Archive for November, 2010

Begin Summary: Intense fighting began in South Ossetia the evening of August 6 and continued into the daylight hours August 7.  3. © Comment. The fighting which began well before dusk on August 6 and which continued into the early daylight hours of August 7,...

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UNCLAS USNATO 000275 SENSITIVE SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: MOPS, NATO, PREL, GG, RS SUBJECT: GEORGIAN NATO MISSION STATEMENT ON SITUATION IN SOUTH OSSETIA 1. (SBU) On August 8, the Georgian Mission to NATO distributed the following statement to Allies: Statement of the Government of...

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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 TBILISI 001337 SIPDIS DEPT FOR EUR/CARC E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/07/2018 TAGS: PGOV, PREL, RU, GG SUBJECT: SITREP 1: FIGHTING IN SOUTH OSSETIA ESCALATES Classified By: AMBASSADOR JOHN F. TEFFT...

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C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 01 OF 02 TBILISI 001336 SIPDIS DEPT FOR EUR/CARC E.O. 12958: DECL: 08/07/2018 TAGS: PGOV, PREL, RU, GG August 8. End Summary and Comment. Official Response —————— 4. © In an August...

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British Prime Minister David Cameron said on November 22, that he and President Obama had both raised Georgia during NATO-Russia Council meeting in Lisbon. In his statement to the House of Commons about the NATO Summit in Lisbon, PM Cameron mentioned Georgia when speaking about...

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Lisbon Summit Declaration Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the NATO summit in Lisbon issued declaration, in which three paragraphs refer to Georgia. “20. Stability and successful political and economic reform in Georgia and Ukraine are important to Euro-Atlantic security. We...

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NATO`s position on Georgia remains the same”, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said at a briefing in Lisbon. “I hope to see a resolution to that very unfortunate conflict. I can assure you that within the framework we have created for consultations with Russia, we...

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For some time now, the activities of Russia’s intelligence operatives have been a source of material for jokes rather than spy novels. Their foibles have become something of a “What Not to Do” textbook for foreign counterintelligence. The FBI only recently deported 10 failed Russian...

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Georgia on Friday accused 13 people, including four Russian citizens, of passing information to Russia’s GRU military spy agency during the brief August 2008 war between the two countries. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin immediately denounced the Georgian claims as “a political farce.” The...

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