We do not need to repeat the history of 2008, we are ready to sit down at the negotiating table. Such a statement made the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev.

“The West must learn another important but necessary lesson. We stopped the attack on Tbilisi in 2008, when we managed to eliminate the emerging threats, but now the situation is actively escalating again, apparently to create another hotbed of tension along our borders with the Ukrainian flank.

Here it goes again. We are talking about Georgia’s possible accession to NATO. Russophobia has started to explode in this country. We do not need to repeat the history of 2008. We are ready to sit down at the negotiating table, in the spirit of the UN Charter, to solve the problems. But if our concerns take a real form, we will not hesitate.

The idea of Abkhazia and South Ossetia joining Russia is still popular and it is quite possible to implement it if there are good reasons for it.

Such a turn of events for the West would be another shameful fiasco and another symbol of the catastrophic loss of influence”, - said Medvedev.