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KIEV/TBILISI-Ukraine said on Wednesday it wanted to discuss charging Russia more to lease a Black Sea naval base, a move that could aggravate regional tensions already inflamed by Moscow's conflict with Georgia.As the U.S. Navy shipped in humanitarian supplies to Georgia, Russia said its navy was watching "the build-up of NATO forces in the Black Sea area" and had started taking measures to monitor their activity.Georgia recalled all but two of its diplomats from Moscow in protest after Russia recognized its rebel South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions as independent and President Mikheil Saakashvili urged the West to uphold international law."Russia clearly intended this as a blatant challenge to world order. It's now up to all of us to roll Russian aggression back. If they get away with this, they will carry on...they will also attack other countries in the neighborhood,"Saakashvili told Reuters in an interview. The Group of Seven-Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States-issued a statement to "condemn" Russian recognition of the two rebel regions and to "deplore Russia's excessive use of military force in Georgia."Russia quickly overwhelmed Georgian forces in a brief war over South Ossetia this month, the first time it has sent its forces abroad into combat since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union.Russia's troops and tanks continue to occupy parts of Georgia included in buffer zones it set up around South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and Moscow has ignored Western demands to withdraw from them.Russia says its troops are needed there to protect civilians from Georgian aggression.To read more go to:
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL768040420080827
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