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"In his speech today, Mr Barroso said that the Georgian question had been touched on. We all know that a touch can be either a gentle caress or the hug of a bear. At the press conference in Lahti last Friday evening, we all found out, to our great surprise, that nothing is happening between Georgia and Russia, and that instead there is a conflict between Georgia on the one hand, and Abkhazia and Ossetia on the other. According to President Putin, the situation is nearing the point of bloodshed. Last month, however, Putin informed Western journalists that if Kosovo were to be separated from Serbia, Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria would definitely break away. Since these are not island states, separation would actually mean being incorporated into Russia. That is a serious revision of the 1975 Helsinki Agreement. Mr President, we know that the conflict between Russia and Georgia is not about a provocation on the part of Georgia, but rather a new awakening of Imperial Russia, which is based on the one hand on inciting Russian nationalism, and on the other hand on the use of energy supplies for the restoration of the empire. The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline is also not insignificant in this matter. I call upon all European Union institutions to defend Georgia with a stronger hand than … ("@en1
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