Each participant in the 46th annual International...
outline in June 2008, less than two months before Georgia"s attack on South Ossetia. If it had received an instant reply, there would have been no shocking pause for a month and a half during which the governments and the public in Europe and the United States failed to admit that it was Georgia that attacked Russia, not the other way round.Other participants in the conference, including China and Iran, had their own Ossetias, which have seriously undermined their trust in the West. Trust must be restored if they are to become NATO"s partners (in many cases such partnership is essential).
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke about these issues in Munich on Saturday. Varying from 8 to 17 lines in different formats, media reports on his speech are repeating one and the same statements. The actual speech itself consists of 190 lines or almost 11,000 characters and contains many sound ideas.
Mr Lavrov suggested that the Euro-Atlantic space, of which Russia
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