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Russia to demand urgent Russia-NATO Council meeting
13:59 | *11*/ *08*/ 2008
MOSCOW, August 11 (RIA Novosti) - Russia will demand an extraordinary
Russia-NATO Council meeting on Tuesday over the situation in South
Ossetia, Russia's envoy to the North Atlantic alliance said on Monday.
Georgia launched major ground and air attacks to seize control of South
Ossetia on Friday, prompting Russia to send in tanks and hundreds of
troops. Around 2,000 civilians have since died in Tskhinvali, according
to Russia. A total of 34,000 people are also reported to have fled
across the Russian border.
"Tomorrow, when Georgia's foreign minister arrives in Brussels and,
possibly, the NATO Council is convened, Russia will demand an
extraordinary meeting of the Russia-NATO Council to present our
arguments and the truth about the methods of the Saakashvili regime and
measures being taken by our peacekeepers," Dmitry Rogozin said.
A top Russian diplomat accused foreign media on Sunday of pro-Georgian
bias in their coverage of the conflict between Georgia and Russia over
breakaway South Ossetia.
"We want television screens in the West to be showing not only Russian
tanks and saying Russia is at war in South Ossetia and with Georgia, but
also to be showing the suffering of the Ossetian people, the murdered
elderly people and children, the destroyed towns of South Ossetia, and
[regional capital] Tskhinvali. This would be an objective way of
presenting the material," Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin told a
RIA Novosti news conference.
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