| Medvedev criticizes US Senate over Georgia resolution 05.08.11 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev chided "senile" US senators on Thursday (August 4) for urging Moscow to withdraw troops from Georgia`s breakaway regions. The Senate resolution reiterates Washington`s long-standing call for Russian troops to comply with the terms of a ceasefire ending its five-day war with Georgia in August 2008 and withdraw from the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Speaking in his first interview with Georgian media since the war, Medvedev said the US Senate resolution reflected the opinion of a few senators. "I believe that these statements of the (US) Senate are not based on anything. They reflect the views of some of its senile members, which have a liking for certain people for their internal reasons. This is a foreign parliament and it is their own business. I don`t care about them or their rhetoric," Medvedev said. The comments were a rare barb at Washington from Medvedev, who has worked closely with US President Barack Obama`s team to oversee a much-touted "reset" in relations between their two countries following a low ebb over the Georgia war. Medvedev said that Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili made the decision to stage a military assault to retake its rebel South Ossetia region, sparking the war with Russia, after then-US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Tbilisi in a show of US support. "Quite an obvious thing for me - after I later analyzed the ... |
