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Welcome to the latest global news recorded at 0400 BST on Friday, the 22nd of August. I'm Pascale Harter with the selection of highlights from across BBC World Service news today.
Coming up, Russia stops cooperating with NATO as the crisis over Georgia deepens. Choose between supporting Georgia and cooperating with Russia, NATO is told. NATO wants to talk.
The relationship between NATO and Russia have been changed by what has happened in Georgia, there is no question about that, but we need to sit down and talk.
And difficult memories in South Korea as old wounds are uncovered.
My heart really breaks when I think that all this killing took place without any judicial process and by our own side.
Plus, after a challenging week for Pakistan, its politicians grapple with restoring the country’s judges to office. And the pressures of warfare, do we have anything to learn from the warriors of ancient Greece. That‘s all on the global news podcast.
Russia has told NATO that it’s suspending all military cooperation, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow wasn’t shutting the door to cooperation forever, but that NATO had to decide what was more important to it, supporting Georgia or developing a partnership with Russia.
We are not going to shut any doors, but NATO, as they have said, they are holding the door open to Russia though at any second they may shut it. Here I repeat, it all depends not on us, but on those who make the decisions on what the priorities are for the leaders of NATO in foreign policy and strategic thinking. If they prefer to support the bankrupt Saakashvili regime rather than develop a partnership with Russia, that would not be our fault.
But NATO and the West don't seem keen on rapprochement until the situation in Georgia is resolved. The British Defense Secretary Des Brown.
The relationship between NATO and Russia have been changed by what has happened in Georgia. There is no question about that. But we need to sit down and talk. You know, they need to implement the agreement that they have reached, remove the troops from Georgia, and then we can, of course, talk, get ourselves back into, the sort of developing good relationships we had，including military cooperation with the Russians. We can get back to that.
The West might be distancing itself from Russia, but it hasn’t been getting close enough to Georgia, that's according to President Mikhail Saakashvili who has just criticized NATO for not promising membership of the alliance earlier this year.
Before Bucharest, they denied us MAP (Membership Action Plan), I told the Western media, outright, that it would send strong [a] signal to Russia, to do, to do next a few things, you know in these conflicts that we are not genuine home-grown separatists in first place. There were Russian-run enclaves under Russian administration fully controlled by Moscow and by their security services. What NATO said in Bucharest was look, we will not give Georgia MAP now, we might come back and give it MAP in December. However, meanwhile, the main problem [problems] Georgia has are the conflicts, and the conflicts will be the main impediment for a NATO membership now. Didn’t it send a very powerful signal to the Russians that it was time to act?
But hard to justify is Mr. Saakashvili’s criticism. Professor Andrew Bennett is from the International Relations Department at Georgetown University in Washington.
Like many of Saakashvili’s recent statements, it’s more designed for domestic consumption in Georgia than something that we should take seriously as criticism of the West. It's hard for me to image that had we extended the plan for NATO membership that would have changed the events of last few weeks. Image that Georgia had already been a NATO member, then either NATO would have to respond to its obligation that are under Article Five, and send a military response to Georgia which would not have served the West's interests, or would it have been revealed as bluffing? So it’s, I think, fortunate from the western point of view that Georgia was not already a member of NATO. But if you look at it, we need cooperation with Russia on against terrorism, we need cooperation against nuclear proliferation, particular in the case of Iran, they need us both economically and in terms of their own regional security. And so I think, after a few weeks, or perhaps months of this kind of posturing, I expect relations would get back to pretty much where they were, which is we have some common interests, we have some interests at odds.
Professor Andrew Bennett.(Www.hxen.net)
Now, for a brutal and bloody chapter of the Korean War that has gone unreported for more than half a century. Grave by mass grave, a team of investigators is uncovering evidence of a slaughter carried out not by the invading enemy from the North, but by the American-backed forces in the South. And it's claimed that the US commander was well aware that the Communist sympathizers would be rounded up and shot. From Seoul, here is our correspondent John Subworth.
