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Titolo: Ukraine Illegally Sells 40 Tanks to Georgia — Report

Ukraine Illegally Sells 40 Tanks to Georgia — Report
Created: 18.10.2006 12:17 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:28 MSK, 20 minutes ago
MosNews
 Ukraine has been illegally selling arms to Georgia amid escalating
tensions between the South Caucasus republic and Russia, Ukraine’s
Communist party leader quoted by RIA Novosti said Tuesday. 
“Ukraine has already delivered 40 tanks to Georgia,” Petro Symonenko said. 
Symonenko said Kiev is facing the risk of having sanctions imposed on it
by the international community for illegally supplying arms to warring
sides. 
However Ukraine’s Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko asked Symonenko to
fulfil his deputy’s duties instead of “going into hysterics”.
“Ukraine, in particular [state arms trader] Ukrspetseksport, indeed sold
16 tanks to Georgia last year. This is open information. It is clear to
everyone. The UN has never questioned Ukraine about this. By doing so, we
have fulfilled our duties and breached not a single law. The Communists
should calm down. They should better take care of passing the state budget
for 2007 rather than making noise in the media,” he told Ukrainian Inter
TV channel. 
Georgian President Saakashvili has pledged to restore Tbilisi’s control
over the self-proclaimed republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. His
defense minister has also said Georgian troops will celebrate New Year’s
day in the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali. 
On October 13, the UN Security Council unanimously approved a
Russian-sponsored draft resolution on Georgia urging the ex-Soviet country
to refrain from provocative actions in Abkhazia, and calling for an
extension of the Russian peacekeeping mission in the region until April
15, 2007. 
Russia retains a peacekeeping presence in South Ossetia and Abkhazia,
which gained de facto independence following bloody conflicts after the
breakup of the Soviet Union. Georgia’s leadership, which is currently
embroiled in a spying row with Russia, accuses the Kremlin of supporting
the breakaway regions’ drive for full independence. 
Georgia’s relations with Russia went sour after President Mikheil
Saakashvili came to power on the back of the “Rose Revolution” in 2003.
Both the government and parliament have sought to remove Russian
peacekeepers from conflict zones with two self-proclaimed republics, and
to force the withdrawal of Russian troops from two Soviet-era bases that
are due to close in 2008. 
Relations were further strained in September of this year after NATO
ministers, meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, endorsed
the so-called Intensified 
Dialogue with Georgia. Russia’s Foreign Ministry denounced the decision,
saying closer ties between the alliance and the ex-Soviet nation could
“seriously affect the political, military and economic interests of Russia
and undermine the fragile status quo in the Caucasus.” 
The arrest in Georgia of four Russian army officers on espionage charges a
week later sent relations to a new low, prompting Moscow to suspend
transportation and postal links with its Caucasus neighbor and to expel
hundreds of Georgian migrants, regardless of Georgia releasing the
officers, RIA Novosti adds. 
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 Ukraine Illegally Sells 40 Tanks to Georgia — Report
Lol. Perchè "illegally" ? Hanno evaso l'IVA ?
M.

 Lol. Perchè "illegally" ? Hanno evaso l'IVA ?
E l'Ucraina non era stata de-anti-russificata dal nuovo premier, quello
vecchio, che piace a Baroon?
Tb