Archive - 25/4/2013

Comment of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia in connection with the speech of Prime Minister of Georgia made at the spring session of PACE

April 23, 2013, Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili made a speech at the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and voiced the main trends and challenges in the foreign policy of Georgia. In particular, he said that "it is obvious to all, that 20 per cent of the country were occupied by Russia in 2008."

"There is nothing surprising or unexpected that Mikhail Saakashvili expressed his dissatisfaction with the speech by Bidzina Ivanishvili at the PACE session - on the contrary, it was expected, " said the South Ossetian Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev in his interview with IA "Res," commenting on the dissatisfaction of the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili with the speech of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili on Tuesday at the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

"There is nothing surprising or unexpected that Mikhail Saakashvili expressed his dissatisfaction with the speech by Bidzina Ivanishvili at the PACE session - on the contrary, it was expected, " said the South Ossetian Presidential Envoy for post-conflict settlement Murat Dzhioev in his interview with IA "Res," commenting on the dissatisfaction of the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili with the speech of Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili on Tuesday at the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.