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has said, having added that Russia exceeded the obligations within the frames of the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan, having withdrawn its troops from the positions occupied by them before the August war.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».
Chochiev has also reminded that there is an agreement between two independent states - Russia and South Ossetia proceeding from which, the Republic of South Ossetia itself will solve a question of withdrawal of the Russian peacekeeping troops. «While for South Ossetia there is any threat from hostile Georgia, the Russian military bases will be located here on the basis of the bilateral agreement», - Chochiev has underlined. He has also paid attention to the statement made by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Georgia Nino Kalandadze that Georgia will discuss in Geneva the question about access of the international observers to Abkhazia and South Ossetia. «This question has been never discussed, and will not be discussed in a format of the Geneva discussions», - the Plenipotentiary has concluded. As he has said, this issue will be resolved only within the frames of the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan.
