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RUSSSIA SAYS OSCE PA REPORT ON GEORGIA "UNACCEPTABLE"
PanARMENIAN.Net
July 14, 2012 - 14:09 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The acceptance of a report on Georgia by the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE) demonstrates its reluctance to recognize the new
realities resulting from the increasingly complex situation in the
Caucasus since 2008, preventing the OSCE from furthering peace in
the region, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, July 14,
according to RIA Novosti.
The resolution "uses worn-out propagandistic cliches about 'occupied
Georgian territories,'" the Foreign Ministry said.
"The majority of deputies in the Assembly (Parliamentary Assembly of
the OSCE) once again don't wish to objectively accept the realities
of the situation today in the Caucasus," the Foreign Ministry said
on its website. "Such an approach, unfortunately, deprives the OSCE
of the ability to make a constructive contribution to boosting peace
and stability in the region," the Ministry added.
"The Russian delegation firmly opposed this tendentious document,
declaring it absolutely unacceptable," the Ministry said.
Abkhazia's Foreign Ministry also condemned the OSCE resolution,
saying it did not take into account new realities and was based
on information presented only by the Georgian side. The call to
reintroduce European Union Mission observers in Abkhazia has no legal
basis and contradicts the text of the Medvedev-Sarkozy agreement,
the Abkhazian Foreign Ministry said.
Georgian forces attacked the breakaway region of South Ossetia on
August 8, 2008. Russia sent its forces into the region to protect the
citizens of South Ossetia, many of whom held Russian passports, and
expelled the Georgian forces after a five-day conflict. Russia then
extended formal recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia on August 26, 2008. Georgia then broke off diplomatic relations
with Russia and declared the two regions as occupied territories.
Both regions had been de facto independent since breaking away from
Tbilisi in the early 1990's after Georgia left the USSR in 1991.
The EU refuses to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia and supports the territorial integrity and sovereignty
of Georgia.
PanARMENIAN.Net
July 14, 2012 - 14:09 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The acceptance of a report on Georgia by the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation
in Europe (OSCE) demonstrates its reluctance to recognize the new
realities resulting from the increasingly complex situation in the
Caucasus since 2008, preventing the OSCE from furthering peace in
the region, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, July 14,
according to RIA Novosti.
The resolution "uses worn-out propagandistic cliches about 'occupied
Georgian territories,'" the Foreign Ministry said.
"The majority of deputies in the Assembly (Parliamentary Assembly of
the OSCE) once again don't wish to objectively accept the realities
of the situation today in the Caucasus," the Foreign Ministry said
on its website. "Such an approach, unfortunately, deprives the OSCE
of the ability to make a constructive contribution to boosting peace
and stability in the region," the Ministry added.
"The Russian delegation firmly opposed this tendentious document,
declaring it absolutely unacceptable," the Ministry said.
Abkhazia's Foreign Ministry also condemned the OSCE resolution,
saying it did not take into account new realities and was based
on information presented only by the Georgian side. The call to
reintroduce European Union Mission observers in Abkhazia has no legal
basis and contradicts the text of the Medvedev-Sarkozy agreement,
the Abkhazian Foreign Ministry said.
Georgian forces attacked the breakaway region of South Ossetia on
August 8, 2008. Russia sent its forces into the region to protect the
citizens of South Ossetia, many of whom held Russian passports, and
expelled the Georgian forces after a five-day conflict. Russia then
extended formal recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia on August 26, 2008. Georgia then broke off diplomatic relations
with Russia and declared the two regions as occupied territories.
Both regions had been de facto independent since breaking away from
Tbilisi in the early 1990's after Georgia left the USSR in 1991.
The EU refuses to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South
Ossetia and supports the territorial integrity and sovereignty
of Georgia.