RUSSIAN SECURITY COUNCIL: ECONOMIC COMPONENT CONTRIBUTES TO SITUATION IN SOUTH OSSETIA
ARKA
Sep 4, 2008
YEREVAN, September 4. /ARKA/. Economic component has also contributed
to the situation in South Ossetia, Secretary of Russia’s Security
Council Nikolay Patrushev said.
Northern Caucasus and Central Asia are rich with carbohydrates, oil
and gas and the USA wishes to have access to them, Patrushev said
after the meeting of Committee of CSTO (Collective Security Treaty
Organization) security councils in Yerevan.
Apart from production, gas and oil need to be transported and for
this appropriate regimes are required in the region’s countries,
Patrushev said. "We remember how Saakashvili was brought to power. It
has nothing to do with democracy," Patrushev said.
"We have never denied the territorial integrity principle, but the
forms and methods it is achieved by may differ. A war against people
living on a territory, in South Ossetia in particular, genocide of
the people are inadmissible," Patrushev said.