"POLICY OF GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES CAN RESULT IN A NATIONAL CATASTROPHE": SOUTH OSSETIAN COMMUNITY
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12:24 26.12.2006
A round-table discussion was held in the capital of South Ossetia,
Tskhinvali. The discussion titled "Russian Vector of Georgian Policy in
Sociopolitical Coordinates of Caucasus" was held at the office of the
South Ossetian branch of the Caucasian Institute for Democracy. Members
of youth movements, Georgian, Armenian and Russian communities in
South Ossetia, NGOs and reporters participated in the meeting.
After the discussion, the participants passed a statement. REGNUM
publishes the full text of it:
"For recent years, the Georgian-Russian relations have been
characterized by increasing tensions, causing anxiety and serious
concern with peoples of Caucasus.
Georgian authorities are trying to switch attention of the population
from problems of poverty, corruption, economic crisis, which are
consequences of failure of their own policy, to artificially formed
images of enemies in the person of South Ossetia and Abkhazia,
representing the Russian Federation as the main source of all their
problems.
Staking at force in its aspiration towards putting South Ossetia and
Abkhazia under its jurisdiction, Tbilisi has been involved in an
unprecedented militarization, concealing its provocations against
South Ossetia and Abkhazia by propagandist statements announcing
their peaceful intentions addressed to the West.
Rejecting the historic memory of good neighborhood and friendship,
Georgian leaders resort to the language of threats, establish an
unfavorable atmosphere and make null and void the years-long effort
in the conflict settlement. The policy pursued by Georgian leadership
can result in grave and unpredictable consequences for Georgia and
the Caucasian region in general.
Saakashvili’s aggressive policy makes suffer the whole Georgian
nation. People are suffering colossal losses, being deprived of
an opportunity to trade with Russia. South Ossetian Georgians live
in the atmosphere of permanent fear expecting another provocation
from Georgia.
Participants of the round-table discussion address the UN and OSCE
member-countries calling to condemn the dangerous Tbilisi policy aimed
at exacerbating the situation and aggravating hostility in Caucasus
and to take all measures in order to prevent from deterioration of
the situation, to give up intriguing and start solving the problems
of the Georgian people properly."
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