Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin
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U.N. Security Council Passed No Resolution on Abkhazia, South Ossetia
The U.N. Security Council hasn’t passed any documents by results of the meeting dedicated to the situation in Georgia’s breakaway Abkhazia and South Ossetia, said Russia’s ambassador to U.N. Vitaly Churkin.
The U.N. Security Council met for the extraordinary sitting by request of Tbilisi that blamed on Russia the attempts to annex Georgia’s territory. Georgia was expected to show the video in evidence of Russia’s involvement in shooting down its spy drone in Abkhazia on April 20, 2008.
Four or five members of the Security Council took the floor during the meeting, Russia’s ambassador said, without giving any details, including about the speech of Georgia’s Foreign Minister David Bakradze, who was to present the matter to the Security Council.
The video that allegedly proves that the missile fired by MiG-29 of Russia’s Air Force had shot down Georgia’s drone wasn’t shown during the meeting, Churkin specified. That video had been distributed in the U.N. headquarters before the sitting of the Security Council.
The meeting, Churkin said, allowed to clarify to colleagues the essence of Moscow decisions for certain readjustment of relations between the executive bodies of Russia and executive bodies of de-facto authorities of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
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