On the ongoing NATO exercise in Georgia
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia expresses deep regret about the fact that the NATO leadership happened to be unable to draw any conclusions from the tragic events of August 2008, which were a direct consequence of NATO’s flirting with the current Georgian regime. In this regard, the multinational NATO exercise held 6 May-1June on the territory of Georgia with the participation of its armed forces causes serious concerns.
It is absolutely clear that the recent statements made by leaders of some NATO member states, and first of all, the United States, about support to Georgia’s striving for entering NATO, were perceived by Georgian authorities as license granted for committing crimes such as the unprecedented perfidious and cruel aggression against the Republic of South Ossetia in August 2008. It is also worth reminding that not long before this, NATO exercise had been taking place in Georgia, and upon their completion, the Georgian armed forces were not sent back to their quarters, but to springboard for attack on the Republic of South Ossetia set at its borders.
The decision by the NATO Command to carry out similar actions in Georgia would rather be perceived as a political demarche aimed at demonstrating NATO’s solidarity with the Georgian regime which committed armed aggression against the Republic of South Ossetia in August 2008 and which is currently in a deep crisis.
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia once again calls on the NATO leadership, to the Organization’s member states, to sober-mindedly weight all possible risks of providing military support to Georgia, which is the main source of regional destabilization, and the feasibility of the policy of engaging an aggressor state into a military alliance.
