Russia sees Georgian links to Beslan

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Russia sees Georgian links to Beslan
Foreign minister calls for Tbilisi to increase cooperation in counter- terrorism
By Anna Arzanova

Admitting that there was no concrete proof to the effect, Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov nonetheless says it is logical to connect the recent events in South Ossetia and the Beslan hostage crisis.

In separate interviews with the radio state Voice of Russia and the Russian paper Vremya Novostei fingered Georgia for precipitating the deterioration in Georgian- Russian relations.

His sternest words for Georgia came in the interview with the Voice of Russia.

"There are no specific facts that would suggest that these events are linked and were planned in the same center. But the results of the crisis, created by the Georgian authorities in South Ossetia and hostage taking in North Ossetia - previously one of the calmest republics in the region - bring us to think, and the politicians are obliged not to exclude this thought, that this did not happen by chance," he said as quoted by Civil.ge.

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