Posted on 01/01/2009 9:48:55 AM PST by re_tail20
TBILISI — Georgia and the United States will on Jan. 4 sign a strategic partnership treaty, the Georgian foreign ministry said on Thursday, in a move that risks again provoking Russian wrath against Tbilisi.
“Georgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Grigol Vashadze and the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will sign a strategic partnership treaty on Jan. 4 in Washington,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Khatuna Iosava said.
The accord, similar to a strategic agreement Washington has recently signed with Ukraine, risks raising tensions with Russia, which earlier this year fought a brief war with Georgia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
Post-war tensions between Russia and Georgia are already running high, a fact underlined Wednesday when Russian President Dmitry Medvedev launched an extraordinary personal attack on his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili.
“We suspected that our Georgian colleague had problems in his brains but we did not realise that it would be as serious as that,” Medvedev said in an end-of-year television interview.
Saakashvili has hailed the U.S.-Georgia treaty as a “historic” move that will allow the two countries’ relations to progress towards a new stage.
“The United States has never before said that Georgia is its strategic partner,” he said on December 22.
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“U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will sign a strategic partnership treaty”
Treaty?? She is? Has this been approved by Congress?
She signs it and then it comes to the Senate for ratification. If the Senate does not ratify, the treaty is without force.
The question is—will Obama support this piece of paper? I think not. What will Obama do if Putin Moves on these lands? I don’t think he will offer much help short of going to the UN. The brave people of Georgia and Ukraine might be better off learning to speak Russian.
Well, if Turkey goes south and becomes even more anti-American, it will become far more difficult to support such a relationship with anything other than diplomacy.
Maybe this is just a time-delayed fart-bomb meant to put emperor obambi on the hotseat early in his reign.
Many of them already do.
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