Dimitri Sanakoev’s visit to Brussels has demonstrated the European Parliament’s support for the Tbilisi-loyal South Ossetian provisional administration, Georgian Parliamentary Chairperson Nino Burjanadze said on June 29.
Sanakoev, head of the administration, addressed the 9th session of the EU-Georgian Parliamentary Cooperation Committee in Brussels on June 26.
“The meetings, which were held [in Brussels], show that the European Parliament not only accepts but also supports Tbilisi’s creation of the provisional administration in South Ossetia. This is a very important message,” Burjanadze told lawmakers in Parliament.
Meanwhile, South Ossetian secessionist leader Eduard Kokoity who is currently visiting Moscow, said in a political talk-show ‘Judge Yourself,’ aired by the Russian state-run television First Channel at primetime, that Sanakoev does not represents the Ossetian people.
The European Union, in a statement made at the OSCE Permanent Council in Vienna on June 14, welcomed the Georgian government’s attempts to engage in an “all-inclusive consultative process” with all the forces in South Ossetia.
The statement, however, added that this all-inclusive process “can only succeed if it is given sufficient time to unfold, and if it is accompanied by concrete confidence building measures.”
“In this respect, we are looking forward to learn more about the progress made regarding this very important process of dialogue in which representatives of all political and societal forces were invited to take part.”
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