Russia Will Not Speak To Washington’s Man In Georgia, President Mikhail Saakashvili, Wants His Resignation
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said earlier Tuesday that Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili should leave office and that Georgian troops should stay out of South Ossetia permanently.
Moscow will not talk to Saakashvili, Lavrov said; the best thing for Saakashvili to do “would be to step down.†But he said Moscow has not made Saakashvili’s departure a condition for ending hostilities.


