Cuba Backs Russia Over Crisis In Georgia

August 11th, 2008 Posted By Snooper.

Daily Telegraph

CUBA has backed Russia in its conflict with Georgia, saying Russia’s demand for Georgia’s full pullout from South Ossetia before agreeing to a ceasefire was “just”.

“The demand for prior withdrawal of the invaders is just, and our government supports it,” Cuban President Raul Castro said in a written statement.

Mr Castro said Russian troops had been deployed in South Ossetia legally as a peacekeeping force.

“Therefore, it is false to assert that Georgia is now defending its national sovereignty,” he said.

Russia sent its tanks and troops to pro-Moscow South Ossetia on Friday in response to pro-Western Georgia’s military offensive to take back the province, which broke away in the early 1990s after a separatist war.

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