I said this last week, that what we are seeing is the beginning of a new cold war…

Source: FT.com

David Miliband, the British foreign secretary, led a chorus of support for Ukraine on Wednesday as western fears rose of possible Russian attempts to build on its victory in Georgia by threatening other neighbouring states.

Speaking during a visit to Kiev, he called on the European Union and Nato to prepare for “hard-headed engagement” with Moscow following its military action in Georgia. “The Russian president says he’s not afraid of a new cold war. We don’t want one. He has a big responsibility not to start one,” he said.

Mr Miliband’s remarks coincided with warnings from Bernard Kouchner, French foreign minister, Olli Rehn, EU enlargement commissioner, and Carl Bildt, Swedish foreign minister.

They were all speaking after Moscow’s recognition on Tuesday of the independence of the breakaway Georgian territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the first effort to redraw international borders in the former Soviet Union since its 1991 collapse.

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