Archive - 22/6/2011

In his interview to the Georgian magazine "Тbiliselebi" the ambassador of France Eric Furnje has declared: «In Georgia responsibility for the war is being searched not where it should be searched for. Who has launched the war? Who the first has started firing Tskhinval? You cannot rewrite the history and search for responsibility in other place, instead of its real location. Digging a bit more deeply one should demand explanations not in France or in any other country, but from the Menshevist republic which in 1921 exterminated the Ossetian population». This fair statement has caused a storm of indignation among the Georgian political ersatz-elite. A chairman of the interim parliamentary commission on rehabilitation of the territorial integrity of Georgia Shota Malashkhia declares that «the ambassador of France in Georgia Eric Furnje does not know the modern history of Georgia».

Russia has not simply fulfilled, but has exceeded the obligations within the frames of the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan. It has been declared the news agency "Res" by the Plenipotentiary of the President of the RSO on post conflict settlement Boris Chochiev, making comments on the statement of the speaker of the Georgian Parliament David Bakradze that Russia is forced to fulfill the taken obligations. «The Russian peacemakers will have to leave their stationing places only after a legally obliging document of non-use of force by Georgia against South Ossetia and Abkhazia is adopted», - Chochiev has said, having added that Russia exceeded the obligations within the frames of the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan, having withdrawn its troops from the positions occupied by them before the August war. Chochiev has noticed that today, considering this fact, South Ossetia has to ask the international community to force Georgia to sign the legally obliging document on non-use of force. As regards the statement of Bakradze about «strengthening of the international monitoring in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and also about the withdrawal of the Russian military bases from these republics», Chochiev has declared that, under the Medvedev-Sarkozy agreement, the full withdrawal of the Russian peacekeeping troops from the zones adjoining to South Ossetia and Abkhazia will be carried out within ten days after expansion of the international mechanisms in this area. «We mean the area adjoining to South Ossetia, but not the territory itself, - the Plenipotentiary has specified. - so I advise Bakradze to read these documents better and more attentively».