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Wrangling over Georgian city as Bush accuses Russians of 'bullying'

AFP, Gori
Russia and Georgia wrangled over the blockaded city of Gori on Friday as US President George W. Bush accused Russia of using "bullying" tactics in the conflict.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tbilisi to support the Georgia's pro-West government and called for changes to a ceasefire accord to protect Georgia.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, meanwhile, made a new statement ui support for two regions that have broken from Georgia:as he came undefjfivssure -during talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Three days after a ceasefire was agreed, Georgian authorities negotiated with Russian commanders for the handover of Gori, where Russian armoured vehicles and tanks have remained even though it is outside the breakaway South Ossetia province - the spark for the conflict.
"The Gori police chief is in Gori trying to hold negotiations on the handover of the city," interior ministry spokesman Shota Utiashvili told AFP
No Russian military forces were
visible in the centre of Gori but scores of armoured vehicles were concentrated at a base outside the city, an AFP reporter said. A small number of Russian soldiers and two armoured personnel carriers were spotted in the city centre.
Most of the city's 50,000 inhabitants have fled. About 300-400 people gathered outside the city's cathedral to receive humanitarian food aid that handed outby priests.
The United States and Russia have stepped up their wrangling over Georgia and the US president complained of Moscow’s "bullying" as he called on Russia to hon-oura pledge to withdraw its troops.
.'’Bullying arid intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century," he said, adding that Russia had damaged its credibility with the West by its offensive against Georgia.
"Moscow must honour its commitment to withdraw its invading forces from all Georgian territory," Bush said outside the Oval Office.
Russian troops entered Georgia in response to a Georgian offensive on August 7 to retake South Ossetia, which broke away in the 1990s. Russia strongly supports South Ossetia and the second
breakaway region of Abkhazia and has given Russian passports to most people in the territories.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy brokered a truce and in Tbilisi, Rice said a "formal ceasefire" had to be agreed.
"In order to get to that point there really did have to be important clarifications on a couple of these points (in the ceasefire) in order to make sure that Georgian interests are protected."
Georgia's pro-Western President Mikheil Saakashvili said the Russian army controlled about athirdolGcorguL
"I am not plannifif fo agfe'e ^o any compromises with Putin's regime," he told Russia's Kommersant newspaper in an interview, referring to Russia's powerful prime minister, Vladimir Putin.
German Chancellor Merkel told Medvedev that the Russian military action had been "disproportionate" during talks at the Black Sea resort of Sochi.
Maintaining the territorial integrity of Georgia must be a "basic point" in any plan for restoring peace in the Caucasus, she added at a press conference with Medvedev.