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Thank you for downloading from the BBC. For details of our complete range of podcasts and our terms of use, go to bbcworldservice.com/podcasts.
Welcome to the latest global news recorded at 0400 BST on Friday, the 22nd of August. I'm Pascale Harter with the selection of highlights from across BBC World Service news today.
Coming up, Russia stops cooperating with NATO as the crisis over Georgia deepens. Choose between supporting Georgia and cooperating with Russia, NATO is told. NATO wants to talk.
The relationship between NATO and Russia have been changed by what has happened in Georgia, there is no question about that, but we need to sit down and talk.
And difficult memories in South Korea as old wounds are uncovered.
My heart really breaks when I think that all this killing took place without any judicial process and by our own side.
Plus, after a challenging week for Pakistan, its politicians grapple with restoring the country’s judges to office. And the pressures of warfare, do we have anything to learn from the warriors of ancient Greece. That‘s all on the global news podcast.
Russia has told NATO that it’s suspending all military cooperation, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow wasn’t shutting the door to cooperation forever, but that NATO had to decide what was more important to it, supporting Georgia or developing a partnership with Russia.
We are not going to shut any doors, but NATO, as they have said, they are holding the door open to Russia though at any second they may shut it. Here I repeat, it all depends not on us, but on those who make the decisions on what the priorities are for the leaders of NATO in foreign policy and strategic thinking. If they prefer to support the bankrupt Saakashvili regime rather than develop a partnership with Russia, that would not be our fault.
But NATO and the West don't seem keen on rapprochement until the situation in Georgia is resolved. The British Defense Secretary Des Brown.
The relationship between NATO and Russia have been changed by what has happened in Georgia. There is no question about that. But we need to sit down and talk. You know, they need to implement the agreement that they have reached, remove the troops from Georgia, and then we can, of course, talk, get ourselves back into, the sort of developing good relationships we had，including military cooperation with the Russians. We can get back to that.
The West might be distancing itself from Russia, but it hasn’t been getting close enough to Georgia, that's according to President Mikhail Saakashvili who has just criticized NATO for not promising membership of the alliance earlier this year.
Before Bucharest, they denied us MAP (Membership Action Plan), I told the Western media, outright, that it would send strong [a] signal to Russia, to do, to do next a few things, you know in these conflicts that we are not genuine home-grown separatists in first place. There were Russian-run enclaves under Russian administration fully controlled by Moscow and by their security services. What NATO said in Bucharest was look, we will not give Georgia MAP now, we might come back and give it MAP in December. However, meanwhile, the main problem [problems] Georgia has are the conflicts, and the conflicts will be the main impediment for a NATO membership now. Didn’t it send a very powerful signal to the Russians that it was time to act?
But hard to justify is Mr. Saakashvili’s criticism. Professor Andrew Bennett is from the International Relations Department at Georgetown University in Washington.
Like many of Saakashvili’s recent statements, it’s more designed for domestic consumption in Georgia than something that we should take seriously as criticism of the West. It's hard for me to image that had we extended the plan for NATO membership that would have changed the events of last few weeks. Image that Georgia had already been a NATO member, then either NATO would have to respond to its obligation that are under Article Five, and send a military response to Georgia which would not have served the West's interests, or would it have been revealed as bluffing? So it’s, I think, fortunate from the western point of view that Georgia was not already a member of NATO. But if you look at it, we need cooperation with Russia on against terrorism, we need cooperation against nuclear proliferation, particular in the case of Iran, they need us both economically and in terms of their own regional security. And so I think, after a few weeks, or perhaps months of this kind of posturing, I expect relations would get back to pretty much where they were, which is we have some common interests, we have some interests at odds.
Professor Andrew Bennett.(Www.hxen.net)
Now, for a brutal and bloody chapter of the Korean War that has gone unreported for more than half a century. Grave by mass grave, a team of investigators is uncovering evidence of a slaughter carried out not by the invading enemy from the North, but by the American-backed forces in the South. And it's claimed that the US commander was well aware that the Communist sympathizers would be rounded up and shot. From Seoul, here is our correspondent John Subworth.
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