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Lithuanian Foreign Minister heads to Georgia to assess situation

09 August 2008 12:21 (UTC +04:00)

Tbilisi-APA. Lithuanian Foreign Minister Petras Vaitiekunas was Friday heading to Georgia to take stock of the crisis there and put fellow European Union member states in the picture. APA reports quoting Novosti-Gruziya.
The Lithuanian Foreign ministry said Vaitiekunas’ mission - ordered by President Valdas Adamkus - followed consultations with his counterparts in Finland, Latvia, Poland, Sweden and Ukraine.
Vaitiekunas would "inform European Union partners" about the situation on the ground, it added.
In a separate statement, the Foreign Ministry took Moscow to task over its role in South Ossetia, where Georgia says Russian peacekeeping forces have been supporting separatists in the breakaway region.
"The events of the latter days only continue to cast doubts on whether the country that proclaims itself as a peacemaker can carry out such mission," it said, adding it was time for the E.U. and other international organizations to take a stand.