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Russian, U.S. Diplomats Discuss Caucasus, Ukraine
Tuesday, September 30, 2008 7:59 PM

(Source: Daily News Bulletin; Moscow – English)MOSCOW. Sept 30
(Interfax) – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, at a
meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Russia John Beyrle on Tuesday,
"stressed the need for extensive involvement on the part of the
international community in building strong guarantees of non-use of
force by Georgia," the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Karasin and
Beyrle, who met in Moscow, discussed "the security situation in
Transcaucasia in light of the implementation of the Russian-French
conflict settlement principles of August 12 and September 8," the
ministry said in a press release.

"Problems surrounding the Nagorno-Karabakh settlement process and the
domestic political situation in Ukraine were also touched upon," it
said.