Nino Kalandadze comments about Condoleezza Rice’s memoirs

International documents clearly describe the picture before the August 2008 war and explain that Georgia played an insignificant role in the development of events , Deputy Foreign Minister Nino Kalandadze said while commenting about former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s memoirs.

According to Nino Kalandadze, there are legal documents saying the war was not launched by Georgia.

“The conclusions prove that Georgia was not only uninterested in launching the war, even possible provocations cannot be discussed. Furthermore, it is very difficult for Georgia to provoke such a huge country as Russia,” said Nino Kalandadze.

She said “all legal and analytical documents say Russia was preparing for a war with Georgia for a long time.”

“Even Ms. Rice memoirs say that this war was planned long before by the Kremlin and it was carried out by the Kremlin ", said the Deputy FM.

Condoleezza Rice’s memoires seriously boomed the world media. More precisely, Journalist Joshua Kucera published an article based on the memoires of the former State Secretary where he wrote that in August of 2008 Mikheil Saakashvili let Russia to be provoked. Rice responded to the article and clarified that she has never blamed Georgian people in launching the war and Vladimer Putin is guilty in escalation of the military operations.

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