Grigol Vashadze “Not Interested” in what Clapper Is Saying
March 1, 2011
Responding to a journalist’s question about criticism of Tbilisi’s efforts towards Russia’s North Caucasus republics by some analysts, as well as by U.S. intelligence chief, James Clapper, Georgia’s Foreign Minister, Grigol Vashadze, said he was “absolutely not interested” in what Clapper was saying.
Vashadze, however, immediately added that he had not seen the U.S. intelligence chief’s full testimony on worldwide threat assessment and would not comment on Clapper's remarks.
“I am absolutely not interested in what Clapper is saying; absolutely not. I don’t know in what context he said it. To say the truth I’ve seen this quote of him taken from his testimony… I will consider in what context it has been said after I see [Clapper’s] full speech. I do not like when journalists give me someone’s quote cut out from the context; so I won’t start talking about Clapper; it’s his business what he has said,” Vashadze said in an interview with RFE/RL Georgian service on February 24 during the visit to the Czech Republic..
The U.S. intelligence chief said in the annual worldwide threat assessment hearing at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on February 16: “Moscow's continued military presence in and political-economic ties to Georgia's separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, combined with Georgia's dissatisfaction with the status quo, account for some of the tensions. Georgia's public efforts to engage with various ethnic groups in the Russian North Caucasus have also contributed to these tensions.
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