North Ossetian Leader Warns Ossetians Against Visiting Georgia
The leader of Russia?s North Ossetian Republic Teimuraz Mamsurov called on citizens of the republic to refrain from visiting Georgia in view of the absence of ?guarantees against political provocations? in Georgia country, the Russian news agencies Regnum and Kavkazky Uzel, and the South Ossetian Press and Information Committee, reported on February 7.
?Georgia has resumed an anti-Ossetian campaign and the Ossetians living there are again becoming the targets of criminal attacks and of illegal persecution by Georgian law-enforcement agencies,? Mamsurov said.
?The recent developments, the facts of unmotivated pressure against peaceful residents of North Ossetia who are visiting the territory of Georgia on personal business, make us question the statements made by the Georgian leadership regarding the rule of law and protection of human rights in this country. A state where the people are subject to persecution based on their ethnic background, and the impunity of law enforcers, which, according to international human rights watchdogs, is a serious problem ? cannot be considered either democratic or safe for the present,? the North Ossetian leader said.
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