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Thanks for the correction ODR.
Be great if we could get Trump onboard lol. Yeee haaaa.
posted on Brian Babin Twitter
Hope you spoke with @realDonaldTrump about Georgia trying to steal vast oil and gas from Texas Oil company Frontera Resources after they have spent over $400million in sink costs ? #Trump2020Landslide
Odr,yes I noted that too.
Zen: agree with the sentiment/gist of your post. Just for clarity, this is what Mike Pompeo actually said re the $1bn:
"And as a brand new statement today of our support for sovereignty, prosperity, and energy independence of our European friends, today I want to announce that through the International Development Finance Corporation, and with the support of our United States Congress, we intend to provide up to $1 billion in financing to Central and Eastern European countries of the Three Seas Initiative. Our aim is quite simple: It is to galvanize private sector investment in the energy sector to protect freedom and democracy around the world."
Georgia is not one of the Three Seas Initiative countries.
GLA
Yes....it's becoming obvious, this whole thing is much much bigger than anything we've ever been told about.
It’s certainly encouraging to see all of this support from senior American politicians and the fight is clearly being taken to the Georgian Dream party. It’s still impossible to predict how all this will play out. We all thought we were investing in an O & G play and it turns out that we are caught in a geo-political quagmire in which the interests of UK shareholders are way down the list of priorities. Here’s hoping for a political breakthrough and the appearance of financial muscle from super-majors to bring value to our investment. Pompeo did announce a billion dollar fund for the region the other day - so who knows what is being lined up behind the scenes ?
Important to remember that Pompeo’s comment re the occupation of Georgia relate to the occupation of South Ossetia in 2007(?) and not to the more recent attempts by Putin to gain control via the Georgia Dream party. All still to play for. GLA
Wow !
The Gloves are most certainly off.
Sometimes, you just gotta say it as it is.
But, seriously, we shouldn't need to have these conversations in 2020. Putin is a proper R-sole.
During his speech at the Munich Security Conference, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stressed the Russian occupation of Georgia along with other important issues.
"More than 30 years since the fall of the wall, countries that don’t respect sovereignty still threaten us. Some nations still desire empire. Let’s talk about territorial integrity, or rather, those nations that have contempt for it. Russia has seized Crimea and parts of Eastern Ukraine and Georgia," he stated.
Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani, who participated in the Conference along with Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, Vice Prime Minister Tea Tsulukiani and Defense Minister Irakli Garibashvili, thanked Pompeo for his support on Twitter.
"I value the US contribution to security in the region and to strong relations with its allies like Georgia. Grateful for having Mike Pompeo standing by Georgia to stop Russia’s occupation and disinformation campaign aimed at undermining Georgia's pro-Western integration processes," Zalkaliani tweeted.
The Georgian delegation, led by Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia, held high-level meetings within the framework of the Munich Security Conference 2020, which was held on February 14-16.
By Ana Dumbadze