The international community has pledged $4.5 billion (€3.4 billion) toward the rebuilding of Georgia hit by the short war with Russia over South Ossetia in August, with the European Commission alone putting aside up to €500 million to address Tbillisi's needs between 2008-2010.
"It is a moral imperative to help a neighbour in need," commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said when opening a donor's conference in Brussels (22 October).
He added that it was also in the interest ...
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