Tskhinvali Indignant at Saakashvili’s Refusal to Meet Putin, Kokoity, Bagapsh

Representative of the breakaway South Ossetian republic in the Russian Federation Dimitry Medoev described Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili’s refusal to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia – Sergey Bagapsh and Eduard Kokoity – in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi as the “unwillingness of the Georgian side to hold a dialogue with the parties concerned,” the Press and Information Committee of breakaway South Ossetia reported on April 4.    

“Unfortunately, we frequently observe this tendency, when the Georgian side rejects a peaceful resolution of the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict,” Medoev said.

President Saakashvili confirmed in an interview with Rustavi 2 television on April 3 that he rejected Moscow’s proposal to meet with Putin, Bagapsh and Kokoity in Sochi. “This kind of meeting will make sense only in the event that the meeting is well-prepared in advance. All meetings should have results,” Saakashvili said.

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