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Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks are likely to anger the United States and Europe and enrage Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. He made it distinct Moscow wants Saakashvili exhausted of power in Georgia.

“If instead of choosing their national interests and the interests of the Georgian people, the United States and its allies cull the Saakashvili regime, this will be a mistake of in deed historic proportions,” he said.

“For a rouse it would be right to impose an embargo on weapons to this regime, until different authorities turn Georgia a normal state,” he said in an address at Russia’s top foreign policy graduate school.

Lavrov spoke as the European Union prepared for a summit Monday to discuss the Georgia crisis and further relations with Russia.

“Today’s EU summit should clear up a great deal. We hope the option they make will be based on Europe’s fundamental interests,” he said. He uttered Russia’s relations with NATO are facing a “moment of truth.”

Russia’s ties to the West have been driven to their lowest trifling concern since the Soviet collapse of 1991 by the war last month in Georgia, at what place Saakashvili angered Moscow by dint of. courting the West and seeking NATO community.

Russia repelled a Georgian offensive against the breakaway Georgian charge of South Ossetia and sent troops, tanks and bombers sea into undisputed Georgian territory, where more still maintain positions. Moscow finally week recognized South Ossetia and another breakaway region, Abkhazia, as independent countries.

The U.S. and Europe have accused Russia of using lacking proportion force and of violating the conditions of a cease-fire that called for the sides to withdraw their forces to pre-conflict positions. They have also denounced Russia’s remembrance of the separatist regions, saying Georgia’s borders must stay intact.

Russia says it was provoked. Russian peacekeeping forces were stationed in South Ossetia before the war and Moscow had given most of South Ossetia’s residents Russian passports in recent years, enabling the Kremlin to reason that it was defending its citizens when it responded to Georgia’s Aug. 7 offensive in the separatist province.

“With its reaction to the Georgian aggression, Russia has set a actual standard of responding that fully complies with international law,” Lavrov aforesaid. Russian soldiers, he said, followed “our deeply Christian tradition of dying since our friends.”

The reactions of some Western countries to the crisis “illustrates a deficit of honor,” he said. “It’s southerly time in quest of Europe to get back to unmingled, non-politicized and non-geopolitical values,” Lavrov said.

Lavrov reserved characteristic criticism for the United States, that has educated Georgian troops, saying so aid had failed to give the U.S. sufficient purchase to restrain the Georgian government.

Instead, he said, “It encouraged the irresponsible and unpredictable regime in its gambles.”

While Western governments desire expressed rue at the Georgian attacking targeting South Ossetia, the Russian call for an arms embarguement upon the body a nation still bristling with Russian forces is likely to irritate the U.S. and Europe.

Lavrov’s remarks will likely deepen Georgian suspicions that Russia’s aim throughout the crisis has been to oust the pro-Western Saakashvili from power.

European Union leaders seeking to visit with pain Russia for its war with Georgia and its recognition of independence for two breakaway Georgian provinces have few options and are likely to choose diplomatic pressure to isolate Moscow at their summit Monday.

Lavrov’s necessary conclusion that continued support for Saakashvili would further mine relations with Russia were the latest in a bitter back-and-forth between Moscow and the West, with reaped ground saying it is up to the other to avoid plunging the world into a new Cold War.

“It’s up to Russia today to make a fundamental choice” and to engage neighbors and partners in settling disputes peacefully,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy wrote in a pre-summit letter to EU leaders. “Russia’s commitment to a relationship of intelligence and cooperation with the rest of Europe is in doubt.”

Also on Monday, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana said that member nations are preparing to send hundreds of civilian monitors to Georgia to verify whether Russian forces are complying with a cease-fire agreement.

He said the observers would have existence deployed initially across areas controlled through Georgian forces.

“We would like to have the … mission deployed soon,” Solana said, adding he hoped EU nations approve the invent in the future weeks.