By ELLEN BARRY and C.J.
CHIVERS
MOSCOW — President
Dmitri A. Medvedev of
Russia said Thursday that Russia would act as an
international guarantor of the two pro-Russian enclaves at
the center of the crisis with
Georgia, and Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov said that
Georgia could “forget about” territorial integrity because
of the war.
The comments did not stake
out a new position, but together, they offered a sharp
retort to President Bush’s insistence a day earlier that
“the sovereign and territorial integrity of Georgia be
respected.”
The Russian rebuke came as
Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice headed to the region to work for a
settlement and to show support for the Georgian president,
Mikheil Saakashvili.
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