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Hammarberg: Investigation will not ask who started '08 war

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Thomas Hammarberg, the EU’s special representative to Georgia. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Thomas Hammarberg, the EU’s Special Representative in Georgia, says both sides of in the Russia-Georgia war in August 2008 made mistakes and it is good if it will be investigated.

Finishing off a visit, Hammarberg said at a press conference Sunday

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Saakashvili refuses to cooperate with 2008 war inquest

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Georgia’s president Mikheil Saakashvili and Poland’s president Bronisław Komorowski in Warsaw Friday. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili says he doesn’t plan to cooperate with a new investigation of the Russia-Georgia war in August, 2008.

“I, as president, distance myself completely from the statement by the prime minister that it was a fault

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Georgia to study mistakes made in 2008 war

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The evaluation will not touch on the question of whether Russia started the war, which Defense Minister Irakli Alasania says is proven by the facts. (Info9.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–In the next few days, Georgia will begin an evaluation of its own military actions during the war with Russia in August, 2008.

Georgian military experts who have studied the August war have for a long time said it is necessary to have an official

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