Russians accuse West of war-like moves

Karachi News.Net
Saturday 6th September, 2008

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at the meeting of his advisory state council, has accused the West of acting provocatively in the Black Sea, where the United States has deployed warships to deliver aid to Georgia.

President Medvedev, in claiming a whole fleet had been deployed by the US to deliver aid, said: 'I wonder how they would feel if we now dispatched humanitarian assistance to the Caribbean using our navy?'

The United States has used warships to ferry relief supplies to Georgia since its brief war with Russia in early August.

But the US and NATO have rejected talk of a build-up of its warships in the Black Sea, saying their recent presence in the region was part of a humanitarian exercise.

Russia has also accused US warships of rearming Tbilisi's defeated army, a charge dismissed as 'ridiculous' by Washington.

The USS Mount Whitney, the flagship of the United States Navy's Sixth Fleet, is one of the warships to drop anchor off Georgia's Russian-patrolled port of Poti.

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