He said he respected Klaus's different opinion on the development in the region but insisted on his position.
According to Schwarzenberg, it is a pity that constitutional officials have failed to consult each other before publishing their views. Klaus criticised Georgia for having unleashed the conflict in the Caucasus in an article in the daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) today. He blamed Georgian politicians for the current war in the region. "Regarding the responsibility for the triggering of the war, the role of Georgian President [Mikhail Saakashvili] is beyond any Czech cabinet to discuss situation in Georgia next week ...
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UN report says Russia shot down Georgian spy plane ... discussion and evidently fatal," Klaus said in his article. Schwarzenberg, on the contrary, said earlier that it was Russia who had inflamed the long smouldering conflict. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (senior ruling Social Democrats, ODS) said after the fighting erupted in Georgia that he saw a parallel between the Russian forces' invasion of Ossetia and the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the former Warsaw Pact forces in 1968. On Tuesday, Schwarzenberg will leave for Brussels to take part in a meeting that will try to find ways to solving the war conflict in Georgia. The fighting between Georgia and Russia flared up a week ago when Georgian units reportedly attempted to conquer Georgia's separatist pro-Russian province South Ossetia. In reaction to it, Russia occupied the province and also invaded areas elsewhere in Georgia, including Abkhazia, another separatist province.
(Ceske Noviny)
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