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Transcript: RUSSIAN PRESIDENT DMITRY MEDVEDEV AND FRENCH PRESIDENT NICOLASRUSSIAN PRESIDENT DMITRY MEDVEDEV AND FRENCH PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE SITUATION IN GEORGIA
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- August 12, 2008
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Washington Transcript Service
08-12-2008
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT MEDVEDEV AND FRENCH PRESIDENT SARKOZY
HOLD A PRESS CONFERENCE
AUGUST 12, 2008
SPEAKERS: RUSSIAN PRESIDENT DMITRY MEDVEDEV
FRENCH PRESIDENT NICOLAS SARKOZY
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MEDVEDEV (through translator): Yesterday, unfortunately, there
were losses, there were casualties and there was artillery and small arms
fire were used and there was no cease-fire from the Georgian side.
People who don't smell blood, well, it's difficult to act in a
surgical way. Now today, all the conditions exist for achieving our mission.
And this brought about the possibility to look at the basic questions
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