The rhetoric over the crisis in Georgia is rising on both sides of the Atlantic.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired on CNN that he suspected the United States provoked the conflict between Russia and Georgia earlier this month for domestic political reasons. Washington immediately dismissed the charges with a White House spokeswoman saying the comments did not sound "rational". In Paris, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said that the European Union was now considering imposing sanctions on Russia over the Georgian crisis. Kouchner said sanctions were being considered ahead of next week's emergency EU summit. This reverses a statement earlier in the week from the French foreign minister, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency.
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