context arguments. The ambassador couldn’t be reached for comment yesterday.
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All the Article in Russian as of Sep. 25, 2007
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