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Thursday, 03 February 2005

LAVROV CRITICIZES POLITICAL REMARKS ON ZHVANIA\'S DEATH

Published in News Digest

By empty (2/3/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called on Georgian politicians to refrain from reaching biased conclusions on Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania\'s death. \"Let us leave politically motivated conclusions on the conscience of those who are making them,\" Lavrov told a press conference on Thursday. He was commenting on a Georgian parliamentarian\'s claim that the Tuesday terrorist attack in Gori and Zhvania\'s death on Thursday are interrelated and that Moscow is behind them.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called on Georgian politicians to refrain from reaching biased conclusions on Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania\'s death. \"Let us leave politically motivated conclusions on the conscience of those who are making them,\" Lavrov told a press conference on Thursday. He was commenting on a Georgian parliamentarian\'s claim that the Tuesday terrorist attack in Gori and Zhvania\'s death on Thursday are interrelated and that Moscow is behind them. Such conclusions \"do not help find the truth and do not promote the development of Russian-Georgian relations,\" Lavrov said. \"Russia is truly interested in developing relations with Georgia,\" he said. (Interfax)
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