BBC: Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said further Western support for Georgia's present leadership would be a mistake of historic magnitude.
Mr Lavrov called for an embargo on arms supplies to Georgia until a different government was in place there.
He was speaking ahead of an emergency EU summit on the Georgian crisis.
The UK has called on the European Union to suspend talks over a new partnership pact with Russia, to punish the country for its actions in Georgia.
"In light of Russia's actions we should suspend negotiations on a successor to the partnership and co-operation agreement," a spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown told reporters in London.
The EU summit is expected to condemn Moscow's recognition of independence for Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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