Sergey Mironov, the Chairman of the Council of Federation, the upper house of the Russian Parliament, expressed regrets over the Georgian parliamentary delegation?s refusal to participate in the Parliamentary Assembly of Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in St. Petersburg and accused ?one of the employees? of the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi for ?negligence? which, as he put it, resulted in a failure to issue a visa to one of the members of the Georgian delegation.
The Georgian parliamentary delegation decided to boycott the CIS PA after the Russian Embassy in Tbilisi refused to issue an entry visa to MP Givi Targamadze, the Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Defense and Security.
?I regret that the Georgian delegation did not arrive [in St. Petersburg]. Because of the negligence of an employee in the Russian Embassy [in Tbilisi] we face an international scandal today,? Interfax news agency quoted Mironov as saying on November 17.
The Georgian delegation intended to present Tbilisi?s peace plan over South Ossetia at the CIS Parliamentary Assembly.
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