US Deputy Secretary of State William Burns has said that Russia and the United States had serious differences about the issue of Georgia. This is how the US senior official responded to the statement made earlier by the Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin about Georgia. Putin slamed the United States government for supplying Georgia with weapons and plans to station anti-missile defense systems in Europe despite the restart of relations with Russia.
`It is not the secret that the United States and Russia have a serious disagreement over the status of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but at the same time I think we share an interest in transparency and in stability and in avoiding a drift toward armed conflict again. With regard to missile defense, as I said before, I think, we do have the opportunity before us to build cooperation and that‘s something we are determined to try to do,` Burns said in an interview with one of the Russian news agencies.
