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Article: VOA NEWS: U.S. SAYS GEORGIA ERRED IN AUGUST ATTACK IN SOUTH OSSETIA
- Article from:
- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- November 7, 2008
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The Voice of America issued the following story:
By David Gollust
The U.S. State Department said Friday the Georgian attack in South Ossetia last August was a mistake, but that it did not justify Russia's large-scale intervention. The comments follow a critical newspaper assessment of the Tbilisi government's role in the crisis. VOA's David Gollust reports from the State Department.
In its most specific comments on the subject to date, the State Department says Georgian leaders made a mistake when they attacked the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, in August.
But officials here say overall culpability for the war may never be known, and the focus now should be on getting ...