Russia blocks U.S. move on missile drop
Russia blocked a U.S. attempt to have the U.N. Security Council issue a statement on an incident last week involving an aircraft that dropped a missile near a Georgian village.
Georgia has said it has “incontrovertible evidence” that Russian jets launched a missile near the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Russia’s air force flatly denies that its planes crossed into Georgia.
On Wednesday, a group of eight international military experts determined that the plane, which flew over Georgian territory Aug. 6, had come from Russian airspace and released the missile.
Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vitaly I. Churkin said the council should not take a stand because a high-level Russian military delegation had just arrived in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, for talks with Georgian experts on the incident.
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