(DUSHANBE) - An EU threat to impose sanctions on Russia is only an emotional response by the West to negative developments in its "little pet" Georgia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said here Thursday.

The EU sanctions warning, articulated by French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, was made "just because they're upset that the 'little pet' of certain Western capitals didn't fulfill their expectations," Lavrov told reporters.

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