Russia’s Lavrov Links South Ossetia to Beslan

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview to the radio “Voice of Russia” that the hostage drama in Beslan and the crisis in South Ossetia can be linked.

“There are no specific facts that would suggest that these events are linked and were planned in the same center” Lavrov stated.

“But the results of the crisis, created by the Georgian authorities in South Ossetia and hostage taking in North Ossetia – previously one of the calmest republics in the region – bring us to think, and the politicians are obliged not to exclude this thought, that this did not happen by chance.”