US Vice President Dick Cheney is in Georgia.
That's the latest stop on his tour of three former Soviet states, which is meant to signal support for its government after the country's military conflict with Russia last month. Following a meeting with President Mikhail Saakashvili in the capital, Tbilisi, Cheney stressed the need to resolve the status of Georgia's two separatist regions. Cheney is the highest-ranking US official to visit Georgia since it tried to retake the breakaway region of South Ossetia by force early last month. In the brief war that ensued, Russian troops and tanks crushed Georgian forces and pushed deep into Rice faces tough task in Mid-East ...
Georgia calls South Ossetia ceasefire, offers talks to Russia ... the former-Soviet state's territory. The Kremlin says Washington is fuelling tensions in the region by encouraging President Saakashvili. On Wednesday US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced one billion dollars in reconstruction aid for Georgia.
(Deutsche Welle)
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