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HARDtalk: Eka Tkeshelashvili

01/12/2008

Eka Tkeshelashvili

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Eka Tkeshelashvili, Georgia's foreign minister, talks to Stephen Sackur.

Eka Tkeshelashvili, Georgia's foreign minister, talks to Stephen Sackur. Is it time for Tbilisi to acknowledge that the summer war with Russia was a strategic mistake?

Stephen Sackur talks to newsmakers and personalities from across the globe. 

NATO foreign ministers are about to start two days of meetings in Brussels and one of the items on the agenda is whether to push forward Georgia's request to join the alliance. Almost four months after the brief but fierce conflict with Russia over South Ossetia, Georgia is looking for strong backing from NATO that its ambitions to join are still on track. 

Eka Tkeshelashvili, Georgia's foreign minister, talks to Stephen Sackur. Is it time for Tbilisi to acknowledge that the summer war with Russia was a strategic mistake from which it may take years to recover?

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