US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rejected accusations by her Russian counterpart Wednesday that Georgia had become a "special project" of the United States, dpa reported.
" Georgia is a democratic government in the Caucasus that has elected its leaders," Rice said. "To call it a project of anyplace, of anybody, perhaps belies more about the way Russia thinks about its neighbours than the way it thinks about US policy."
Speaking in Moscow earlier Wednesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discussed the close US-Georgian relationship.
"The Georgian leadership is a special project for the United States," Lavrov said.