South Ossetia considers the report of the Special Representative of the UN Secretary General Walter Kaelin as another product of double standards policy, stated the Special Representative for Post-Conflict Settlement Boris Chochiev. Commenting on the Report voiced by Kaelin at the 13th UN session on human rights, Chochiev noted that the report created an impressions that "Kaelin, who visited South Ossetia in November 2009, spoke with indignation about Georgia authorities when he saw ruined houses and schools, and Kaelin, who voiced his report in Switzerland, are different people" "We fully understand that no one will allow anyone to tell the whole truth about things seen in South Ossetia. But I did not think that he would not dare telling at the session things that he described in his report after his visit here in November 2009", said the Special Representative.
Chochiev assumed that Kaelin, as many official representatives of international organizations did, will tell the truth after leaving his official post end of this year: "Throughout 20 years of my experience I often met with such examples: UN, OSCE or other organizations' officials said something, and then, when they resigned from their organizations, they said something different. I would consider Walter Kaelin among those. Here, he said one thing, he put it differently in his press-release, and third variant was voiced in the report at the UN session".
Chochiev underlined that while his visit to Tskhinval in November 2009, Kaelin appreciated the efforts of the South Ossetian authorities in the rehabilitation works and the fact that the Georgian-Ossetian border in Leningor and Znaur districts was not closed. "Every month, about 1,600 residents of Leningor district are traveling back and forth between South Ossetia and Georgia. While here, he noted that the residents of Leningor district could hardly be considered as displaced persons, since they have the possibility to freely come to South Ossetia, work on their lands and go back to Georgia with their harvests gathered. Kaelin noted that the residents had problems with gas and water supply and that these problems came from the south, literally", underscored Chochiev.
According to him, the UN representative in his report did not have the right not to inform this Organization about 100,000 Ossetians "evicted in 1989-1992 from Georgia because of their ethnic origin".
"In his report Kaelin also speaks about South Ossetia authorities violating international humanitarian law by restricting the access of the population to humanitarian aid. In this regard I would like to emphasize that an international agency willing to assist the affected population does not think about the format for delivering the assistance, but about the possibility to bring the assistance as the ICRC does it. The UN is bargaining with us insisting on the deliver of the assistance through Georgia. They politicize the problem and are actually violating the humanitarian law themselves", stated Chochiev.
In conclusion, the Special Representative said he believed that representatives of international organizations "like Kaelin and others like him" should not be allowed to visit South Ossetia. "They are afraid of telling the truth and they will never write anything objective about us. They will be able to tell the truth only after they are cured against double-standard policy", said the Special Representative.
