“Russia has taken a series of diplomatic steps in an apparent
effort to ease tensions with the West over this month's conflict in
Georgia.
“President Dmitry Medvedev told UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown
Moscow wanted more monitors from Europe's security body in Georgia,
the Kremlin said.”
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“In a separate development, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
spoke to his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
“They both "agreed on the need to put an end to attempts
to use the situation surrounding Georgia... to raise tensions in Europe
by speculating on non-existent threats concerning other post-Soviet
countries," a Russian foreign ministry statement said.”
