Comment by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia in connection with statements by the UN Security Council member states
Comment by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of South Ossetia in connection with statements by the UN Security Council member states
We drew attention to the statement made by a number of the UN Security Council member-states, which was made after of the closed-door meeting dedicated to the 17th anniversary of the events of August 2008.
The statement, which appears to be a “ritual” one, similar to dozens made by “friends of Georgia” on another anniversary of the events tragic for South Ossetia, reproduces clichs about the “annexation”, the so-called territorial integrity of Georgia and illegal presence of the Russian armed forces.
Silencing of war crimes committed by the Georgian authorities, murders of hundreds of civilians and peacekeepers in South Ossetia in August 2008, as well as ignoring the results of Tagliavini Commission’s work, which are “inconvenient” for the official Tbilisi and its Western partners, are nothing else but a poorly concealed attempt to deny responsibility for the aggression.
Unfortunately, in violation of the provisions of the UN Charter, including those proclaiming the equality of the rights of large and small nations, the rostrum of the international organization has actually been occupied by the so-called friends of Georgia and has become a mouthpiece for spreading biased information and misleading the world community. Blocking South Ossetian and Abkhaz representatives from expressing their opinions from the UN platform is a gross violation of the rights of the peoples of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and an obvious evidence of the policy of double standards.
Those who do not want to come to terms with the existing realities will sooner or later have to admit that South Ossetia has nothing to do with the Georgian state with its phantom pains about territorial integrity. South Ossetia is an internationally recognized state, the sovereign status of which cannot be a subject of discussion.
