"Look, these guys are trying to — at every turn, trying to wiggle out of a commitment they made and that their president put his name to," McCormack said Wednesday.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko expressed on Friday Moscow's displeasure with the remark.
"I would like to say that 'these guys' is not language one uses with one's political and other partners," he said. "This kind of language can be used in bars, somewhere in Texas for example, but not in the practice of international contacts."
"Well, you know, get out the fainting couch for them," he said. "They should probably focus less on exactly how I phrase things and maybe focus their energies on getting out of Georgia."
