Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has called for a quick end to the crisis over Georgia ahead of a European Union emergency summit.
Writing in a guest column to be printed in the German business daily Handelsblatt, Lavrov said Moscow was grateful for the efforts of the French EU presidency and will still respect all the agreements in the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan. The Russian minister said Russia had no interest in a rift with Europe nearly 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. European leaders are still debating a response to Russia's military intervention in Georgia that could include measures to reduce Europe's dependency on Russian oil and gas.
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