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Saakashvili Yet to Undertake Not to Use Force, Lavrov Said
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is yet to undertake on behalf of Georgia not to attack South Ossetia and Abkhazia, only the European Union has assumed the respective obligations, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the RF Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Lavrov made the respective statement during the news conference held after the negotiations with his South Korean counterpart.
“By the way, he hasn’t clearly and directly assumed these obligations yet, the European Union has done it for him,” Lavrov said. “From him, we have demanded one thing – to undertake not to use force against South Ossetia and Abkhazia.”
Lavrov said any verbal pledges of Georgia around the events in the Caucasus won’t satisfy Russia. “We don’t care about the scraps of paper that Mr Saakashvili produces from his pocket and shows to journalists.”
Under the agreement that Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev and France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy attained in Moscow September 8, the European Union is the guarantor for the nonuse of force against South Ossetia and Abkhazia. “We will insist that our partners in the European Union will meet this obligation,” Lavrov emphasized.
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