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    RUSSIA ACCUSES CHENEY OF ULTERIOR MOTIVES IN VISIT

    Associated Press Worldstream
    September 3, 2008 Wednesday 11:04 AM GMT

    A Russian security official says U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is
    seeking U.S. access to oil and gas during a trip to the resource-rich
    Caucasus.

    Nikolai Patrushev says the goal of Cheney's visit to Azerbaijan,
    Georgia and Ukraine is to trade U.S. support for energy supplies.

    He says the U.S. had to ensure these countries had "corresponding
    regimes" in order to make that happen.

    Patrushev is the head of Russia's powerful presidential Security
    Council, and is in the Armenian capital of Yerevan for a meeting of
    a Moscow-led bloc called the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

    Patrushev said Wednesday that the seven-member bloc had unanimously
    backed Russia's actions in its short war with Georgia last month.
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