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SHEVARDNAZDE SUGGESTS THAT WEST BOYCOTT SOCHI OLYMPIC GAMES
ARMENPRESS
Oct 22, 2007
TBILISI, OCTOBER 22, ARMENPRESS: Georgia's former president Eduard
Shevardnadze has suggested that the leading Western nations boycott
the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Russia if the Kremlin refuses to
regulate the Abkhazian conflict.
Shevardnadze, who was ousted by Mikhail Saakashvili in 2003 "revolution
of roses" made the remark during a recent visit to Germany where he
was received by Dietrich Genscher.
"We discussed the Abkhazia conflict with Genscher and the
Russian-Georgian relations. I praised Putin for (allowing) ethnic
Georgians' return to Gali region, but I also said that that was
just the beginning. If Russia refuses to settle the South Ossetian
and Abkhazian conflicts, it should be punished like the former Soviet
Union was punished back in 1980 when the USA and many Western countries
boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games for Afghanistan invasion,"'
Shevardnadze said to a Georgian Kviris Palitra newspaper.
ARMENPRESS
Oct 22, 2007
TBILISI, OCTOBER 22, ARMENPRESS: Georgia's former president Eduard
Shevardnadze has suggested that the leading Western nations boycott
the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Russia if the Kremlin refuses to
regulate the Abkhazian conflict.
Shevardnadze, who was ousted by Mikhail Saakashvili in 2003 "revolution
of roses" made the remark during a recent visit to Germany where he
was received by Dietrich Genscher.
"We discussed the Abkhazia conflict with Genscher and the
Russian-Georgian relations. I praised Putin for (allowing) ethnic
Georgians' return to Gali region, but I also said that that was
just the beginning. If Russia refuses to settle the South Ossetian
and Abkhazian conflicts, it should be punished like the former Soviet
Union was punished back in 1980 when the USA and many Western countries
boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games for Afghanistan invasion,"'
Shevardnadze said to a Georgian Kviris Palitra newspaper.