Medvedev says Saakashvili is ‘no longer’ Georgia president- Matt Brown- 9/5/08

On Tuesday September 2nd, 2008 Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, stated that he no longer recognized his counterpart, Mikheil Saakashvili, as the President of Georgia calling him a “political corpse.” Medvedev said that, to him and Russia, the current Georgian regime has collapsed, and Mikheil Saakashvili no longer exists in his eyes. Medvedev recognized Russia’s disownment of the Georgian President in response to questions about Russia’s participation in international talks at the Caucus in Rome in which Saakashvili is going to participate. Medvedev also stated that Russia “would like the international community to remember who began the aggression and who is responsible for people’s deaths.” Meanwhile, Italian Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, a member of Italy’s Socialist party and key member of Italy’s Forza Italia, is going to both Russia and Georgia with an aim to ease hostilities and cultivate peaceful relations between the two nations. Medvedev also stated that he does not fear Russia’s expulsion from the Group of Eight industrialized nations as suggested by some Western nations.

I hate to be a worry worm, but Medvedev is a very strong willed and strong-minded leader, similar to a certain leader we all know. I feel that Medvedev, similarly to President Bush, holds his own country and region paramount, and is focusing only on those interests. I know that it is a president’s main purpose to put his country’s interests first, but the world is a barrel of gunpowder and aggressive conflict brings the flame closer and closer to the barrel. The world stage must peel off the red tape and meet intimately to promote the priority of global importance rather than the priorities of individual nations. This meeting must be inclusive rather than exclusive, bringing the leaders of nations from all walks of life and circumstances together because, as we all know, every individual action of a nation has a vast global impact. The world needs to accept the fact that our development as nations has lead us to this climax of communication, and we have the technology with which we never need to feel each other’s breathe. I feel that long distance communication obstructs real humanism. We all need to be able to read faces in an intimate setting. We need to remove masks and forsake our insecurities if we are going to be able to contain this growing epidemic of conflict. All countries have enemies and hold grudges, but if we are going to avoid global crisis like the world has never seen before, we must become intimate; as uncomfortable as that sounds.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Frattini