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Article: European leaders united by call to freeze ties with Moscow
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 19, 2008
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European leaders will attempt to bury their differences and send
a tough message to Moscow at an emergency meeting of Nato today,
where there will be calls to freeze ties between the Western
alliance and Russia in the aftermath of the war in Georgia.
The US and Britain want Nato foreign ministers in Brussels to
insist that Georgia's territorial integrity is "inviolable", British
diplomats said. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned
last week that the world could "forget about" Georgia ever
recovering its breakaway territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The diplomats said the meeting is expected to reaffirm Nato's
invitation to both Georgia and Ukraine for eventual membership ...