Russia was ensuring and will be ensuring the security of Abkhazia and South Ossetia - Kalashnikov

Fri, 06/08/2021 - 17:53
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Russia today is assisting to ensure security on the territory of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and the countries that call it occupation should first return the foreign territories they have occupied. This opinion was expressed by Leonid Kalashnikov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots.

"We have been providing security [for Abkhazia and South Ossetia] just as we are providing security for many other countries that once lived in the same house, which lack it, and we will continue to do so," deputy said the TASS, commenting on the appeal of a number of members of the UN Security Council. to withdraw the Russian armed forces from Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as to revoke the recognition of their independence.

According to Kalashnikov, the same Great Britain, which joined this statement, first needs to withdraw its troops from Cyprus (the military bases of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, which form a separate overseas territory of Great Britain - note TASS), since it "just seized the territory of its former colony, appropriated it and made it its own property "while the Russian Federation helping the republics to defend themselves.

In turn, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Irina Yarovaya said that "it is unacceptable to demand that Russia violate the most important principles of international law - freedom, equality and justice." "In addition, by virtue of the principle of equality and self-determination of peoples, enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, all nations have the right to freely determine their political status without outside interference and to pursue their economic, social and cultural development, and every state is obliged to respect this right," - she told reporters. She called the statement of seven members of the UN Security Council "pseudo-diplomacy, similar to bullying."

On Wednesday, a number of members of the UN Security Council (Estonia, France, Ireland, Norway, Great Britain and the United States) issued a joint statement on the events of August 2008 in South Ossetia. Russia's actions in it are called illegal, Moscow is also accused of violating human rights. The countries that made the statement called on Russia to "immediately withdraw its military and security forces, and to revoke the recognition of independence" of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Earlier, Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, said that attempts by Western countries to raise the topic of Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the UN Security Council are a manifestation of a refusal to recognize objective reality.

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