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NATO whitewash and rearm criminal regime of Georgia – Russian FM

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Published 19 August, 2008, 14:26

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has commented on the result of Tuesday’s NATO Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels.

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