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Tbilisi accuses Moscow of making 'undisguised threat'
 
August 02, 2009
 
 
TBIL ISI (AFP) - Tbilisi on Saturday accused Russia of having made an undisguised threat and of having dangerous designs on Georgia after Moscow warned that it reserved the right to use military force in the Caucasus. The Russian defence ministrys expression of its readiness 'to use all available force and means against Georgia is an undisguised threat, the Georgian foreign ministry said in a statement. The ministry of foreign affairs of Georgia expresses deep concern and condemns in the most categorical terms the Russian sides militarist statements, which aim at further destabilising the situation and causing the unfolding of a dangerous scenario of events, the statement said. The military rhetoric unleashed recently by the Russian defence ministry and a number of top military officials shed ample light on Russias dangerous designs against Georgia, it said.
 
 
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