EU CALLS ON TO ABSTAIN FROM MAKING ACCUSATIONS

Panorama.am
12:00 04/08/2009

European Union calls on Georgia and Southern Ossetia not to create
tension in the region and to guarantee the EU monitoring mission
members to conduct monitoring from both sides. A few days after that
statement, the Defense Ministry of Southern Ossetia announced that
gun firing was registered from Georgian side directed to a Ossetian
village.

"Euroepan Union is concerned about the mutual firing accusations
made recently and call on the sides to abstain from announcements
and accusations which will contribute to the tension," EU statement
stresses.

Note that a year has passed since the Georgian-Ossetian war.