Russia's United Nations Ambassador Vitaly Churkin
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U.N. Security Council to Focus on Georgia’s Claims to Russia
Urged by Georgia, the U.N. Security Council will focus on the situation in the area of its conflict with Abkhazia at the extraordinary meeting slated for April 23.
Russia’s ambassador to U.N. Vitaly Churkin confirmed the information. The meeting won’t be public, Churkin specified. Georgia’s Foreign Minister David Bakradze is expected to deliver the report.
Georgia blames on Russia the agression and the breach of U.N. Charter. According to Tbilisi, it was the fighter jet of Russia that shot down Hermes unmanned plane in Galsky district of Abkhazia one of these days. Georgia’s military showed a videotape that recorded the moment of plane’s destruction.
Georgia’s breakaway republic of Abkhazia claims that the jet of Abkhazia shot that plane.
In the telephone conversation with Georgia’s President Mikhail Saakashvili, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin drew attention to the general illegality of Georgia’s actions in the region. Any flights of aircraft above the territory of unrecognized republic violate the agreement of 1994, Putin specified.
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