Georgia's policy of military cooperation with the United States and a number of European countries leads to a new wave of tension and could blow up the peace that was established in 2008, South Ossetian foreign Minister Dmitry Medoev said in an interview with the Turkish newspaper "Cumhuriyet".
The South Ossetian delegation at the meetings in the framework of the Geneva Discussions and Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms (IPRM) after the events of 2008, each time proposes to sit at the negotiating table on delimitation and demarcation of the state border, said Presidential Envoy Murat Dzhioev at a briefing in Tskhinval.
Tbilisi should think several times before provoking crises on the border with South Ossetia, war correspondent of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company Evgeny Poddubny told the news agency “Res.”
According to him, a completely familiar handwriting of Western advisers is guessed in the actions of Georgia.
The aggravation of tension on the border of South Ossetia and Georgia is taking place at a difficult moment in international relations, Yuri Shevtsov, political scientist and director of the Center for European Integration (Minsk), told IA “Res”.
Russia is worried about the escalation of tension in the Transcaucasian region. The situation is dangerous, and there is a risk of further escalation of the conflict, said Franz Klintsevich, member of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security.
Atsamaz Bibilov, head of the South Ossetian Parliament’s Defense and Security Committee, called the actions of the Georgian police in the village of Uista (formerly Tsnelis) South Ossetia an open provocation aimed at escalating tensions in Transcaucasian region.
Atsamaz Bibilov visited the outskirts of the village of Uista, where the Georgian side is illegally building a roadblock, and on the spot got acquainted with the situation.
Georgian police should immediately leave the borders of the village of Tsnelis of South Ossetia, said Zaza Driaev, head of the South Ossetian Parliament’s Committee on Foreign Policy and Inter-Parliamentary Relations.
According to the deputy, it is necessary to warn the Georgian side about the inadmissibility of such steps and give them time to go beyond the borders of South Ossetia, and then post there.
"It will be fair if we set up our posts where the border of the South Ossetian Autonomous Region previously ran," Driaev said.
Republic of South Ossetia was proclaimed in 1990, and since then has had nothing to do with the territorial integrity of Georgia as a state. Therefore, when the United States or other UN states and international organizations affirm their recognition of the territorial integrity of Georgia, one should proceed from the composition, the territory in which Georgia entered the international community in 1992.
August 2008 Five days of war. 11 years later. Journalists are telling about the war in South Ossetia
Ashraf El Sabbah, Russian publicist, journalist and translator:
Despite the fact that 11 years have passed since the criminal events of the Saakashvili regime, I remember August 8, 2008 very vividly, since we flew from Moscow to Tbilisi at the nighton August 7 t- 8 and saw almost everything with our own eyes from the first minutes.
August 2008. Five days of the war. 11 years later. Russian journalists are telling about the war in South Ossetia
Each viewer of the Rossiya and TVC television channels knows his face in a helmet with the inscription “press”, his reports are almost always saturated with gunpowder and blood. Evgeny Poddubny, a military journalist:
August 8, 2008 is a day of endless tragedies and quiet hope. Every 10 minutes, my friends and I learned that one of our close friends had died or, on the contrary, had survived.
