Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has been in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, trying to drum up support for Russia's stance on two breakaway Georgian provinces.
Russia has attracted widespread condemnation for its military action in Abkhazia and South Ossetia over the past two weeks. At the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, or SCO, Medvedev had hoped to get China on side as a powerful ally. The SCO instead Georgia calls South Ossetia ceasefire, offers talks to Russia ...
Global Media Forum continues ... issued a joint statement that denounces the use of force and calls for respect for every country's territorial integrity. China has been reluctant to back Russia on the issue, as it struggles with its own regional separatists. The SCO includes Russia, China and four ex-Soviet Central Asian states.
(Deutsche Welle)
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