“We are working with several of Russia’s neighbors because we know that the Russians want to use the territory of Georgia to fund and secure their war machine,” – the head of the US State Department’s Sanctions Coordination Office, Ambassador James O’Brien, said at a press conference in Tbilisi.
“Therefore, we are working with Russia’s neighbors and Russia’s largest trading partners to prevent this from happening. What we have seen in several of these countries is an attempt to tighten their policies so that Russia is less able to use their territories for military purposes. We see this in the public statements of Turkey, in Kazakhstan, and also in the good, very extensive work by the government agencies of Georgia,” said O’Brien.
