The hushing up of the war crimes of the Georgian authorities, the murders of hundreds of civilians and peacekeepers in South Ossetia in August 2008, the ignoring of the results of the Tagliavini commission, which are "inconvenient" for the official Tbilisi and its Western partners, are a poorly concealed attempt to deny responsibility for aggression.
This is stated in the commentary by the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry in connection with the statement of a number of the UN Security Council member states, made after a closed meeting in connection with the 17th anniversary of the August 2008 events.
The Foreign Ministry has noted that this statement, which is of a "ritual nature", like a dozen similar ones made by "friends of Georgia" on the anniversary of the tragic events in South Ossetia, reproduces the standard theses about "annexation", the so-called territorial integrity of Georgia and the illegal military presence of the Russian armed forces.
"In violation of the provisions of the UN Charter, including those proclaiming the equality of rights of large and small nations, the tribune of the international organization, unfortunately, is actually occupied by the so-called friends of Georgia and has become a mouthpiece for the dissemination of biased information and misleading the world community," the department has noted.
Blocking the opportunity for South Ossetian and Abkhaz representatives to express their opinions from the UN platform is a gross violation of the rights of the peoples of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and obvious evidence of a policy of double standards, the Foreign Ministry added.
"Those who do not want to come to terms with the existing realities will sooner or later have to admit that South Ossetia has nothing to do with the Georgian state with its phantom pains about the territorial integrity. South Ossetia is the internationally recognized state, the sovereign status of which cannot be a subject of discussion," the South Ossetian Foreign Ministry has concluded.
