Georgia Asks Biden For Weapons, Us Won’t Commit (ap)

Visiting U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, left, listens to Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili, right, speaking during a reception in presidential residence in the capital Tbilisi, Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Biden arrived in Georgia Wednesday from Ukraine on a mission to reassure both former Soviet nations that the United States will not abandon them as it seeks to improve badly strained ties with Russia. (AP Photo/Irakly Gedenidze, Presidential Press Service, Pool)AP – Georgia’s president asked U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday for advanced U.S. weaponry, military aid and unarmed observers to monitor a cease-fire along the boundaries of two Moscow-backed breakaway regions, a senior U.S. official said.

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