KOUCHNER: EU FAILED TO PAY PROPER ATTENTION TO CAUCASUS

PanARMENIAN.Net
28.10.2008 17:54 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the
European Union failed to pay proper attention to the Caucasus.

"During the past ten year, and even more, we did not pay proper
attention to the region," he said after the Russia-EU ministerial
meeting in Saint Petersburg.

For his part, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated that Russia
will endorse any effort "to prevent aggression," RIA Novosti reports.

Georgian armed forces attacked South Ossetia on August 8 morning. As
a countermeasure, Russia sent troops to the peacekeepers deployed
in the region and carried out an operation which was followed by
recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.