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Condoleezza Rice: â€œRussia must leave â€œdangerous gameâ€ with the Westâ€

19 August 2008 09:48 (UTC +04:00)

Washingtonâ€“APA. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Russia was playing â€œvery dangerous gameâ€ and the West must deprive Russia of any strategic victory in the North Caucasian conflict. â€œWe have to deny Russian strategic objectives, which are clearly to undermine Georgia’s democracy, to use its military capability to damage and in some cases destroy Georgian infrastructure and to try and weaken the Georgian stateâ€, said Rice. She noted that NATO foreign ministers would discuss at their emergency meeting in Brussels the ways to assure Dmitriy Medvedev to keep his promise to withdraw troops from Georgia. â€œI think the French president will demand from Russia explanations of dishonor of its promises. Peoples can feel themselves protected by the Trans-Atlantic institutions. We should remind that Russia is far from the role of geo-strategic center once former USSR played. Russian strategic air forces even violated the US borders. It is very dangerous game and the Russians must leave this gameâ€.