Philip H. Gordon: “We have concerns about the direction Ukraine has been heading on the democracy front.”

Our strong view, like that of pretty much every country in the world, with a very tiny number of exceptions, is to recognize Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

To allow locals... to interfere with freedom of movement... would be a slippery slope that would be dangerous for the whole region.

your leadership on United States policy toward the Balkans has been instrumental in the past couple of decades in moving this region toward peace and democracy.

I think that such an escalation would lead not to the regime's capitulation that we want to see, but rather to a new counter-escalation.