CIAO DATE: 07/2009
June 2009
"Georgia-Russia: Still Insecure and Dangerous", the latest policy briefing from the International Crisis Group, examines the situation ten months after the August 2008 war and finds deep cause for concern. Moscow's 15 June Security Council veto of an extension of the sixteen-year-old UN observer mission's mandate in Georgia and Abkhazia and its apparent intention to require the removal of the mission of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) by 30 June are blows to regional security that will fuel tensions.
Resource link: Georgia-Russia: Still Insecure and Dangerous [PDF] - 862K