TBILISI. July 19 (Interfax) - The West is not bothered with the Georgian national interest, whenever it uses the country against Russia to get some geopolitical benefits, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said.
"We know that there are powerful political forces in the West interested in preserving and expanding anti-Russian sanctions. Meanwhile, their motives have nothing to do with caring for Georgia," Zakharova said in an interview with Georgia's Rustavi 2 television.
"Georgia has eventually turned into an element of the Western strategy of deterring Russia in the Black Sea and South Caucasus now," she said.
"Not so long ago, one of the officials at the U.S. Department of State said publicly that, quote, the U.S. will be arming Georgia to counteract Russia," she said.
Georgian politicians should think about Georgia's national interest and not engage in "servicing someone else's geopolitical interests", Zakharova said.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said earlier on Wednesday, after the meeting with Georgian Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze in Brussels, that issues the two had discussed at the meeting included NATO-Georgia cooperation and security in the Black Sea region.