Get your licks in while you can NATO. Hope and change is coming. And with that, well you know...
Nato's secretary general has demanded that Russia withdraw troops it sent to the disputed breakaway Georgian province of Abkhazia last week.Russia and China. It's the new jihad people!
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer accused Russia of breaching Georgia's sovereignty by sending in military railway personnel.
Mr de Hoop Scheffer said the Russian move was "contributing to instability in what is already a volatile area".
Russia announced on Saturday that it was sending 300 members of an unarmed unit from the army's railway force to the province to help carry out repairs on the network, labelling the move a humanitarian effort.
Georgia responded that Russia is planning a military intervention in the province.
"These forces should be withdrawn, and both Russia and Georgia should engage quickly in a high-level and open dialogue to de-escalate tensions," Mr de Hoop Scheffer said.
The Abkhaz minority demanded independence from Georgia after the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Several thousand people were killed before Georgian forces were driven out in 1993. About 250,000 Georgians were displaced by the fighting.
There are around 2,000 Russians posted in Abkhazia, and about 1,000 in South Ossetia.
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