WASHINGTON – A senior U.S. State Department official says Russia’s actions over the past decade have shown that Moscow’s willingness to violate the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other nations is “real” and not “simply rhetorical.”
On November 16, Brian Hook, the State Department’s director of policy planning, told the Transatlantic Forum on Russia of the Center for Strategic and International Studies that Moscow’s actions in the war with Georgia in 2008 and more recently in Ukraine are “violations of the U.N. Charter and of multiple articles of the Helsinki Final Act.”