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Friday, August 15, 2008

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  • President Bush makes a statement about conditions in Russia and Georgia, Friday, Aug. 15, 2008, outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, prior to departing for his Texas ranch for vacation. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds)
  • Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel walk to a joint press conference in the Russian Black Sea resort city of Sochi, Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Merkel arrived in Russia Friday on a one-day working visit. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)
  • U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left, and Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili shake hands in Tbilisi, on Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Rice arrived in Georgia on Friday for talks with President Saakashvili on formalising a French-negotiated ceasefire to the South Ossetian conflict. (AP Photo/Irakli Gedenidze, pool)

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By Jon Ward

UPDATED:

A senior Russian military official on Friday threatened Poland for agreeing to a treaty with the U.S., as President Bush called on the Kremlin to stop "bullying" the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Georgia's capital of Tsibili, persuaded Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to sign a treaty with Russia and then called on Russia to remove all of its military forces from the small country "immediately."

"With the signing of this accord, all Russian troops, and any paramilitary and irregular troops that entered with them must leave immediately," she said.

Meanwhile, Russian Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn said Poland's decision on Thursday to host a U.S.-backed missile defense system had made the former communist bloc country a "target" for Russian military action.

"By hosting these, Poland is making itself a target. This is 100 percent," said Gen. Nogovitsyn, according to wire service reports. "It becomes a target for attack. Such targets are destroyed as a first priority."

At the same time, the United States and Russian presidents tried to talk themselves back from the brink of a new Cold War or armed conflict, but continued to disagree about the Kremlin's actions in Georgia.

President Bush, in a statement from the White House, tried to find a proper balance between standing up for Georgia and keeping already tense relations with Russia from falling apart completely.

Mr. Bush vowed not to "cast aside" Georgia, and said Ms. Rice was in Tblisi "expressing America's wholehearted support for Georgia's democracy."

But he also said that supporting the tiny country does not necessarily have to mean losing a partnership with Russia, with whom the U.S. has sought to work on issues such as countering Iran's nuclear ambitions and building a missile defense system in Europe.

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