MOSCOW. May 12 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia will take measures in response to any threat posed to its military bases in Georgia.
"If any steps are taken that threaten the bases (in Georgia - Interfax) - I mean human lives, security guarantees, to say nothing of the possibility of the weaponry there getting into foreign hands - I assure you, we won't remain idle," he said in the State Duma on Thursday.
Asked about Georgian parliament speaker Nino Burjanadze's announcement that, after May 15, the Georgian parliament may outlaw the bases, Lavrov said: "We have expressed our attitude to this initiative many times."
"Burjanadze and Saakashvili (Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili - Interfax) earlier dissociated themselves from it saying it was an initiative of deputies, but now Burjanadze has come up with a different statement," he said.
"We won't be blackmailed and yield to internal political pressure in Georgia," Lavrov said.
"Tbilisi has all our constructive proposals, talks continue and will end when they end," he said.