Sergei Lavrov is the kind of foreign minister a country needs. As the Telegraph reports, 'Mr Lavrov has been highly critical of the way that the Russian move into Georgia has been portrayed by the West. He has criticised what he described as a "truly David and Goliath interpretation" of the conflict in which "the plucky republic of Georgia, with just a few million citizens, was attacked by its giant eastern neighbour".
On any balanced reading, the Georgian conflict was a piece of unauthorised silly behaviour by a politically incompetent leader covered up for later by a very cross US administration.
But it is asking Miliband who he is and then telling him in terms that makes Mr Lavrov positively endearing.
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Yes indeed. Found myself tittering gently whilst reading this
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3pwvoe
HG - I agree; all that Douglas Hurd crap about "punching above our weight" etc...
Millipede really is a joke. The FCO needs somebody of intelligence, experience and with gravitas and personality to represent the UK. Regrettably I can see nobody with these attributes in the current NuLab ranks.
The quicker our politicians and civil servants realise that the British Empire is dead and get policy back to being what the UK really is, ie a small island off the coast of Europe, the better for all concerned. And while they are at it, they can stop giving all our money away to third world dictators to salt away in Swiss bank accounts. Long observation of so-called development projects in Africa merely confirms my view that 90%+ of this money is wasted. (In the mid 1980s, it was reckoned by those who know about these things that Kenneth Kaunda had over $100million stashed away). There are far better things to do with it at home and it is not the business of the British taxpayer to be taking on responsibilities of other Governments, particularly wealthy ones like India.
Rant over!
Exquisite.
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