The Guardian, Tuesday August 19 2008
Washington is pressing its European allies to deliver initial sanctions against Russia by deciding today to freeze the six-year-old Nato-Russia council.
Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, arrived in Brussels last night for an emergency meeting of Nato foreign ministers at which the Americans are demanding that the alliance punishes Moscow for its operations in Georgia.
Rice warned that Nato would not allow Moscow to win a strategic victory from its invasion of Georgia, or to reassert the Kremlin's influence in eastern Europe through force. "We have to deny Russian strategic objectives, which are clearly to undermine Georgia's democracy, to use its military capability to damage ... and to weaken the Georgian state," she said.
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