'US to Replenish Georgia's Weapons caches'

The US is to help Georgia strengthen its military power and Vice President Dick Cheney's visit there has been planned with this aim in view.

Cheney weighed the views of "the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and other officials about how the US and its allies could help strengthen economic and military capabilities," the Wall Street Journal said. The vice president, currently on a tour of the region, was profuse in his expressing support for Tbilisi and condemning Russia's involvement in the recent conflict in the region. "Georgia will be in our alliance," he said.

Cheney and Saakashvili meet conveyors of US 'aid' to TbilisiHe added that 'the free world' had to return Georgia's contributions to US' operations in Afghanistan. The New York Times also wrote that "an initial step" in line with the US' military assistance to Georgia “could be to increase the number of US military trainers."

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