Georgia-Russia: Still Insecure and Dangerous

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“blank”>http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=6171&l=1. Source: International Crisis Group.

This report examines the situation ten months after the August 2008 war and finds deep cause for concern. Moscow’s 15 June Security Council veto of an extension of the sixteen-year-old UN observer mission’s mandate in Georgia and Abkhazia and its apparent intention to require the removal of the mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) by 30 June are blows to regional security that will fuel tensions.

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