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Georgia Challenges Russia’s Victory in Security Council
The Resolution 1716 that the U.N. Security Council unilaterally passed on Friday sets forth a number of actions to steady the nerves of Georgia and Abkhazia and ease their battle for the soil of Kodori Gorge. But the actual effect of this move of the Security Council is stirring up another wave of rhetoric of Moscow and Tbilisi.
Indeed, the interpretation of Georgia materially differs from the one offered by Russia. The Security Council completely agreed with Moscow, reflecting “all key proposals of Russia” in the resolution, the RF Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced Friday. The resolution “unambiguously says that the reason of today’s aggravation of Georgian and Abkhazian relations is illegal actions of Tbilisi in the Kodori Gorge,” including violation of the Georgian-Abkhazian agreement and the Moscow agreement of 1994. Among other things, Lavrov said, the resolution demands that Georgia should pull out of Kodori Gorge.
But Georgia appears in no hurry to withdraw. In Georgia, they don’t agree that Moscow managed to win the world approval. Russia was pressing for two things, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili told the reporters Friday – unconditional condemnation of Georgia’s actions in Kodori Gorge and revival of the status-quo, which had existed before the police action in Upper Abkhazia. But it failed in the end, Saakashvili explained, adding, however, that the resolution has some disputable items and Georgia will proceed with consultations.
As to Kodori Gorge, Georgia won’t pull out of it, Saakashvili made clear. To the contrary, it will continue recovering its land. Nowadays, Georgia controls 30 percent of Abkhazia, but it will regain the whole control of it by peaceful negotiations, the president vowed.
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All the Article in Russian as of Oct. 16, 2006
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