UNRECOGNIZED REPUBLICS APPEALED TO UN
PanARMENIAN.Net
25.12.2006 16:49 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The commonwealth "For Democracy and Human Rights"
unifying Transdnistria, South Ossetia and Abkhazia issued a joint
position that reached the UN. The reason was the GUAM’s proposal to
introduce the issue on frozen conflictsin the UN agenda.
Nezavisimaya Gazeta published Transdnistrian Foreign Minister Valery
Litskay’s letter which says in part.
"For the first time the GUAM member states try to apply the effect of
collective influence to make UN draw sanctions against unrecognized
republics. Unlike the other international organizations the UN
regulations provide for both appliance of economic sanctions and
military involvement, so-called compulsion to peace. We have organized
a memorandum and requested Russia as a guarantor state to circulate
the document in the UN as well as initiate discussion of the issue
with taking into account our position as well."
In Litskay’s opinion the memorandum revealed the true picture of the
conflicts: wars and blockades imposed by Kishinev and Tbilisi. "The
facts furnished in the document are meant to trigger the mechanism of
UN sanctions which will not however be targeted against Tiraspol. With
Moscow’s support the UN’s stance on frozen conflicts has changed. As
result, the accusers – Moldova and Georgia – could be transformed in
the accused. Thus, these states recalled their proposal.
The issue of conflicts available on the CIS territory was not raised
at the UN General Assembly and it’s for most part conditioned by the
memorandum of the unrecognized republics. This is the first step
toward the international rostrum and international recognition,"
the FM underscored.