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Cheney: "Russian agression must not go unanswered"
11 Aug 2008 00:48:00 GMT
 Source: Reuters
BEIJING, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney called Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to express U.S. solidarity in the conflict with Russia and told him "Russian aggression must not go unanswered," the vice president's office said on Monday.

"The vice president expressed the United States' solidarity with the Georgian people and their democratically elected government in the face of this threat to Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity," Cheney's office said in a statement.

It said Cheney told Saakashvili that "Russian aggression must not go unanswered, and that its continuation would have serious consequences for its relations with the United States, as well as the broader international community." (Reporting by Matt Spetalnick; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)


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