Georgia eyes economic development, wary of Russia - deputy PM


  • World
  • Thursday, 25 Sep 2014

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Ukraine crisis has refreshed Georgia's wariness in dealing with Russia, its former Soviet master with whom it fought a five-day war in 2008 that left it with two breakaway regions loyal to Moscow, the country's deputy prime minister said.

"But at the same time we need to be in line with the European policy of de-escalation in the region. De-escalation is the most important thing now," Georgian Deputy Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday.

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