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Wed 06 Jun 2009Georgian opposition urges West to rebuke Saakashvili
THE LEADERS of Georgia’s opposition have called on western nations to condemn President Mikheil Saakashvili’s handling of a 10-week-long protest against his rule, after police clashed again with anti-government demonstrators intent on forcing him from power.
The fighting in central Tbilisi came as Russia used its veto in the United Nations Security Council to prevent the extension of an observer mission in Abkhazia, a separatist Georgian region which, like South Ossetia, has been recognised by Moscow as an independent state.
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