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LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) -- Slovenia's foreign minister says the European Union will send a delegation to Georgia in the upcoming days to try to prevent an escalation in tensions in the former Soviet state's relations with Russia.
Protesters demonstrated outside the Russian embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia, on May 7.
Dimitrij Rupel will lead the delegation. He told reporters on Friday that the EU won't take sides in the dispute.
He says the bloc wants to assess the situation and work on finding a peaceful solution to the current conflict there.
Slovenia currently holds the rotating EU presidency.
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said Thursday that the threat of war with Russia was high as Russia has moved to increase ties with Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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