EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Lithuanian foreign minister Vyguadas Usackas has said the EU made a mistake in setting up the enquiry into the Georgia war, amid Russian claims that the investigation has proved it right. "If I had been in the [EU] Council at the time, I would not have supported this idea," Mr Usackas said in a phone interview with EUobserver on Wednesday (30 September). A statue of the early Georgian king, Vakhtang I, in Tbilisi. Mr Usackas' trip is designed to show "solidarity" "The wounds are too sensitive to open. I don't think it's useful from a pragmatic point of view, just one year after the conflict, to engage in a not very helpful debate about who should be blamed." The minister made the remarks on the eve of a trip to Tbilisi for meetings with President Mikheil Saakashvili and opposition figures, designed "to show solidarity with the Georgian people."
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - Lithuanian foreign minister Vyguadas Usackas has said the EU made a mistake in setting up the enquiry into the Georgia war, amid Russian claims that the investigation has proved it right.
"If I had been in the [EU] Council at the time, I would not have supported this idea," Mr Usackas said in a phone interview with EUobserver on Wednesday (30 September).
A statue of the early Georgian king, Vakhtang I, in Tbilisi. Mr Usackas' trip is designed to show "solidarity"
"The wounds are too sensitive to open. I don't think it's useful from a pragmatic point of view, just one year after the conflict, to engage in a not very helpful debate about who should be blamed."
The minister made the remarks on the eve of a trip to Tbilisi for meetings with President Mikheil Saakashvili and opposition figures, designed "to show solidarity with the Georgian people."
