Moscow Says NATO Begins Supplying New Arms To Georgia

Source: Ria Novosti

BOCHAROV RUCHEI (Sochi), August 26 (RIA Novosti) - NATO countries are starting new arms deliveries to Georgia, the Russian foreign minister said Tuesday.

Sergei Lavrov accused those who were supporting the Georgian leadership, which started the hostilities in South Ossetia, of being "cynical and hypocritical."

"According to our information, they are even starting to supply new types of weapons, restoring the military infrastructure that was used in the aggression," he said.

Lavrov said Georgian President Mikheil Saakashivli had received promises that "NATO will defend him" and "rearm his regime."

Asked precisely which countries were currently rearming Georgia, the Russian minister said: "Virtually all states that are supplying arms to Georgia are NATO member countries."

He said Saakashvili's "foreign sponsors" had played an extremely "destructive" role in providing him with offensive weapons prior to the armed confrontation with Georgia's breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

He stressed that all such supplies were at odds with OSCE and EU rules and regulations.

Read more: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20080826/116296615.html

Where is the evidence. All NATO countries? I'd like to see a specific list.

"Virtually all states that are supplying arms to Georgia are NATO member countries."

It doesn't say that ALL Nato countries are supplying arms - simply that the <majority of> states which are infact doing so are <also >Nato members.

but which ones, what are they supplying, and what evidence do they have?

Well we know that US/Polish/Canadian ships are on there way to Georgia. And let's face it you don't use combat ships for humanitarian aid, if that's really what you're doing, you use supply ships that have the cargo capacity required.

As for evidence, what more is required then the "foreign policy" agenda of this administration?

:shrug:

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So the issue is Putin wants to beat the war drums as a preemptive strike on the capitol to arrest the bloodthirsty Georgian president and install a more friendly regime ;).

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:shrug:

by destroying their equipment and facilities. In the long run you had to figure that the weapons would be replaced with more up-to-date equipment, so that the Georgian military may be more modern after all of this than it was before.

"He added that Russian warships would patrol the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, 'as well as other parts of the world's oceans,' on a regular basis."

In the context of his statements re-NATO re-supplying Georgia, this seems a little threatening. Is he talking about a blockade? Interdiction? WTF?

:wtf:

considering that the US has been giving military aid to Georgia for some time, it would be likely that it and other NATO states would be attempting to rebuild and bolster Georgia's military.