The section of the U. S. Department of State's Country Report on Terrorism 2009 covering Georgia is surprisingly biased, a statement published on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website on Friday said.
"It is enough to say that the report described Georgia as a genuinely model terrorism fighter. At the same time, available information that Tbilisi goes in for double dealing with terrorist groups in the North Caucasus region was ignored," the statement said.
"Russian intelligence services have repeatedly furnished proofs on that score and objective observers have taken note long ago."
The Foreign Ministry was incensed by the report's characterization of the situation on the borders between Russia and the former Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Moscow recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia two years ago and has since been the guarantor of their security, deploying thousands of troops and border guards to the tiny countries, which Georgia considers part of its sovereign territory.
"The lack of [Georgian] control allowed for unrestricted and unidentified flow of people, goods, and other potentially dangerous items from Russia into Abkhazia and South Ossetia," the U.S. report read.
"If such 'evaluations,' which, by the way, were not supported with facts, contain concealed attempts to accuse Russia of 'exporting terrorism,' then we are faced with the politicizing of the problem [by the United States]," the Russian Foreign Ministry statement said.
"The unwillingness to accept the new geopolitical realities in the Caucasus region has hindered the authors of the report from realizing the absurdity of the formulation of the issue of 'Georgian control' in the borders between Russia and other sovereign states - Abkhazia and South Ossetia," the statement said.
"There is no and there cannot be any such control," it added.
The Foreign Ministry completely disagreed with the word "militarization," used by the State Department to describe the presence of Russian border guards controlling borders between Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Georgia.
"Thanks to our border guards, the situation on the borders between these two states and Georgia has been substantially stabilized and on the whole remained quiet," the statement said.
MOSCOW, August 13 (RIA Novosti)
