In Tskhinval, was drawn attention to very incorrect statements addressed to South Ossetia, which the acting head of the EU Observer Mission in Georgia Kate Fierron recently allowed herself.
“In an exclusive interview with Georgian television’s first channel, she stated that “food shortages arising from the new Russian customs regulations imposed on the Tskhinval occupation regime exacerbated the already difficult situation in the occupied region.” According to her, a particularly difficult situation has developed in Leningor, “since the crossing points to Georgia are closed,” said the press service of the office of the Plenipotentiary of the President of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement.
The Plenipotentiary’s office has noted that such a statement by the acting head of the Mission, whose mandate applies only to the territory of Georgia adjacent to South Ossetia, is at least an unlawful excess of his mandate, and in fact is false, deliberately offensive to South Ossetia.
“Not to mention that the statement about food shortages in South Ossetia is not true, in an effort to please the Georgian audience, Ms. Fierron used the words“ occupation regime ”,“ occupied region ”, invented by the clique Saakashvili (offensive to South Ossetia), which have no ties with the realities existing in South Ossetia, ”the press service said.
They added that Ms. Fierron, in order to confirm her idea that people had “access to goods in stores, as well as medicines,” was difficult to mention that people who came to Georgia (I had in mind the pensioners from Leningor district, who went to Georgia in January-February), "trying to buy medicine."
“At the same time, of course, she did not but notice that these pensioners brought with them to Georgia a lot of agricultural products from Leningor district. She did not mention that the border crossing points of South Ossetia and Georgia were closed due to the situation created by the Georgian side on the border in the vicinity of the village of Uista (Tsnelis),” the press service emphasized.
In the office of the plenipotentiary, they regretted that Ms. Fierron, as a representative of an important and authoritative international organization, allowed herself to make illegal and implausible statements in the spirit of Georgian political propaganda
