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Russia "seeks dialogue with EU", Medvedev tells London
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 30 - 08 - 2008


Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has
stressed in a telephone call to British Premier Gordon Brown that
Moscow wants a "constructive dialogue" with the European Union
irrespective of the Georgia conflict, it was reported Saturday, according to dpa.
He told Brown that Russia welcomed the deployment of Organisation
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) observers in the
conflict regions of Georgia, Interfax news agency reported.
He also renewed Russian accusations that the Georgian leadership
under President Mikheil Saakashvili was responsible for the southern
Caucasus conflict.
It was "aggression" from Tbilisi towards its separatist regions of
South Ossetia and Abkhasia that had made it impossible for these
regions to live in peace within Georgia.
Georgian media reports meanwhile quoted Saakashvili as saying
Tbilisi was to introduce tougher laws to stop Georgia being
"destabilised" following the recent invasion by Russian troops.
Saakashvili was speaking late Friday during a visit to the Black
Sea town of Poti where there was still a Russian troop presence, the
reports said.
Saakashvili had given no details of what measures were being
introduced, but had stressed that "citizens' rights" would not be
affected.
Saakashvili again accused Russia of having planned to overthrow the
Tbilisi leadership by force - a claim once again denied late Friday by
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The claim, he told a German television interviewer, was "an
outright lie" - but he also said he believed Saakashvili should step
down.
"He ought not to be in public office," said Putin. "He ought to
resign immediately."
Putin also called for the European Union to take a "reasonable
attitude" on the Caucasus conflict at an EU summit in Brussels next
Monday, and not impose sanctions.
"The issue of sanctions is not something we don't care about," he
said. "We hope that reasonableness prevails."
Putin said Russia intended to withdraw its soldiers from the buffer
zone they had take over in uncontested Georgian territory as soon as
the crisis de-escalates.
Putin's remarks came as Russian and European officials tried to
curb escalating tensions as diplomats on both sides spoke out against
sanctions.
Sanctions are among measure set to be discussed in Brussels Monday
by EU leaders furious over Moscow's slow withdrawal of troops from
Georgia.


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