Rice, French President Sarkozy Remarks on Situation in Georgia

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Office of the Spokesman Remarks Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice And French President Nicolas Sarkozy Le Fort de Bregancon, France SECRETARY RICE: I want to thank you, Mr. President, for inviting me to this very beautiful place and for making room in your schedule on very short notice. I want very much to thank France, as the EU presidency, for the very fruitful mediation that it has undertaken to try and resolve the crisis in Georgia. It is very good that the United States and the European Union, through France, can work so closely together when these crises arise. I will repeat what I said yesterday, which is it is time for this crisis to be over. The Russian President has said that their military operations have halted. We would hope that he would be true to his word and that those operations... [read full story]