Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has rejected foreign mediation offers over Georgia's separatist Abkhazia region.
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EU's Solana visits Afghanistan, Pakistan ... paid a visit to Abkhazia and offered EU mediation to help resolve the growing tensions between Georgia and neighbouring Russia. Despite Western pressure on Russia over its support for the Abkhaz separatists, Medvedev said Russia and Georgia were capable of solving the dispute themselves. He made the comments during talks with the pro-Western Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, at a regional summit near Saint Petersburg. The talks also covered Georgian aspirations to join NATO. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned that such a step would not help resolve the conflict but would rather lead to another spiral of confrontation in the area.
(Deutsche Welle)
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