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Gazeta.ru/Kommersant February 1. 2010 Saakashvili ready to turn Georgia into an American bridgehead Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has proposed that NATO use the Black Sea ports of Poti and Batumi and also Georgia's airfields to deliver military cargo to Afghanistan. Analysts are unsure the United States will be interested in the proposal. Currently, the United States sends transit military cargo to its troops in Afghanistan from the Baltic Sea across Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. A shorter but much more dangerous route runs across Pakistan. Since the U.S. plans to double the number of troops in Afghanistan, the Pentagon and its NATO allies need reliable transit routes. They are considering a route across the Caspian Sea, with cargo delivered via Georgia to Azerbaijan, across the Caspian Sea to Aktau in Kazakhstan, and on to Afghanistan across Uzbekistan. However, this route has a major drawback. "Safety is crucial for delivering military cargo across a country," military analyst Georgy Tavdgiridze told the business daily Kommersant. "However, Russia and its armed forces have actually controlled Georgia's sea and air space since the August [2008] war." Saakashvili has long been trying to turn Georgia into a part of the western community. His ultimate goal is to ensure its accession to NATO and the European Union, but it was jeopardized by the outcome of the war with Russia over South Ossetia in August 2008, when Russian troops were only several kilometers from Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. .... =========================== Stop NATO http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stopnato Blog site: http://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/ To subscribe, send an e-mail to: rwroz...@yahoo.com or stopnato-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Daily digest option available. ============================== --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: arch...@mail-archive.com EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bNM5nn.YXJjaGl2 Or send an email to: antinato-unsubscr...@topica.com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------
