The visit of the PACE Monitoring Committee David Wilshire to the Embassy of the Republic of South Ossetia in the Russian Federation is aimed at showing the interest of this organization in receiving information not only from the Georgian side, reported political science expert Inal Pliev. “I do hope that PACE has changed its initial policy of complete ignoring of the reality and that the information provided by the South Ossetian side would be reflected in the report “On the consequences of the war between Georgia and Russia” to be presented by David Wilshire and his colleague Matias Eorsi at the Assembly session on 28 April”, said Pliev. According to the expert, “the true discontent of Tbilisi is not in the fact that the meeting was held at the Embassy, but that the meeting could have take place at all.
Georgia is trying to unilaterally control the flow of “true” information about the events in August 2008 and the Georgian-Ossetian relations in general”. “And hence, representatives of European organizations, including the PACE reporters, are deprived of the right to learn about other that the Georgia viewpoint”. “Lately, the whims of Georgia seem to have a reverse effect”, concluded the expert.
